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Pomaks to Bahçeli: You cannot make us Turkish, we are proud Pomaks and Greek citizens
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The Pomaks of Thrace did not stand idly and responded to the fake allegations made by both the Turkish Foreign Ministry and Devlet Bahçeli, a government partner of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Recently, the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had a teleconference with 17 students of the Pachnis school in the prefecture of Xanthi and spoke about the “young Greeks” of “Pomakochoria” (Pomak villages), something that brought reactions in Turkey.
In his tirade, Bahçeli called Greece’s “policies of assimilation” as “fascist” and called the Pomaks as “Turks.”
The Bosnian town of Srebrenica held a re-run of local elections on February 21, 2021 [File: Reuters/Dado Ruvic]
Quotas are an imperfect yet often necessary means for societies to rectify the deficiencies of democratic processes, especially in ethnically or culturally pluralist countries.
In Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, quotas and other protections have been implemented to ensure that certain communities that may face discrimination in a post-conflict environment are guaranteed political representation in legislative and executive bodies.
In Kosovo, 20 out of the parliament’s 120 seats are allocated to minorities, including 10 for the Serbs and the rest for the Bosniaks, Egyptians, Roma, Ashkali, Turks and Gorani. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, where all political activity has an ethnic character, there are rigid quotas that ensure its three main ethnic groups – the Bosniaks, the Croats and the Serbs – are equally represented at every level.