Talk:The Greeks of Imbros and Tenedos

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[edit] Citations on the Greeks of Imbros and Tenedos:

Human Rights Watch: The Greeks of Turkey (from the “Denying Human Rights and Ethnic Identity” series of Human Rights Watch) "The Greek community in Turkey is dwindling, elderly and frightened. Its population has declined from about 110,000 at the time of the signing of the Lausanne Treaty in 1923 to about 2,500 today. A Helsinki Watch mission visited Turkey in October 1991 and found that the government there continues to violate the human rights of the Greek minority. These acts include harassment by police; restrictions on free expression; discrimination in education involving teachers, books and curriculum; restrictions on religious freedom; limitations on the right to control charitable institutions; and the denial of ethnic identity."

Lonely Planet Guidebook:"Although exempted from the 1920's population exchanges, the exclusively Greek inhabitants have been driven out over the last 30 years..."-Referring to Imbros island.

German Wikipedia (In German Language) [[1]]

Site on the Istanbul Pogrom [[2]]

The Treaty of Lausanne [[3]]

The list is not exhaustive....

I hope that my citations and sources can back up this article that was created by me. I think that deleting this article only because it is about a allegedly controversial topic would be a shame, and merging it would rid the article of its point... it was meant to be a seperate article with more in depth detail on the subject. I made and improved this article, and obviously wish for it to remain...Globo 10:54, 9 March 2006 (UTC)