Reciprocity: Greek and Turkish Minorities Law, Religion and Politics - Softcover

HAZIRLANIYOR

Recıprocıty ıs a unıversaı concept ın ınternatıonaı ıaw ana ın ınternatıonaı relations that encourages the parties to adhere to contractual agreements. İt is also binding, as it allovvs the possibility of sanctions under the intemational law. Hovvever, vvithin the framevvork of reciprocal treatment of the minorities in Greece and Turkey, the concept was misconstrued and, eventually, misused by the respective govemments. In both of these states, reciprocity had been interpreted as a legitimate basis for retaliation against its own citizens for policies of another sovereign state. Clearly, reciprocity, when applied to the situation of minorities in Greece and Turkey, cannot be treated by both govemments as means of reprisal, but instead should be a source of responsibility tovvards the respective minority that resides in each of the states and constitutes part of the society.The idea of this book was bom out of the AFEMAM (French Association for Studies on Müslim and Arab World) Congress, held in Strasbourg in 2005. This book, a collaborative effort of eight scholars specializing in Greek-Turkish relations, offers an insight on the issue of reciprocity in the case of Greek and Turkish minorities in Turkey and Greece from legal, historical, sociological and Political science perspectives. The objective of this collective endeavour is to introduce a spectrum of vievvs on the issue and invite the intemational community, academia and policy-makers, as well as general public, to advance and contribute to the discussion and dialogue opened in this volume.