ANALYSIS OF THE FENER GREEK PATRIARCHATE AND THE WESTERN THRACE TURKISH MINORITY
Özet
ABSTRACT: The Republic of Turkey about the closure of all private schools that give higher education and do
not pass to the state (To the Ministry of National Education) has accepted law in 1971. Although to be clearly
stated in the Lausanne Treaty and it allowed staying in Turkey in return for the Patriarchate's non-political
activities that was wanted to use the Patriarchate as a tool in foreign policy by the United States of America
(USA) against the Russian Orthodox Church begun to follow different political system after World War II. The
aim of these works in Istanbul, the first step was to constitute a similar independent Vatican model in İstanbul
by taking Patriarchate outside the Turkish legal legislation. On the other hand, Greece sees the Turkish Minority
in Western Thrace as a threat to the future of the country, and the Turkish population is tried to be eliminated
through forced migration and assimilation. In this study, the Greek Government, on the one hand, wants to
bring “ecumenical” to the Patriarchate with privileges and a fait accompli for the Patriarchate, other hands
against the Western Thrace Turks, who could not even elect their religious representatives, refrained from
giving the gains that Turks gained by the Treaty of Lausanne is subject of this study.
