Turks of Greek Dodecanese face strong assimilation

[Annihilus]

Turks of Greek Dodecanese face strong assimilation



The Turkish minority in Greece's Dodecanese island group faces the threat of "strong" assimilation, according to a European minority advocacy group.

The islands are home to a Turkish-Muslim minority of around 6,000 people.

Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Gosta Toft, vice president of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), underlined the importance of native language education for the future of the Turkish minority in the Dodecanese.

"If they do not learn the language [Turkish] in school, then we will have strong assimilation, and that is what happening now," said Toft, who is himself a member of the German minority living in Denmark.

Toft, in Turkey's Aegean Izmir province last week to take part in a symposium about the problems of Turks in the Dodecanese, said there are bilingual schools for German students in Denmark financed by the Danish state. But the Dodecanese lacks such bilingual schools for its native Turks, he said.

"[In Denmark] it is the opposite of what happened in Greece," he said.

Toft said Greece recognizes neither the Turkish minority in the Dodecanese islands nor that in Western Thrace.

Greece's Western Thrace region is also home to a Turkish-Muslim minority of around 150,000 people.

"They have to accept the Turkish minority, that is a fact. If they do not, then the international society has to put pressure on Greece to change the situation," he stressed.

Toft said the solution lies in establishing dialogue, arguing: "We have to find a way to take up dialogue between the minority and the Greek state."

FUEN, founded in 1949 in Paris, is an umbrella group that unites more than 90 national minorities and language communities in 35 countries and it is the largest umbrella organization of Europe's local minorities.

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[Petros Houhoulis]

Turks of Greek Dodecanese face strong assimilation
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Good for them. Why should they want to be canines? Most likely they are Turkified Greeks, much like many Anatolians are...

said Toft, who is himself a member of the German minority living in Denmark.

In how many minorities does this idiot belong to!!!

[Doug Stanhope]

Good for them. Why should they want to be canines? Most likely they are Turkified Greeks, much like many Anatolians are...



In how many minorities does this idiot belong to!!!

Are you from the Dodecanese? Specifically, Kos, or Rhodes, were these Turks reside? I am. I can tell you that these Turks are not Turkicized Greeks. They are Turkish settlers from Anatolia, who came over after the conquest of these islands by the Ottomans in 1522-23. Not everything in life is about us Greeks!

[Kamal900]

The irony of this article is stunning..when Turks force others to assimilate then it's all fine and dandy, and yet, the remnants of the Turkish(Orcish) hordes that are still living in Greece are facing assimilation is a big no-no.

"My name is Mehmet Ongolo, and I'm living in of the Aegean islands of Greece"

[catgeorge]

Alien settlers that need to be fed to Aegean fish.

[Doug Stanhope]

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[Doug Stanhope]

The irony of this article is stunning..when Turks force others to assimilate then it's all fine and dandy, and yet, the remnants of the Turkish(Orcish) hordes that are still living in Greece are facing assimilation is a big no-no.

"My name is Mehmet Ongolo, and I'm living in of the Aegean islands of Greece"

When did the Ottomans force people to become Turks? If that were the case, there wouldn't have survived any remnants of the Greek language or Christianity after 500 years of their rule. The truth is, as long as the tzimides (infidels) paid their taxes, the Ottomans couldn't care less what they did, or how they lived.

[Balthier]

The irony of this article is stunning..when Turks force others to assimilate then it's all fine and dandy, and yet, the remnants of the Turkish(Orcish) hordes that are still living in Greece are facing assimilation is a big no-no.

"My name is Mehmet Ongolo, and I'm living in of the Aegean islands of Greece"

Tfw an Arab calls me an Orc:

[Pater Patota]

Need extensive genetic test on Dodecanese people.If they're over 1% East Asian&Siberian, that means they're originally Turk, if they claim they're Turkish Dodecanese but if they lack of East Asian&Siberian admix, that means they're Turkified Greeks.

[Doug Stanhope]

Need extensive genetic test on Dodecanese people.If they're over 1% East Asian&Siberian, that means they're originally Turk, if they claim they're Turkish Dodecanese but if they lack of East Asian&Siberian admix, that means they're Turkified Greeks.

This is nonsense. These were Turks because the spoke Turkish, not Greek. If they were Turkicised Greeks, like the Cretan Muslims, they would have spoken Greek instead.