20100417 Grave Ahmet Sadik Komotini Rhodope Greece

Sadik Achmet ( el, Σαδίκ Αχμέτ, tr, Sâdık Ahmet) (1 January 1947 – 24 July 1995) was a Greek doctor of medicine and politician of Turkish ethnicity. He founded the

Party of Friendship, Equality and Peace The Party of Friendship, Equality and Peace ( el, Κόμμα Ισότητας, Ειρήνης και Φιλίας, abbr. Κ.Ι.Ε.Φ., KIEF; tr, Dostluk-Eşitlik-Barış Partisi, DEBP) is a Greek political party founded to represent the intere ...

. 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

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are Turks, and because he referred to himself as "Turk" in his election pamphlet. After a two-day trial he was found guilty of

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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". Sadik Achmet died in a controversial car accident when his car along with his wife and family drove into a tractor. Most Turkish politicians rejected that his death was a staged political assassination and not an accident.

Sources

Achmet, Sadik
profile on his party page.

References

1947 births 1995 deaths People from Komotini Greek people of Turkish descent Greek MPs 1989–1990 Greek MPs 1990–1993 Turkish nationalists Road incident deaths in Greece Greek MPs 1989 (June–November) {{Greece-politician-stub