An excellent commentary by Yusuf Kanlı on the principle of 'reciprocity' governing the treatment of Turkey's Greek and Greece's Turkish minorities. Whoever penned the article by Erdoğan published in the Kritik supplement of daily Radikal must have been either still acting with the Cold War mentality of “reciprocity” or unaware of the post-Cold War changes in the world, particularly the effects of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or OSCE, process and the resulting fundamental international principles that there are no boundaries for human rights violations and that there can be no reciprocity in human rights. Keeping Halki closed means crucifying Patriarchate The problems listed by the prime minister of course needed to be answered by the Greek state. Of course those problems are real and the ethnic Turkish and other Muslim minorities of Greece demand their resolution. But, why should Turkey act with the mentality of the 1920s, 30s, 50s,
from triglav to caucasus
Commentary on the political and cultural developments in Southeastern Europe