56_184 interference 184. The Commission notes that, according to the Council of State, the applicants were punished for serious disobedience, a disciplinary offence, in that they had failed to attend the educational meeting of 1 February 1993 in order to participate in a strike. Moreover, according to the Council of State, dismissal was the appropriate penalty in the particular circumstances of the case because the applicants had associated their failure to attend the meeting in question with the statements of certain organisations which affirmed the "Turkish" identity of the minority of Western Thrace and, by doing so, they, inter alia, disrupted the harmonious coexistence between the