[KOMOTINI IMPRINT / WESTERN THRACE QUESTION] Islâmiyet ve insâniyet ugrunda açik lehce ile konusan cihad. [i.e., Jihad speaking openly for the sake of Islam and humanity]

ÖMER F. MUFTIZÂDE, Privately Published, Komotini (Gümülcine), 1957. Original wrappers. Foolscap 8vo. (17 x 12 cm). Text in Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters), with a bilingual title in Greek, Arabic, and Turkish on the cover. 74 p. First and only edition of this rare booklet on "the Islamic jihad" written by Muslim local cleric Müftizâde of Komotini, for the rights of Muslim Turks who were deported and lost their citizenship due to Article 19 of the Greek Citizenship Law in 1955. The ethnic Turkish minority of Thrace has resided in the region since at least the fourteenth century, and they were Greek citizens. In 1923, under the Treaty of Lausanne, the Turkish minority of Thrace was granted a wide array of rights to ensure the protection of their religion, language, culture, and equality before the law. In addition, as Greek citizens, ethnic Turks also enjoyed the protection of Greek law and the European Convention on Human Rights. In the early 1950s, during a period of r