Problems Of Dodecanesian Turks Since The Lausanne Treaty

Abstract

The subject of the article is the problems of Dodecanesian Turks, who were neglected, weren't called attention to and mostly forgotten, since Turks in Western Thrace have been the focus within the context of Turks in Greece. They couldn't have the minority rights mentioned in the Lausanne Treaty, because Dodecanese had belonged to Italy when the Lausanne Treaty was signed in 1923 and the Paris Treaty of 1947 gave the islands to Greece after the Second World War. Dodecanesian Turks of today live through problems such as education in mother tongue and schools, mosques, imams and ill-administered foundation properties.