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The Ones Expatriated from the Greek Citizenship
03.06.2005
According to the article written by Klaus Hillenbrand and published in the newspaper “die Tageszeitung” on 19. May in 2005, the Greek Ministry of the Interior announced that a total of 46.638 Turks from the Western Thrace and 12 Islands had been expatriated from the Greek citizenship due to the Citizenship Law, which had been valid until the year 1...
Greece had annulled the citizenships of 46638 persons!
25.05.2005
The state made public for the first time through official numbers:The citizenship of 46638 persons had been annulled! The member of Parliament, Ilhan Ahmet, had asked in his question motion he had submitted to the Parliament on the 20. April in 2005 (10097/ 20-4-2005) how many persons had lost their citizenship, and what kind of initiatives had ...
Report on human rights of the US-State Department published
26.03.2005
In the introduction of the report published by the office for democracy, work and human rights of the US State Department it is stated that the living standard of the people has generally improved, but the freedom of associations and the freedom of worship for the ethnic minorities continue to be very strictly limited. The report contains invest...
GHM and MRG-G condemn the ruling of Greece's Supreme Court
21.02.2005
GREEK HELSINKI MONITOR (GHM) MINORITY RIGHTS GROUP-GREECE (MRG-G) Address: P.O. Box 60820, 15304 Glyka Nera Telephone: (+30) 210.347.22.59. Fax: (+30) 210.601.87.60 e-mail: office@greekhelsinki.gr website: http://www.greekhelsinki.gr PRESS RELEASE 19 January 2005 TOPIC: TURKISH AND MACEDONIAN ASSOCIATIONS BANNED IN GREECE Gre...
MHRMC Condemns Statements by Greek President Kostis Stephanopoulos During Visit to Belgium
07.02.2005
February 5, 2005 Press Release The Macedonian Human Rights Movement of Canada (MHRMC) condemns the statements made by the President of Greece, Kostis Stephanopoulos, regarding the Republic of Macedonia during his recent visit to Belgium. The President was quoted as saying that "FYROM (Macedonia) threatens Greece culturally and nationally...
Joan protests at greek human rights abuses
26.01.2005
Press Release Brussels, 20.1.05 Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya Euro-MP Bernat Joan is to protest to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg about ongoing human rights abuses in Greece. The Catalan Euro-MP and Vice President of the European Free Alliance is concerned about ongoing state backed intolerance and discrimination par...
The Greek Prime Minister's Press Conference in Brussels
18.12.2004
Brussels, 17 December 2004 We did well. We have met all our goals, stated Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis in a press conference he gave in Brussels this afternoon after the end of the European Council Summit meeting. The first goal, stated the Prime Minister, was to help make our neighbourhood a European neighbourhood and the second, t...
President Papadopoulos Satisfied with EU Summit Decision on Turkey
18.12.2004
Brussels, 17 December 2004 (23:47 UTC+2) Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos has said he is satisfied with the outcome of the EU summit in Brussels, which decided to give Turkey a date to commence accession negotiations. ''We put forward our demands and I think today's decision satisfies our demands to a great extent,'' he told a press c...
Athens and Ankara strengthen ties
18.12.2004
Decades of hostility between Greece and Turkey have mellowed into good-neighbourly relations in recent years, the BBC's Europe correspondent Chris Morris reports, as the European Union hammers out a deal to start EU accession talks with Ankara. How times have changed. Back in 1996, Greece and Turkey came to the brink of war in a dispute over...
ECRI round table on the fight against racism in Greece
17.11.2004
Strasbourg, 16.11.2004 - The fight against racism and xenophobia will be the main theme of a round table organised by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance of the Council of Europe (ECRI), in the framework of its programme of action on reinforcing relations with civil society, on Thursday 18 November in Athens. ECRI's report...
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