The evolution of the minority rights and the continuity and change of the Greek minority policies in western thrace

Date

2005

Author

Öztürk, Alpay

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This thesis analyzes the evolution of minority protection in general and Greece̕s minority policies in Western Thrace especially since the beginning of 1990s. The examination of the definition and the scope of the term minority is followed by the analysis of the evolution of minority rights since Westphalia Agreement to Framework Convention for Protection of National Minorities to facilitate the analysis of the evolution of Greek minority policies. The thesis includes the history of Greek minority policy since its establishment to compare and contrast the continuities and changes of the Greek minority policies before and after 1990s. This thesis also seeks to find the causes of continuities and changes of the Greek minority policy along with detailed analysis of the policies and practices after 1990s, and argues that the Greek minority policy in Western Thrace basically presents continuity with its exclusivist and ethnocentric tendencies in spite of minor modifications due to the circumstantial factors.

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General social ciences.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12606186/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/15180

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Theses