Historic Treatment Of Minorities In Turkey

EDM number 1588 in 2008-09, proposed by Andrew Dismore on 03/06/2009.
Categorised under the topics of Asia, Ethnic groups and Human rights.

That this House notes the statement by the Turkish Prime Minister recognising that Turkey's minorities have been ethnically cleansed; calls on the Government also to recognise this fact; suggests that a measure of restitution which could be made by the government of Turkey to demonstrate its good intentions would be the return to the jurisdiction of the respective Patriarchates the 2,000 Armenian, Assyrian and Syriac churches and religious monuments which were expropriated in 1923 by the Turkish State under the law of abandoned properties following the events of the 1915 Genocide; and urges the Government to make representations to Turkey to this effect.

This motion has been signed by a total of 24 MPs.