Sadik Achmet

Grave of Sadik Achmet in Komotini

Sadik Achmet (Greek: Σαδίκ Αχμέτ, Turkish: Sâdık Ahmet) (born on 1 January 1947 in Komotini, Greece; died 25 July 1995 in Komotini, Greece) was a Greek professor of Turkish descent. He founded the Party of Friendship, Equality and Peace.

He was elected to the Greek parliament in June 1989. He was sent to court on 24 January 1990 due to his declarations that the members of the Muslim minority in Thrace are Turks, and because he referred to himself as "Turk" in his election pamphlet.[1] After a two-day trial he was found guilty of slander and misinformation by the Greek court and condemned to 18 months. Leaving the courtroom he stated "I am being taken to prison only because I am a Turk. If being a Turk is a crime, I repeat here that I am a Turk and I will remain so".[2]

Sadik Achmet died in a controversial[3] car accident when his car along with his wife and family drove into a tractor. Most Turkish politicians considered his death a staged political assassination rather than accident.[4][5]

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  1. ↑ Rashid Ergener (2002). About Turkey: Geography, Economy, Politics, Religion, and Culture. Pilgrims Process, Inc. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-9710609-6-8.
  2. ↑ Lois Whitman (1990). Destroying Ethnic Identity: The Turks of Greece. Human Rights Watch. pp. 17–18. ISBN 978-0-929692-70-8.
  3. ↑ Renee Hirschon (2003). Crossing the Aegean: An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey. Studies in forced migration. 12. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-85745-702-8. OCLC 50745135. ...who later died in a controversial car accident...
  4. ↑ Simon's Rock of Bard College (2005). New Perspectives on Turkey. Great Barrington, MA: Simon's Rock of Bard College; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. p. 101. ISSN 0896-6346. OCLC 17250535.
  5. ↑ Ende, Werner; Steinbach, Udo (2010). Islam in the World Today: A Handbook of Politics, Religion, Culture, and Society. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press. p. 592. ISBN 0-8014-6489-7. OCLC 441947574.
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