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.
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