Discrimination continues in Turkey against national minorities, including Armenians. Analytical essay “Armenians in Turkey” prepared by the Forum of Armenian Associations of Europe edited by Philosophy Doctor of Berlin Open University Tesa Hoffman states it. In the article authors’ opinion, the negotiations on Turkey’s accession to the European Union should not begin until human rights and civil liberties are violated there. According to the source, the non-Muslim population of Turkey, which formed 25% of the total country population number in 1914, is now reduced to 0.15%. This applies to Greeks, Jews, as well as Armenians, which are now the biggest non-Muslim community of Turkey comprising 70 thousand people. In the authors’ opinion, the Armenian community should become a kind of a litmus paper to detect changes in official Ankara’s attitude towards national minorities.
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