"In Constantinople, Imbros & Tenedos, the Greek Minority numbers less than 3,000 people, whereas at the time of the signing of the Treaty it numbered around 130,000"
Greek minority
“And any discrimination against you is not only contrary to the Lausanne Treaty but also to international conventions on the protection of Human Rights”
Now the Muslim minority in Thrace numbers approximately 120,000 members while the Greek minority in Turkey has shrunk to only 3,000
One of the Turkish city's oldest minority-language papers "Apoyevmatini" is made by just two men from the back room of an apartment
"The issue now is not to help the Armenians, but to protect humanity from the Turks”
Constantinople-born Greek national Ioannis Maditinos had lost his Turkish citizenship when he acquired Greek citizenship in 1986
The indigenous Ethnic Greek Minority in Albania also feels the pressure of the Albanian government as a "velvet" ethnic cleansing is in progress
Albania's EU accession course could be jeopardised he said
In April 2011, following a court’s decision, the Turkish Education Ministry banned the operation of three Greek schools in Constantinople