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    TURKISH PM ERDOGAN ISSUES DECREE ON MINORITIES' PROTECTION

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    May 13, 2010 - 16:57 AMT 11:57 GMT

    Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has instructed officials
    and civil servants to avoid emergence of any difficulties in their
    formal dealings with national minority representatives in Turkey.

    The decree reads that minorities' problems have not been solved
    entirely, despite efforts exerted for democratization and improvement
    in issues concerning minorities in Turkey over the past years.

    Erdogan has ordered to take prompt actions for protection and
    maintenance of minorities' cemeteries, inclusion of court decrees in
    favor of minority foundations in land registry offices and swift legal
    action on publications inciting hatred for non-Muslim communities.

    The premier's decree was published in Official Gazette on May 13,
    the Anatolian Agency reported.

    According to Turkey's Constitution, Armenians, Greeks and Jews are
    national minorities of the country.
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