An official document penned by the Istanbul Provincial Education
Directorate has surfaced, revealing that Turkey’s population
administration system has been recording citizens who have Armenian,
Jewish or Anatolian Greek (Rum) origins with secret “race codes.”
The
Armenian-Turkish weekly newspaper Agos published as its headline story
on Aug. 1 a report on an official document that openly states “citizens
with Armenian origin are coded with ‘2.’”
The implementation is reported
to have been in place since 1923, the foundation year of the Turkish
Republic.
By Sotiris Nikas
Greeks work more than other eurozone citizens and are paid less,
which predictably places them among the least satisfied people among 36
nations surveyed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD).
Greeks are the third least satisfied with
their lives in the survey, given that in most indexes they are below the
OECD country average. The only nations to be even less satisfied are
the Portuguese and the Hungarians, the survey found. The Swiss top the
list.
