The Lausanne treaty and Greece of 2016

03/12/2016 23:12

The Lausanne treaty and Greece of 2016

Article in the newspaper “Golden Dawn”

 

The threats from the part of Turkey and Albania towards our national interests are constant. The responses of the representatives of the political establishment are empty words, since they have showed for years a phenomenal indifference for all the national affairs. In fact, Erdogan, urges openly for the revision of the Lausanne treaty. 

 

Yet, what is the impact of the Lausanne treaty to the citizen of this country? I think none! They are all ignorant. The nescience and the misinterpretation of History are in growth, with the responsibility of this political establishment. In reality, WE LOST in the Lausanne treaty! We lost, not the lands in Asia Minor that had been taken by the Turks with military operations, but Eastern Thrace and two fundamental islands, from a strategic point of view, Imbros and Tenedos!

 

In this text we will focus in Imbros and Tenedos, which were completely controlled by the Greek Navy in 1923, while Kemal had no navy, and yet, we handed them over! Let us remark some documents about Imbros and Tenedos: “IMBROS - The Lausanne treaty ceded the two islands to Turkey, the successor of the Ottoman Empire. The same, treaty, however, exempted the Greeks inhabitants of these two islands from the following exchange of populations, while it provided for them further autonomy, a condition that was later transgressed. In 1926, the new Civil Code of Turkey revoked all the rights of the minorities, with the residents of Imbros among them, in breach of the Lausanne Treaty. The Law 1151 of 1927 prohibited the teaching of the Greek language at schools. The provision for local police, controlled by the Greek minority of the island, was never applied. Imbros was renamed Gökçeada and vast settlements from the inner lands of Turkey took place, in order to distort the composition of peoples. The properties of Greeks were seized, invoking safety reasons, in worthless prices. 

 

TENEDOS - During the signing of the Treaty of Sèvres, this island, which was inhabited almost completely by Greeks, was conceded in Greece. During the census of the island in 1920, the population constituted a community of the province of Limnos, with 2835 residents, all of them Greeks, who were concentrated to the homonymous village, settled in the north part of the east coast, which constituted the sole agglomeration of the island. However, after the defeat of Greece in   Greco-Turkish War and the consecutive fall of the Ottoman empire, after the signing of the Lausanne Treaty, Tenedos along with Imbros were surrendered to Turkey. These two islands, according to the 14th article of the Treaty, would live under a state of autonomy, with their own police and local government, while the Greeks who lived there were exempted from the exchange of populations. However, the conditions of the Treaty were not respected.”

 

These are the documents about Imbros and Tenedos. In Imbros, according to the official census of 1927, lived 157 Turks and 6.756 Greeks! In Tenedos, in 1920 lived 2.835 Greeks and NO Turks! Today Imbros is inhabited by 9.213 Turks and only 248 Greeks! In Tenedos, where there was NO Turk, now reside 2.354 Turks and only 25 Greeks! In simple words, on the two islands resided 10.000 Greeks and only 157 Turks after the Lausanne treaty. Nowadays, the Greek population has been chased away and the islands are inhabited by Turks. And then, Erdogan speaks about the Lausanne treaty! Make your own judgements.

 

N. G. M.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: xryshaygh.com 

Article in the newspaper “Golden Dawn”
The threats from the part of Turkey and Albania towards our national interests are constant. The responses of the representatives of the political establishment are empty words, since they have showed for years a phenomenal indifference for all the national affairs. In fact, Erdogan, urges openly for the revision of the Lausanne treaty. 
Yet, what is the impact of the Lausanne treaty to the citizen of this country? I think none! They are all ignorant. The nescience and the misinterpretation of History are in growth, with the responsibility of this political establishment. In reality, WE LOST in the Lausanne treaty! We lost, not the lands in Asia Minor that had been taken by the Turks with military operations, but Eastern Thrace and two fundamental islands, from a strategic point of view, Imbros and Tenedos!
In this text we will focus in Imbros and Tenedos, which were completely controlled by the Greek Navy in 1923, while Kemal had no navy, and yet, we handed them over! Let us remark some documents about Imbros and Tenedos: “IMBROS-The Lausanne treaty ceded the two islands to Turkey, the successor of the Ottoman Empire. The same, treaty, however, exempted the Greeks inhabitants of these two islands from the following exchange of populations, while it provided for them further autonomy, a condition that was later transgressed. In 1926, the new Civil Code of Turkey revoked all the rights of the minorities, with the residents of Imbros among them, in breach of the Lausanne Treaty. The Law 1151 of 1927 prohibited the teaching of the Greek language at schools. The provision for local police, controlled by the Greek minority of the island, was never applied.  Imbros was renamed Gökçeada and vast settlements from the inner lands of Turkey took place, in order to distort the composition of peoples. The properties of Greeks were seized, invoking safety reasons, in worthless prices. 
TENEDOS-During the signing of the Treaty of Sèvres, this island, which was inhabited almost completely by Greeks, was conceded in Greece. During the census of the island in 1920, the population constituted a community of the province of Limnos, with 2835 residents, all of them Greeks, who were concentrated to the homonymous village, settled in the north part of the east coast, which constituted the sole agglomeration of the island. However, after the defeat of Greece in   Greco-Turkish War and the consecutive fall of the Ottoman empire, after the signing of the Lausanne Treaty, Tenedos along with Imbros were surrendered to Turkey. These two islands, according to the 14th article of the Treaty, would live under a state of autonomy, with their own police and local government, while the Greeks who lived there were exempted from the exchange of populations. However, the conditions of the Treaty were not respected.”
These are the documents about Imbros and Tenedos. In Imbros, according to the official census of 1927, lived 157 Turks and 6.756 Greeks! In Tenedos, in 1920 lived 2.835 Greeks and NO Turks! Today Imbros is inhabited by 9.213 Turks and only 248 Greeks! In Tenedos, where there was NO Turk, now reside 2.354 Turks and only 25 Greeks! In simple words, on the two islands resided 10.000 Greeks and only 157 Turks after the Lausanne treaty. Nowadays, the Greek population has been chased away and the islands are inhabited by Turks. And then, Erdogan speaks about the Lausanne treaty! Make your own judgements.
N. G. M.
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