ICC Note:
“While Turkey plans to replace its current constitution with a new civilian one, non-Muslim Turkish nationals seek to guarantee the protection of their rights other than the outdated Lausanne Treaty,” Al Arabiya reports.
4/9/2011 Turkey (Al Arabiya) – While Turkey plans to replace its current constitution with a new civilian one, non-Muslim Turkish nationals seek to guarantee the protection of their rights other than the outdated Lausanne Treaty.
Lausanne Treaty was provided for the independence of Turkey on July 24, 1923 and for the protection of Greek Orthodox Christian minority in the country, as well as the Muslim minority in Greece.
In 1924, the treaty was ratified by Greece, Britain, Italy and Japan, and later it was registered in the League of Nations treaty series, before the formation of the United Nations in 1945.
Reober Koptas, editor-in-chief of Armenian Weekly Agos, told the Turkey-based paper Today’s Zaman, that non-Muslims minorities do not want their rights to be guaranteed by foreign countries, which he says has negative impacts and repercussions in the country.
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“We want no more and no less than this. We want to become simple citizens of Turkey. We want to become citizens of a state we have failed to be close to until now,” he added.
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