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Evripidis Stylianidis: ‘Where there’s even one Greek, there’s all of Greece’

09.08.2021

ABTTF President: ‘If Stylianidis says that every Greek person living in different countries represents the whole of the Greek nation and culture, how come he continues to impose the term ‘Muslim Minority’ by referring to the Treaty of Lausanne and denies the ethnic Turkish identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace living in his own country?’

New Democracty Party (NEA) Rodopi MP Evripidis Stylianidis addressed the deputies of Greek origin that are working in the United States, Canada, Africa, Australia and Europe at the occasion of the 13th Meeting of the World Hellenic Inter-Parliamentary Association which was held in Athens. 

Addressing the deputies of Greek origin that are working as deputies in different countries at the meeting which took place within the Greek Parliament, Stylianidis said the following: ‘We represent different states, but a womb that gives birth to a great civilisation and to the same nation’. Indicating that ‘the Greek State may have experienced crises and difficulties. (...) Our nation is timeless and a global success because it represents a civilisation with roots that are above 3,000 years’, Stylianidis added as follows: ‘Where there’s even one Greek, there’s all of Greece. Our claim is to mobilise him, to take advantage of him and to benefit from his good intentions, experience, mentality and network for the benefit of our little State. Thus we will make Greece great again’. 

With respect to the speech given by Stylianidis to deputies of Greek origin working in other countries in which he indicated that it should not be forgotten that they are representing the Greek nation and culture, Halit Habip Oğlu, President of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) made the following statement: ‘It is only natural that Stylianidis demanded Greek deputies who were born in Greece and are now deputies in the parliaments of different countries not to forget that they are part and representative of the Greek nation and culture. Indeed, each individual is part of the country where he lives with different ethnicities, languages and cultures, but he is part of the nation to which his ethnicity and roots belong. However, I would like to ask the following to Stylianidis: If Stylianidis says that every Greek person living in different countries represents the whole of the Greek nation and culture, how come he continues to impose the term ‘Muslim Minority’ by referring to the Treaty of Lausanne and denies the ethnic Turkish identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace living in his own country?’