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............................................................................................... Giorgos Mavrommatis
Giorgos Mavrommatis was born in Komotini in 1965 and from 1983 lives in
Thessaloniki. He studied Marketing and Pedagogic and he is a Ph.D Candidate
in the Panteion University of Athens. His main field of work and research is the
sociology and education of minority groups. He is member of the Minority Groups
Research Centre - KEMO (www.kemo.gr) and Northern Greece coordinator of
the N.G.O.”Antigone” (www.antigone.gr), Greek National Focal Point of the
European Monitoring Centre on Racism, Xenophobia and anti-Semitism
(www.eumc.at)
........................................................................................... Konstantinos Tsitselikis
Konstantinos Tsitselikis studied international law and human rights in the
Universities of Thrace (Greece), Thessaloniki (Greece) and Strasbourg (France).
His Ph.D deals with minority linguistic rights in Europe and Greece. He worked
for the Council of Europe, the European Commission, the United Nations and
the OSCE on human rights, minorities and democratisation. He is lecturer in
international law at the Law School of the University of Thrace (Greece) and
Administrative Secretary of the Minority Groups Research Centre (KEMO). He
has published and edited books, articles and studies on minority and human
rights issues. His ongoing research project regards Islam in Greece.
............................................................................................................ Hercules Millas
Hercules Millas was born and brought up in Turkey and he currently lives in
Greece. He has a Ph.D. degree in political science (Ankara University, 1998)
and a B.Sc. in civil engineering (Robert College, Istanbul, 1965). Between 1990-
1995 he contributed in establishing the Greek literature department at Ankara
University and was teaching Greek literature and history. Between 1999-2000 he
taught history of Turkish literature at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki.
He presently teaches Turkish literature and history of Turkish political thought
at the Aegean University in Rhodes, Greece. He is a member of various NGOs
in Turkey and Greece mostly involved in Greek-Turkish relations. He received
the Abdi Ipekçi Peace and Friendship Prize in 1992 and later on in 2001 together
with the Greek-Turkish Forum. His latest books are: Türk Romanında Öteki (The
Other in Turkish Novel, in Turkish, 2000), Εικόνες Ελλήνων και Τούρκων (The
Images of Greeks and Turks, in Greek, 2001) and Do’s and Don’t’s for Better
Greek-Turkish Relations, in English, Greek and Turkish, 2002
.......................................................................................................... Labros Baltsiotis
Labros Baltsiotis was born in Athens in 1966 and is currently working as a senior
investigator at the Office of the Greek Ombudsman. He is a founding member
of KEMO. He has previously worked as a teacher in Western Thrace minority
elementary schools and practiced the law mainly involved in minorities and
human rights cases. He obtained the diplôme of history from EHESS, Paris
(L’albanophonie dans l’Etat grec). He is currently working on his doctorate
thesis (“The Albanian Muslim Tchams during the Interwar”). He is co-author
with K. Tsitselikis of “The Minority Education in Thrace”. He has published
articles concerning Western Thrace and the diverse linguistic communities of
Greece.
........................................................................................................... Nükhet Adıyeke
Nükhet Adıyeke was born in İzmir in 1964. She has received her doctoral
degree in İzmir. Afterwards she started her job as a teaching member at Mersin
University, Faculty of Sciences and Letters, Department of History in the
beginning of 1996. Adıyeke has become “Associate Professor” in November 2000.
Her academic studies and fields of interests: Turkish and Greek Relations, Crete
under the Ottoman Sovereignty, Muslim Congregations in Greece before the
Pact of Lausanne, Non-Muslim Congregations in the Ottoman Social Structure.
She published many books on population exchange and Crete.
Population Exchange Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de L’Europe