"THE PROBLEMS OF THE TURKISH MINORITY OF WESTERN THRACE IN GREECE WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS
Ethnic Turks have resided in Thrace, in the North-Eastern part of the mainland, since at least the fourteenth century, and they are Greek citizens. In 1923, under the Treaty of Lausanne, a bilateral treaty between Greece and Turkey that ensued a population exchange between the two countries, but from which the Turkish minority in Western Thrace and the Greek minority in Istanbul were exempted as for the exchange, and by which the Turkish minority of Thrace and the ethnic Greek minority in Istanbul were granted identically a wide array of rights to ensure protection of their religion, language, culture, and equality before the law."
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