Özet:

The Parlamentery Assembly of the Council of Europe (The Assembly) has adopted a resolution relating to the minorities in Turkey and in Greece and urged the Turkish and Greek authorities to step forward on the issue. In this paper it will be discussed what the Assembly urges the Turkish authorities to do. Among the others the Assembly urges Turkey to 1. come up with constructive solutions concerning the training of religious minorities ' clergy and the granting of work permits for foreign members of the clergy; 2. recognise the legal personality of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Istanbul, the Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul, the Armenian Catholic Archbishopric of Istanbul, the Bulgarian Orthodox Exarchate, the Chief Rabbinate and the Vicariate Apostolic of jstanbul 3. find an agreed solution with the representatives of the minority with a view to the reopening of the Heybeliada Greek Orthodox Theological college (the Halki Seminary) inter alia by making official in writing the proposal to reopen the seminary as a department of the F acuity of Theology of Galatasaray University, in order to open genuine negotiations on this proposal. 4. give the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of jstanbul the freedom to choose to use the acijective "ecumenical" 5. resolve the question of the registration of places of worship and the question of the mazbut properties confiscated since I 97 4, which must be returned to their owners or to the entitled persons or, where the return of the assets is impossible, to provide for fair compensation 6. adapt the legislation as as to allow children from non-Muslim minorities, but without Turkish nationality, to be admitted to minority schools