Editing Right of return (section)

=== Greece ===
Various phenomena throughout Greek history (the extensive colonization by classical Greek city states, the vast expansion of Greek culture in Hellenistic times, the large dominions at times held by the Greek-speaking [[Byzantine Empire]], and the energetic trading activity by Greeks under the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]]) all tended to create Greek communities far beyond the boundaries of modern Greece.

Recognizing this situation, Greece grants citizenship to broad categories of people of ethnic Greek ancestry who are members of the Greek diaspora, including individuals and families whose ancestors have been resident in diaspora communities outside the modern state of Greece for centuries or millennia.<ref>[http://athens.usembassy.gov/uploads/7z/Z4/7zZ4A6EyE4dMjph5dNxFew/citizenship_code.pdf US Embassy in Athens] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705222308/http://athens.usembassy.gov/uploads/7z/Z4/7zZ4A6EyE4dMjph5dNxFew/citizenship_code.pdf |date=2008-07-05 }}</ref>

"Foreign persons of Greek origin", who neither live in Greece nor hold [[Greek citizenship]] nor were necessarily born there, may become Greek citizens by enlisting in Greece's military forces, under article 4 of the ''Code of Greek Citizenship'', as amended by the  ''Acquisition of Greek Nationality by Aliens of Greek Origin Law'' (Law 2130/1993). Anyone wishing to do so must present a number of documents, including "[a]vailable written records ... proving the Greek origin of the interested person and his ancestors".

[[Albania]] has demanded since the 1940s that Greece grant a right of return to the Muslim [[Cham Albanians]], who were [[Expulsion of Cham Albanians|expelled]] from the Greek region of [[Epirus (region)|Epirus]] between 1944 and 1945, at the end of [[World War II]] – a demand firmly rejected by the Greeks (see [[Cham issue]]).