Greek Human Rights Violations Against Turkish Minority

The United States Helsinki Commission, an independent government agency charged with monitoring and securing compliance with international human rights standards, should hold hearings to spotlight Greece 's subjugation of its Turkish minority in Western Thrace . While the European Union and the United States have been quick to award Turkey demerits for allegedly slighting Kurdish culture, they have been conspicuously inaudible in the face of Greece's decades long campaign of cultural repression, ethnic and religious discrimination and economic marginalization of its Turkish minority. Double standards breed resentment.