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Aspects of Legal Communitarianism in Greece: Between Millet and Citizenship


Konstantinos Tsitselikis


University of Macedonia

April 2, 2012

Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Vol. 2, No. 7, 2012

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Legal and political percepts pertaining to ethnic belonging in Greece are closely linked to the ideological understanding of Greekness, a legacy of the Ottoman Greek-Orthodox millet system. Complementary to this image of the national self, minority protection law on Muslims and Jews was and still is partially formed through millet-like paradigms. Greece’s territorial expansion made all inhabitants of the annexed provinces Greek citizens en masse: in addition to those that were deemed eligible to belong to the Greek nation, Jewish and Muslim communities also acquired Greek citizenship. For these communities the self-autonomy of the Ottoman millet structure in education and religious matters was transformed into minority protection, through special rights (community schools, Moufti’s jurisdiction, Muslim foundations, military conscription) attributable through religion to citizens of the state.

En Grecia, la interpretación ideológica del carácter griego está estrechamente relacionada con los preceptos legales y políticos relativos a la pertenencia étnica, legado del sistema millet otomano griego-ortodoxo. Como complemento a esta percepción de la identidad nacional, la ley de protección de las minorías musulmanas y judías estuvo, y todavía está parcialmente formada por paradigmas milletianos. La expansión territorial de Grecia convirtió de forma masiva a los habitantes de las provincias anexadas en ciudadanos griegos: entre los que se consideró que reunían los requisitos necesarios para pertenecer a la nación griega, se encontraban las comunidades judías y musulmanas. En ambos casos, la autonomía en temas de educación y religión que disfrutaban dentro de la estructura milletiana de los otomanos, se transformó en protección minoritaria, a través de derechos especiales (escuelas de la comunidad, jurisdicción Moufti, fundaciones musulmanas, el reclutamiento militar) atribuibles a los ciudadanos del estado a través de la religión.

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Keywords: Islam, citizenship, Greece, minorities, immigrants

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Date posted: July 11, 2012 ; Last revised: January 29, 2013

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Tsitselikis, Konstantinos, Aspects of Legal Communitarianism in Greece: Between Millet and Citizenship (April 2, 2012). Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Vol. 2, No. 7, 2012. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2050345

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Konstantinos Tsitselikis (Contact Author)
University of Macedonia ( email )
156 Egnatia St.
P.O. 1591
Thessaloniki, 54006
Greece
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