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    Hellenic News of America
    April 30 2006

    Greek American Membership Organizations' 2006 Policy Statement on
    Compensation to Turkey's Victims

    Greek American Membership Organizations' 2006 Policy Statement on
    Compensation to Turkey's Victims

    WASHINGTON, DC-- American Hellenic Institute president Gene Rossides
    announced today that the major Greek American membership
    organizations endorsed the 2006 policy statement on Compensation To
    Turkey's Victims. Prepared by the American Hellenic Institute, it is
    part of the 2006 Greek American Policy Statements. The major
    membership organizations are: the Order of AHEPA, the Hellenic
    American National Council, the Cyprus Federation of America, the
    Panepirotic Federation of America, the Pan-Macedonian Association of
    America, the PanCretan Association of America, the Pan-Pontian
    Federation of U.S.A. and Canada and the American Hellenic Institute.
    The endorsed statement follows:

    Compensation To Turkey's Victims

    We cite the compensation paid by the government of Germany to
    holocaust victims and to the state of Israel and the government of
    Japan to the victims of its actions in Asia before and during World
    War II. We call on the U.S. government to press Turkey to pay
    compensation:

    * to the victims of Turkey's illegal invasion of Cyprus of 1974;
    * to the owners of property in Cyprus illegally taken, occupied and
    used by the Turkish authorities and individuals since 1974;
    * to the victims of the September 1955 Turkish pogrom against its
    Greek citizens in Istanbul. The Turkish government at the time said
    it would pay compensation to those victims but it has failed to do
    so;
    * to the victims of the Turkish genocide against the Pontian Greeks
    in the 1920's;
    * to the victims of the Turkish massacre of the Greek and Armenian
    populations of Smyrna (now Izmir) in 1922 under Kemal Ataturk's
    orders; and
    * to the victims of Turkey's Armenian Genocide in 1915.

    Turkey, under threat of expulsion from the Council of Europe, finally
    complied with the ruling of the European Court and paid the judgment
    of the European Court of Human Rights which awarded $1.3 million in
    damages to Titina Loizidou for the violation of her property rights
    in the occupied area in connection with Turkey's illegal invasion of
    Cyprus in 1974 and its continuing illegal occupation. It demonstrates
    that forceful action regarding Turkey will bring results. We call for
    payments to all similarly situated Greek Cypriots and other owners of
    property in the occupied area, including American owners.

    ###

    For additional information, please contact Georgia Economou at (202)
    785-8430 or at [email protected]. For general information about
    the activities of AHI, please see our website at http://www.ahiworld.org.
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