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    'PEACE PROCESS' NOT A CHALLENGE TO LAUSANNE

    Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
    Sept 24 2013

    ISTANBUL - Hurriyet

    Turkey's ongoing peace process to resolve the decades-long Kurdish
    issue would not challenge the Lausanne Treaty, Zafer Toprak, history
    professor at Bogazici University has said.

    "Turkey will protect its nation state identity at some point. This
    includes the country's borders too. However it is important to realize
    that Turkey must enable internationally acknowledged norms of human
    rights, individual freedoms for [Turkey's citizens]. If Turkey gains
    ground on this issue I do not sense a threat factor about national
    borders," Toprak, who is the founder and president of the Ataturk
    Institute of the Bogazici University told daily Hurriyet when he was
    asked if recognition of ethnic identities in Turkey regarding the
    Kurdish issue would reach a point of challenging the Lausanne Treaty.

    "Lausanne is not open to debate because at this point the whole
    process [in the Middle East] proceeds independently from Lausanne. The
    arguments are not linked to Lausanne, it's mostly linked with people's
    ethnic identities," he said.

    The Treaty of Lausanne was a peace treaty signed in Lausanne,
    Switzerland, on July 24, 1923, before the founding of the Turkish
    Republic. It officially ended the state of war that had existed between
    Turkey and the Western Alliance since the onset of World War I. The
    treaty set the structure of Turkey's minority laws accepting only Rums
    (Anatolian Greeks), Jews and Armenians as ethnic minority groups.

    September/24/2013

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