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150 While it was clear that Greek was the language of Greeks and the Greek state, the Turkish-speaking and the rest of the not Greek-speaking refugees were found in very difficult place. They were often judged as national suspects, reaching the point to feel shame for an important piece of their culture, and therefore, for an important piece of themselves. Thus, through the education and under the effect of other factors, they resigned from a lot of culture elements of their Community. For the Muslim women of Thrace the situation developed rather differently. They did not need to be moved. However, the borders were moved and they turned up to be citizens of a national state with different mainstream language and religion and they became minority, with concrete rights that were based in the Treaty of Lausanne. Their Community structures were recognized and they continued existing. Therefore the children of minority Muslims of Thrace continued studying in the Community schools that were managed from the Muslim clergy. However, since beginning, contradictions created between innovators that were supporters of the Turkish national ideas and conservatives, who were supporters of national perceptions, regarding the control of education of minority. In the beginning of 1950 decade, because of the improvement of Greek-Turkish relations - mainly because of the attendance of both countries in the NATO - the innovators prevailed and the minority educational system acquired a Turkish character. The Turkish school, existing under the control of individuals that were supporters of Turkish nationalistic ideas, taught the Turkish language not only in children that had the Turkish language as maternal, but also in children that in their families spoke “Pomak” – a southern Bulgarian dialect - but also gipsy, cultivating systematically the feeling of belonging in Turkish nation. After the period 1955 - 1975, it was sought to exclude any kind of interference of Turkey in the minority education and to erase the elements related with the culture of the Turkish national idea. The improvisation of the application of this system resulted in a remarkable decrease of quality of the minority education system. Studying the education of minority Muslims of Thrace during the period 1923- 1995, we observe that the minority education system, under the guidance of persons supporting the Turkish national ideology, was improved considerably and it reached the point to offer to the students a modern education. It contributed considerably in the homogenisation of Thracian Muslims and in the culture of perception that they belong in the Turkish nation, facilitating thus, those who decided to immigrate in Turkey, to subsume smoothly in the Turkish society and economy. There are three basic ascertainment that I want to stress: 1. The Greek public education played a decisive role in the integration in the Hellenic reality of the refugees, and in their homogenisation with the local Greeks, in the boundaries of the Greek nation. 2. The minority education contributed decisively in the culture of Turkish national identity in the Thracian Muslim minority. This system created important conditions for their integration in the Turkish society, depriving them, however, substantially the possibility of integration in the society and the economy of the state in which they were citizens, condemning them thus in marginalisation, “ghettoisation” and social exclusion. 3. The religion that constituted also the basic criterion for the exchange of populations appears to be, if not the vehicle, sure the key that opened the door of integration placing the conditions of homogenisation. The religion constituted the main criterion of belonging in the nation. 80 years have passed since about 2 million persons were compelled to abandon their hearts, to move, even to thousands of kilometres away, and to rebuild their lives from the beginning. Opposite interests, different estimates, disagreements and litigations will always exist. It’s not possible, however, persons to be killed or to be persecuted because they have other language and other religion, because they belong in another nation. We, the children and the grandchildren of persons that for these reasons were turned away 80 years ago, let’s play a leading part in spreading over of this message. Population Exchange Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de L’<strong>Europe</strong>
MOUDAINA BAND & ÇAKMAKLI CLARINET ................................................................................. Hüseyin Türker Değirmenler Moudania Municipality Council Member Since I am a child of Crete origin, I have observed the Turkish-Greek relations throughout my all life carefully. After the Turkish war of Independence in 1923, the Treaty of Lausanne was signed and together with this Agreement a protocol was also signed connected with an exchange of Turkish and Greek People. According to this protocol Muslim Turkish people and Orthodox Greek people were exchanged with each other and they would never come back to their homeland again. One morning I had woken up with the call to prayer. I hadn’t finished my breakfast yet. I didn’t know why but the church bells began to ring continuously. I felt that some strange things would happen. As soon as I put on my clothes I went out. I walked towards the plane tree. Greeks and Turkish people had gathered to understand what was happening. Venizelos and Mustafa Kemal had reached an agreement. Therefore we (the Turkish people) would abandon Crete and would not be allowed to come back again. Both of the communities were bewildered by these decisions. Everybody was rushing from one place to another and trying to find out whether this news was true or not. We were surprised at this bad news because people were accepted like goods as if they had no thoughts and wills. They had to leave their homeland where they had lived for three centuries. In order to settle there, they had to sacrifice many people so they felt as if they were unfaithful to their ancestors. In those years they had struggled to be able to live there and lost a lot of things. Now this society sharing common fate didn’t exist. Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de L’<strong>Europe</strong> We (the Turks) haven’t explained Atatürk’s principle and our devotion to these principles to the Greeks clearly. We can neither give nor get any inches of this soil that was determined by Atatürk’s ‘’Misak-ı Milli’’. National Soil Politics has adjusted to this principle, nothing contradicting with this principle has ever been done or could be done. One of Atatürk’s sayings ‘’ Peace at home, Peace in the World’’ is our guarantee for this principle. This devotion shows Turkish people’s point of view about Cyprus, continent and air shelf and armed islands. None of the enmity includes wars. Consequently, there must be peace in Mediterranean so, our Misak-ı Milli border can be in safety and our existence can maintain day by day as a whole. Why didn’t we fight in the second World War? Why didn’t we accept Dodecanese Islands offered to us? Because, we don’t need new land, new confusion, new pain. We only need to advance and together with the West we need to catch happiness and live in peace. Global world must bring peace not wars. Our politicians must take lessons from our history, they must show respect to themselves and their rights, they must present peace to our society and they must themselves also live in peace. Population Exchange
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GREETINGS
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Hereby we would like to present the
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about common affairs is the most im
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academicians, university students,
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18 Empathy & Sympathy, Peace Educat
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20 AEGEE DECLARATION OF GREEK & TUR
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22 SOCIAL PROBLEMS POLITICS ECONOMY
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40 Once upon a time, there were two
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42 After the meeting, Mr. Tükmen w
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46 Ever since our launch date, AKUT
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52 The role of the NGOs is to bring
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56 VIDEO DOCUMENTING THE OPERATION
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62 countries and either publishing
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64 WORLD ENVIRONMENT WEEK Sharing e
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68 We can say that all these effort
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70 THE LASTING PEACE DEPENDS ON FIV
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76 kayafest youth & culture festiva
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80 PRESS RELEASE ON KAYAFEST ......
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82 to our minds to realise this eve
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90 story of “Lütfiye Nine” abo
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92 dancers, and artists from both c
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98 trying, loving and loving. That
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