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This blog is dedicated to the ongoing struggle for human rights in Greece in regards to the recognition of the Turkish and Macedonians minorities that live in the country, who have been for many years denied the right to self identification.
You can contact me at: tra8zon@hotmail.com
http://taxalia.blogspot.com/2009/02/senator-menendez-attached-by-turkish.html
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Former Yugoslav Republic of Monkeydonia sucks to Former Gipsy Sultanat Turakistan! xaxaxaxxaxa… MACEDONIA IS ONLY BULGARIAN LAND!!!
http://travel2macedonia.com.mk
Regards from Macedonia
It is nationalistic propaganda forum!
FYROM is a collection of pathetic,discarded Slavs and Albanians seeking to create a mythical history and substantive identity to be proud of.
It would be much easier just to become Greek !
Like your ancestors did, become Greek.
No thank you, we Macedonians have for what to be proud of.
same goes for the mongrel Turks
MAKEDONIJA NE E BUGARSKA NI GRCKA MAKEDONIJA E NA MAKEDONCETE.ALEKSANDAR E NAS NE E GRK NI BUGARIN GRBOT IMETO ZNAMETO I DELOD OD GRCIJA I OD BUGARIJA KE BIDAT NASI NASKORO…
I really like your blog and just added a link on my site. Keep up the good work!
Christine
http://christinebednarz.wordpress.com/
Hello, I am not Macedonian or Turkish, but feel very strongly about the unreported denial of human rights in the not only economically bankrupt but morally bankrupt state of Greece. Here in Britain we see our ethnic and cultural minorities as a benefit and strengh to our society. Our arts and history are peppered with individuals and groups who were not as some might say British, but have undenibley created our identity. From William The Conqueror 1066 to the musical groups of the Ska movement of the 70s and 80s all have contributed to a modern nation, essentially made up of immigrants. I have travelled all over the world, Macedonia included and am familiar with the blackmail that is being carried out on its people and constitution. I am also aware of the ethnic cleasing taking place in Greece.
Macedonian history takes in a vast geographical and time period, the actions of one despot 2400 years ago does not define any single ethnicity or nations history. If one really wants to look at history maybe one should start with the dubious ethnic policy that Greece took towards its own Macedonian populous during the past century culminating in a society that refuses to recognise any ethnic minority within its borders apart from a small ‘Muslim’ minority Greece was forced to recognise under the the Treaty of Lausanne, 1923. There was another European nation that tried to create an ethnically homogeneous state in the past 80 years, that ‘history’ should serve as a warning.
The Republic Of Macedonia is a forward thinking, open, democratic country trying to make its way in the modern world. Ethnicity is not something set in stone, I am English and yet my ethnicity has no links to that of King Arthur, Robin Hood or many other famous English figures (If indeed King Arthur was English). It is in the same way that the state of modern Greece and its inhabitant bare little resemblance to the collection of city states and Greek culture of old. The word, the phrase, the notion Macedonian does not belong to one nation or peoples. There are those in Greece who choose to define themselves as Macedonian, there are those who live in a nation called The Republic Of Macedonia (recognised by 127 nations), who call themselves Macedonians, so be it, everyone has a right to self determination. As it states in article 15 of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights ‘No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality’, a document that Greece voted for in 1948.
Macedonians within The Republic Of Macedonia have always been proud of their culture, their identity, their history. These are not concepts that appeared when Yugoslavia fell. I know an incredible 93 year old woman who lives in rural Macedonia, near to the Serbian border, she has no TV and has limited access to outside world. I asked her what nationality she was, bemused at my question she answered ‘Macedonian’. I then asked what nationality she was when she was a child, more confused at my ridiculous query she answered ‘Macedonian of course’. Who in this world has the right to deny this woman, her village, her municipality, and her country the identity that they have decided upon hundreds of years ago. If they are not Macedonian then what are they? Individuals such as ‘Riste’ and ‘Greg’ are not here to discuss, compromise or understand. Denial, hypocrisy and a blinkered view of history can only lead to an atmosphere of hatred and the lack of security world wide.
With respect to all nations and ethnicities
-John