9) Why doesn't the Greek government recognize the "Macedonian" minority?
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This article is from the Macedonia FAQ, by Angelos Karageorgiou angelos@iqs.gr with numerous contributions by others.
9) Why doesn't the Greek government recognize the "Macedonian" minority?
Greek parents have been sending their children to Macedonian schools
for years, expecting them to learn Greek, not Bulgarian. Macedonian
people (Greeks) are already a majority in Greece, with Macedonian
churches, schools and cultural centers teaching Greek and regional
dances and songs.
The Greek government can neither recognize a minority with the same
name, as the majority, nor build non-Greek schools and churches
with the same name. Greek courts have offered to open cultural
centers for their minority, under a different name (than
Macedonian). They have refused.
As long as they use the term "Macedonian" to describe their
nationality, their minority in Greece cannot be recognized
since the same name is used by the Greeks of Macedonia to describe
themsleves for much longer that the written history of any slavic
tribe.
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