“Identities and Minorities in Turkey and Greece: The Case of Rums in Istanbul and Muslims in Western Thrace”

Date: April 27, 2012 Friday
Time: 3:30-6:30 p.m.
Place: Dolapdere Campus, Cinema Hall

Speakers:

Thaleia Dragona (University of Athens), Anna Frangoudaki (University of Athens): "A Long-Term Intervention in the Education of the Muslim Minority in Western Thrace"
 
Konstantinos Tsitselikis (University of Macedonia): "Legal and Political Issues Arising from the Implementation of the Treaty of Lausanne"
 
Ayhan Aktar (İstanbul Bilgi University): "The Treatment of Non-Muslim Minorities in Turkey: Turkey Belongs to the Turks!"
 
Moderator: Harry Tzimitras (İstanbul Bilgi University)
 
The conference will also feature a screening of the documentary “Addition not Subtraction, Multiplication not Division: An Alternative Education for Muslim Minority Students in Thrace”
 
The conference is organized by İstanbul Bilgi University’s Turkish-Greek Studies in cooperation with the Department of International Relations