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A selection of Macedonian blogs in Greece
Abecedar
Aegean Macedonian Culture
Antimakedonismos
Mladini-Makedonci
Anti-macedonian policy during the elections for the European Parliament against Rainbow by the Greek state and the Greek mass media
A scandal by the Parliamentary committee
Greek TV stations sabotage EFA-Raibow
Ultra-nationalists want "borders with Serbia"!
"Hellenic Post" sabbotages EFA-Rainbow Campaign
Typical example of censorship of Rainbow
Attack of the Greek Neo-nazi party
A Greek - Macedonian dictionary by Vasko Karatza printed with the support of EFA - Rainbow
Greek
Macedonian
D. Lithoxoou
lithoksou.net/home.html
"Extracts of Letters"
Τι έλεγε κάποτε το ΚΚΕ για τους Μακεδόνες
Denying Ethnic Identity:
The Macedonians of Greece, by Human Rights Watch
Linguistics and politics II:
Macedonian Language
Greece's stance towards
its Macedonian minority
and the neighbouring
Republic of Macedonia.
Lawed Arguments
and Omitted Truths
R. Nikovski: Memorandum to the European Parliament
Facts behind the Greek politics towards Macedonia
English
Macedonian
"Proposed disciplinary measures to stamp out the Macedonian minority in Greece by the National Security Service"
POLITICAL PARTY OF THE MACEDONIAN MINORITY IN GREECE
Member of the European Free Alliance - European Political Party (EFA-EPP)
Member of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN)
Stefanou Dragoumi 11 �.�. 53100 �.�. 51 Greece; Tel/fax 0030 23850 46548
Website:
www.florina.org
; E-mail:
rainbow@florina.org
Press Release
International Panel Discussion in the European Parliament on the Turkish and Macedonian Minorities in Greece
Florina/Lerin - March 27, 2008
On
Thursday 17 April 2008
, the European Free Alliance � European Political Party in cooperation with the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF), European Free Alliance � Rainbow (Macedonian minority of Greece) and the Federal Union of the European Nationalities (FUEN) will be organising an international panel discussion in the European Parliament in Brussels on the �
Ignored Minorities in Greece: Western Thrace Turks and Macedonians
.� The event will be held in Meeting Room A5G2 from 15.00 until 18.00.
Guest speakers at this event will include
Hans Heinrich Hansen (Panel Chair)
(President, Federal Union of European Nationalities),
Halit Habipoglu
(President, Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe,
Nelly Maes
(President, European Free Alliance - European Political Party),
Asst. Prof. Dr. Halim Cavusoglu
(Department of Sociology, Hacettepe University ),
Pavlos Filipov Voskopoulos
(Member of the Central Council of EFA-Rainbow, political party of the Macedonian Minority in Greece),
Helene Flautre MEP
* (Chair, Subcommittee on Human Rights, European Parliament),
Dr. Csaba Sandor Tabajdi MEP
* (Chair, Intergroup for Traditional National Minorities, Constitutional Regions and Regional Languages),
Boriss Cilevics
(Member of the PACE, Chair, Sub-Committee on Rights of Minorities)
Panayote Dimitras
(Spokesperson, Greek Helsinki Monitor) and
Mikel Irujo Amezaga MEP
(Greens/EFA Group).
Background information on the Turkish and Macedonian minorities of Greece
The Greek state systematically discriminates against the Turkish minority and denies the ethnic identity of the minority, which whether acquired by birth or through acculturation, is Turkish. Greece prefers to use the term �Muslim minority�, a concept based on the Lausanne Peace Treaty and on the rejection of a �Turkish� identity. Greece�s refusal to accept the minority�s Turkish identity has ranged from banning civic organisations bearing the adjective �Turkish� in their titles � as in the case of �Turkish Union of Xanthi�- to prosecuting individuals who publicly identified the minority as �Turkish�.
The Macedonian minority of Greece is concentrated in the northern part of the country. Although the Macedonian language is spoken by a large number of persons, it is in danger of becoming extinct as it does not enjoy official state recognition and therefore is not taught in the education system. Furthermore, Macedonian speakers and indeed persons expressing a Macedonian ethnic identity have been persecuted by Greek authorities. Greek courts on multiple occasions since 1989 have refused to register the cultural association �Home of Macedonian Culture�.
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Promotion of the
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Primer at the OSCE HDIM
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Macedonian
Greek irredentism and expansionism officially sanctioned by the Greek Parliament
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Greek
Macedonian
Letter to Carla del Ponte,
Chief Prosecutor for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
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Greek
Macedonian
The Yugoslavian Crisis
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Greek
Macedonian
Document of the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs
Related to the article - The obvious linguistic particularity - Eletherotypia, 18/11/2006
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The ten Greek myths
on the “Macedonian issue”
By IOS team – Eletherotypia, 23/10/2005
Who says there are no
minority languages in Greece?
The "secret" census
in north Greece, in 1920
Map showing the Cultures and Languages in the E.U.
Council of Europe
Framework convention for the Protection of national minorities
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Greek
Macedonian
Συνέντευξη: Ευάγγελος Κωφός, Έλληνας ιστορικός
Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας - Σκόπια είναι όνομα που εκφράζει την ταυτότητά σας
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Ο Παύλος Φιλίποβ Βοσκόπουλος απαντά στον Ευάγγελο Κωφό.
«Το Μακεδονικό ζήτημα είναι η αχίλλειος πτέρνα του ελληνικού μύθου».
Greek
Macedonian
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