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greece has a proud reputation as the birthplace of democracy of government by the people for the people but to the ethnic to fish minority of trace in the country's northeast who say they've suffered decades of discrimination from the state that's noughts have it seems today we've been to investigate.

west and thrice. the northeastern corner of grace bordering both kerry and turkey is wild interim age. 3rd day payment in secret struggle these 3 countries form a spectacular natural frontex. the history of this region is no less dramatic. it has changed hands can't list times over the centuries finally coming and also man rule in the 1300s which lasted until about a 100 years ago. but even today the mountainous province of western thrice which is now given from athens continues to simmer with ethnic tensions 850000 ethnic turks live here and they're getting angry. the greek state wants to

control. minority here in all the fields wants to control our religion our believe. people here say that decades of discrimination pushed the region to boiling point. i'm thinking they're on it in the. knowledge on another. pipe to get just as. turkish president. divine is viewed as a hero here. he's condemned athens over the mistreatment of ethnic turks in a region where religious leaders have been jailed journalists silenced and land seized by the state. for the conviction to visit his them a supplement you know the one that was bullshit if i did it then i'm a blue look obviously.

within the safe confines of the many cultural associations across thrice turkish traditions are celebrated and passed on to youngsters. a hysteric years ago i was going to a lot of part of the local lot of the gaelic appeal of. them still like it is given . my kitchen challenged while i was there there are many years of a lot of. good. in it make it your. traditions are strong. especially in the villages where many ancient practices continue to thrive. however community leaders say that their distinctive ethnicity is under siege from the state. show on the show here q just on i'm not very little of a. candid talk on the your show young. you do it because of

palominos in the bowl in the loo. those are. the turkish unionism thing was founded in 1927 in order to preserve turkish culture. but when the court ruling forbidding any energy from having the words turkish in its title came into effect it's signs along with those of other n.g.o.s were seized by the police a move those unsuccessfully challenged in europe. now as a kid was a sort of a good because now as a kid. you know based on a bit of mocking as a kind of you can stickers of them the movement of the gun you can give me a lot of that want to kill don't believe in i'm something of. discrimination starts here. last year the creek education ministry shuts down

5 turkish minority schools bringing the total number of schools closed to $65.00 in just 8 years. now his forty's say as a reserve went to this turkish speaking school in the village of qana mccaw struck as to his parents and their parents. it's sudden closure has dealt a heavy blow to the community if i call them. mr morkel the. fact that i never call them give. me as a. couple. the addition of. where they are much. will the formal muster where i was a little who are good and it was a pleasant day let alone in a candidate in mrs burrage air as in the church of lebanon can the 2 died in each s. and yet the net and get all my. body there. are stimulate me. the

government closed the turkish schools citing lack of demand but according to the community actually too many students for the number of places available. in fact the situation. has become so acute in traces 2nd city zanti that a policy of splitting up the school day into 2 shifts was introduced resulting in substantially fewer as of schooling per day for ethnically turkish children. hundreds poured on to the streets to protest the news. is widely seen as part of a broader policy to phase out the turkish language in the region. and trigger a stimulus funding to get us out of them like it is going to talk in jet. crashed adventures but an ear and a medic that is

a man and i believe in it. they never. want to share this and they get on top of them said it in their. heads in the. critics also accuse the creek state of attempting to impose religious status on the turkish minority. the region has traditionally elected its mathieson like abraham sarah he represents come a teeny the region's capital and surprisingly the majority of turks refuse to recognize those directly appointed by the government. when come a teen he's appointed mufti was invited to speak as a minority school the students made it very clear he wasn't welcome and bought his entrance. so you can be your me. but i in and moved to your other dumas give it because this stadium is doing whatever you city. is

about the call that a joke said in early new jonna that all of them are synonyms thurman and in the byzantine it. himself was elected mufti of comma teenie with the resigning 90 percent of the verdict. he's less popular with the greek authorities he has just been sentenced to an 80 day prison and full use of thing authority by taking part in friday prayers by village in 2016 or the woman the this over the. there should be that it. looked like a bit then that there are mood message there that will. he say he had never explanation as to why the state waited 4 years to put him on trial but the 69 year

old mufti knows he's been in the authority sites for some time followed threatened and regularly taken in for questioning by the secret to this beating murder me on it very good that is out of the blue all a lot of this tape is that i'm not a man out to get me out of routine be all that you behave you have to be is get the . high out the yes sure the. many trace increases attitudes to his ethnic back to the cyprus conflict of 974. when due to increasing ethnic tensions between the island's greek and turkish communities to turkey launched and of beijing. more than $500.00 people died in the fighting which resulted in the partition of cyprus. from this point on the greek state refused to recognise the ethnicity of its turkish citizens. like some middle

east to call it arc. diet they have it is because the 255 that they get casted as somebody called them was the other understood when all of a cult. a muslim group has among other chicken be an orc. or look the. sort only that. something like $60000.00 asked nick to a strip of creek citizenship. get economy you noticed on the mythos of all of the commission also law which is a lot of the const who used a lot us law on that up and saw funny look only an angel and she knows what a highly things on the door was along his speech looked a little. before 19 monkeys because don't get driving license.

so what we said just. actually. almost all turkeys community talk to people here. head horses. in fact many turkish villages were sealed off by military checkpoints well into the 1990 s. . places like the village of at you know us. ox a haka was a boy at the time but remembers it while. this and in the mid ninety's until van or somebody who was from other parts of greece it was not possible for him to come in this area without any specific parish. why you how to how. special identity in order to come to your area because it was minority because it is a minority and. it was

a policy. minorities to become isolated in the villages isolated in get. at the time as dick turks went just having a difficult time in greece. in neighboring bulgaria joining the 1980 s. the communist authorities and balts on a brutal policy of force assimilation including giving ethnic turks slavic names. this was the impetus for the because of the so did that it's because their names were changed through christian mass which for a muslim to have a christian name is in france. and in the sound of 100-9000 think way 350000 troops left for the u.k. . it's unsurprising that so many left people would be eaten and fined just for

speaking turkish thousands were jailed across the country at places like better than a an infamous to tension center where 500 turks were. imprisoned without trial for resisting the forcible changing of the names. but that was bulgaria a communist dictatorship in greece the birthplace of democracy in the heart of the e.u. things were supposed to be different but athens has always been a world away from west and thrice and most just geographically as we soon find for ourselves from the moment we arrived in the region to make this film we were followed by unmarked police cars stopped and interrogated about our movements on one occasion although it was always all of us we were journalists we were even briefly arrested on suspicion of espionage and threatened with years in jail after

being held to have a night of a lawyer secure whatever they. were they get hired your bunch of guys they teach and talk with. some of the still must look. this is pretty big. the correct me check out this is another. quote this if i don't put it. earlier amman is the editor of gundam a turkish language newspaper. when police intimidation failed to silence the paper was sued for 1000000 euros. beating your you will get out of your your pond because they teach in a truck or you can maybe get out because it will solve the business in detroit. we encountered several people who were too afraid to speak on camera. there is no question that many feel the pressure of the state. the editor miller western

3 says other turkish language newspaper whites prison for writing an article which criticized the notion of state appointed mufti. mockumentary visit. you know me i or you know me i hope so. how is that as i wondered all that there are of them down the visible east enough it took them sorta. on bush indeed it very night in their own bush i hope is just us not shocked at all the. changes ses has been threatened and physically attacked by the police on several occasions for refusing to stop reporting on the plight of the turkish minority. but other but that i could they find there's good little old onus really amaze. and being so not as dumb but honestly the book. we wanted to ask the greek government about this and

other issues covered in a film to get an official response to the many other gay sions of discrimination we've heard that we wanted to give the authorities in athens an opportunity to explain to put their side of the story but despite repeated requests to various ministries no one was available for interview. nonetheless successive creek governments have challenged accusations of human rights violations in 3 days insisting that there is not a turkish minority. as recently as february 2020 outgoing president procket place pub local us made this comment. whatever is said the truth in international law cannot be ever written in any way the muslim minority who lives in thrice is a religious minority lost an ethnic war. greece

like many countries in europe has seen massive support for the far right in recent years brothers have golden door greece's anti islam party attracted i was ns of supporters they used some center for me. towards us sometimes they say that if you don't like what is you can go turkey why. i'm a greek citizen. i'm turkish it's not my fault it's my genes. i'm turkish but i'm also greek. against this backdrop it takes some courage to politically represent greece's ethnic turks. see it came as a fertile is the leader of kafe the party of for. ship peace under quality. all going to take so long with the digital crowd in the arm you know i'm stunned

that i talk about this both talking to dan and i did this brass or i'm gonna take the simple problems the reason you can is this blows the law on the guy this. said game sayes she's frequently misquoted and for the fight on national t.v. and told it it by far right extremists reuters for much of your money that we are reminded of the democrats the reporters those who are not top of the take did the very top of that if they follow they think mainly they think may make make the plan all the asylum and get an order just say send order just an island does the state $21.00 countries has to toss it out. never the less in greece is most recent parliamentary election keefe came top in the provinces of zante and to dopey with a 3rd of the verdict it's prompted a racist backlash in the region's biggest city drop us where turkish cemeteries

desecrated tombstone smashed a dog with nationalist symbols game remains on the wanted. is the most part so let it go google dot com is the greeting they endorsed and if i get customers that don't tell us my arms were on that. last may not happen soon a national election threshold of 3 percent effectively prevents any politician representing the turkish minority from entering poem and as it accounts for only 2 percent of the population. the good experience here is much stronger than the traditional. political you know. double getting in the greeks here right consciously. to put it as further away as possible from their every day pretty core which is say that it's a left it's 6 ball so it's culture. political culture

yes. but critics say that all aspects of turkish culture are under attack. all kateri traill radix from greece is also meant past all disappearing fast practically no state money is allocated for the upkeep of ancient autumn and monuments which are allowed to fall into disrepair and money for the upkeep from turkish cultural foundations is prohibited. they're worth more than 3000. more new months of autumn one heritage here in greece but in recent years we just have 300 the greek police see. about the historical monuments of ottomans let them be demolished

they don't want them here. the bay is a mosque indeed imitation is a masterpiece of autumn in architecture it is the oldest mosque in europe built in the 1400s. suman speaks for the ethnic turks of did imitate chair. it isn't mr $110.00. b. or spawn a study. by the packing. of upon and kyle brought out the of the of this is that it's intricate i mean. but disaster struck in 2017 when inexplicably the mosque caught fire. the official version is that sports from welding equipment left in the building some high reach the wooden roof which thing caught fire. but few vocals believe the story.

did for you know i did open the book. i was. actually. we are suspicious about fly the turkish people mostly believe that it's. not accidents. against this backdrop it's ironic that there's no shortage of ethnic turks prepared to speak up for greece. but a pleasure to cause and most which was among the you noticed on a cessna may be rebuild to low cost plus a common. minimum standard which was on effort that notion. ozone is grandparents like many ethnic turks died defending increased during the 2nd world war and its aftermath. was a. resume that it was the little miss bush was in on the. theory and some vision

of mission of that in general. it might seem hard to believe that cracker turkish relations could get any worse but then they did. the unable to cope with the growing number of refugees arriving from syria on the 29th of april 2020 turkey opened its land border with greece for those wanting to enter you or as thousands headed west the greek economy was deployed. hostility between the 2 countries was the worst it had been since the turkish invasion of cyprus. when creek soldiers started firing tear gas and smoke grenades over the border turkish troops returned fire a very real conflict was and they narrowly avoided. none of which bodes well for the ethnic turks of western thrice. here's

a clue. and took it in an astonished at it and bit of a. kind in there and it has made an italian history as you allude into it a bit of a cow's a learned and to the one of the high you a month or. for that is just what creases ethnic turks hope for. common chains association of turkish teaches is holding its weekly music night he'd be forgiven for thinking that you were in down time istanbul they had in the sphere is surprisingly up to date. i would be against animosity it occurred. to call it a column is a call it was a good vision as each. day

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