Turkey has made Unprecedented progress in The past contract, back over 1,000 properties confiscated by the state for minorities between 2003 and 2018, noting that good Faith of Lawmakers said, a Turkish-Armenian lawyer in a panel Held at Harvard University in Massachusetts on Tuesday.
Armenian-Turkish lawyer Omer Kantik who specialized in Minority rights, he said panel Supervised by professor Martha Mino that Turkey is striving to return real estate of Minorities, according to the Anadolu Agency (AA).
“a total of 1,084 of the confiscated property was returned to minority institutions, and compensation pushed for 21 properties between 2003 and 2018 as part of The new regulations,” adding that this shows “good well” of legislators.
Noting that Turkey has made “Unprecedented progress“About the return of confiscated property of minorities in Line with The European Union coordination process after 2000, Cantic said the European Court of human rights provisions in This connection should It is not seen as pressure, but rather as a guiding tip.
“I can say that this process, which has been progress more Comprehensive since the 2000s, gives us more We hope for the future,” Kantic said, adding that he’s at Harvard.share This hope.”
He continued by saying that problems that happened in The past Thing of The past and better future Waiting for minorities with laws.
Meanwhile, Kantik’s daughter Destina Kantic, Harvard Law School graduate, also made casually in panel Explain Turkey’s democracy and problemFocus on solving the situation.
There are 167 minority institutions in Turkey, including 77 Greek Orthodox, 54 Armenians, 19 Jews, 10 Syriacs, three Chaldeans, two Bulgarians, one Georgian and one Maronites organization.
In the past Decades, Turkey moved to restore rights of minorities and help They survived as their numbers dwindled over time. long dealt secondCitizens of Greek, Jewish, Armenian, and Syrian caste praised the return of their rights, though they complained that it was a slow process.
establish of Non-Muslim minorities have legal status under the Lausanne Peace Treaty of 1923, which granted them equality before the law and the freedom to create and run “My religion and social institutions. “
The Charter of 1936 paved the way way for founded for acquire Property But a 1974 court ruling reversed the process, enabling the state to confiscate minority property that minorities had acquired after 1936. The property was mostly returned to its lands original owners and in absence of Owners, they were taken by the treasury.
