The Persistent Unconstitutionality of the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange under the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne

Dimitri Dimoulis; Soraya Gasparetto Lunardi

doi:10.30899/dfj.v23i52.1557

Autores

Dimitri Dimoulis Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-SP)
Soraya Gasparetto Lunardi Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30899/dfj.v23i52.1557

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Ethnic cleansing, Judicial Review, Greece, Treaty of Lausanne of 1923, Turkey

Resumo

The so-called population exchange decided in 1923, is a humanitarian, moral, and political tragedy. Our paper examines the legal aspect of the issue and shows, with reference to the Greek constitutional order of the time, that the exchange was a clear violation of the Greek Constitution because it deprived Greek citizens of a number of rights, including the right to citizenship and property. We present the Greek legal discourse of the time, which highlighted the constitutional violation. In this context, one of the jurists of the time referred to the exchange of populations using, perhaps for the first time in history, the term "ethnic cleansing". Contrary to this criticism, the later legal doctrine was silent, ignoring the fact that the Convention and the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne violated the existing Constitution and should, therefore, be considered partly invalid.

Biografia do Autor

Dimitri Dimoulis, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-SP)

Doctorate in Law (Saarland University, 1994). Full professor at the São Paulo Law School of the Fundação Getulio Vargas. Director of the Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos Constitucionais

Soraya Gasparetto Lunardi, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)

Professora Livre Docente em Direito Constitucional, Direitos Fundamentais da UNESP. Coordena como Líder do Projeto financiado pelo CNPQ: Análise qualitativa das leis de políticas públicas para implementação do direito social à habitação. Doutora em Direito pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2006). Pós-doutorado pela Universidade Politécnica de Atenas (2007). Avaliadora da CAPES, do CNPQ (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico), FAPESP (Fundo de Apoio a Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo). Professora convidada na pós graduação da Universitat Autónoma Barcelona. Autora de mais de 100 estudos publicados em diversos países como: Estados Unidos, Itália, Grécia, Bolívia, Turquia, Portugal e Brasil. Tem experiência na área de Direitos Fundamentais Sociais, Direito Constitucional, Direito Processual Constitucional, Direito Administrativo e Políticas Públicas. Professora Pesquisadora com Bolsa Produtividade - CNPQ. Participa de Rede internacional de Pesquisa Minority Groups Research Centre (KEMO). Nomeada pelo presidente da Câmara dos Deputados, Rodrigo Maia, membro da comissão de juristas, presidida pelo ministro Gilmar Mendes, do STF, para criar anteprojeto de lei para sistematizar as regras do processo constitucional - Código de Processo Constitucional.

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The Persistent Unconstitutionality of the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange under the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne

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