There’s an elephant in the room.

It is large and squatting, so it is hard to get around it.

Yet we squeeze by with, “How are you?” and “I’m fine,” and a thousand other forms of trivial chatter.

We talk about the weather. We talk about work. We talk about everything else, except the elephant in the room.

There’s an elephant in the room.

We all know it’s there. We are thinking about the elephant as we talk together.

It is constantly on our minds. For, you see, it is a very large elephant. It has hurt us all.
But we don’t talk about the elephant in the room.
Oh, please say his (her) name.
Oh, please say his (her) name again.
Oh, please, let’s talk about the elephant in the room.

For if we talk about his (her) death, perhaps we can talk about his (her) life.
Can I say his (her) name to you and not have you look away?
For if I cannot, then you are leaving me…. alone…. in a room…. with an elephant.

Who needs the Turkish Consulate in our city?

- Are there any Turkish nationals in Thrace?
- Are there really so many bureaucratic procedures in place – especially after the abolition of visas for Turkey – that would justify the presence of such a highly-staffed and costly service in Komotini?
- Are there minority rights issues within modern Greece, a member of the EU, which would require the presence of such a “guarantor”, e.g. those of the Turkish-occupied Kurdistan?
- Or does the Lausanne Treaty, which Turkey has turned into a piece of toilet paper from the day it was signed, require the presence of its own violator?

The answer is obviously negative to all these questions, as dictated by common sense.

Why is it then that the Turkish Consulate exists in Thrace?

- Is it to maintain a false flag diversion leading our fellow Muslim citizens to form a closed population that refuses to integrate?
- Is it to put in place or manipulate selected minority leaders in order to control the minority?
- Is it to contemplate how to ‘Turkify’ Pomaks and Roma and through this ‘ethnic cleansing’ to create a ‘Turkish minority’?

The local community is well aware of all these, but remains silent.
We all seem to accept the presence of the cat among the pigeons, some due to financial interests, others due to their political aspirations, and some others due to their complacency to the excuse of ‘a competent state’ that supposedly ‘knows what needs to be done’.
However, there is an urgent need for a public, democratic debate on the issue and the Thracian society should be able to express its will. We need a social movement, one that will highlight the real problems of the area that have reached such a fever point that their solution is a necessary condition for progression and survival. This is both on a collective and individual level.
The removal of the Turkish Consulate from Komotini is such a major issue that it should not be allowed to remain hidden under an everlasting silence. If we are a truly civil society, we have the right to freedom of speech and our voices should be heard!

INITIATIVE COMMITTEE
www.proxeneio-stop.org

Petition for the removal of the Turkish Consulate from Thrace.
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