Tag Archives: Muslim minority

Turkey is once again “distorting reality in order to serve other purposes and certainly not to promote the rights and welfare of the Muslim Minority in Thrace,” the Greek Foreign Ministry said in an announcement on Sunday. The Foreign Ministry in Athens was responding to Turkish posts concerning the Muslim …

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Τurkish officials do not miss a chance to accuse Greece of any claim coming into their minds and Greece-obsessed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused Greece of undermining the rights of the Muslim minority in the country’s northeastern Thrace region. “The unfair and unlawful practices against the Muslim Turkish …

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Greece’s Foreign Ministry reacted to the claim by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu calling the “Muslim minority” in north-eastern Greece “Turkish minority.” Furthermore, it was only Athens that reacted with anger, it was also the Pomaks* in Thrace, who warned the Turkish FM to not visit their villages and that …

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Turkey’s Deputy Foreign Minister Yavuz Selim Kiran came to Greece to claim that the Muslim minority in he country is “Turkish.” Loyal to official Ankara, he once again accused Greece of violating the rights of the minority, curbing religious and linguistic freedoms. After visiting Thessaloniki and the north-east province of …

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A Turkish NGO has slammed Greece for closing five minority schools due to low enrollment. The NGO claims Greece restricts right of education of Turks in Western Thrace, home to “Muslim Turkish minority of some 150,000.” The NGO has complained for the closure of the five minority schools in Thrace, …

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The chairman of a small political party based in Thrace, home of the Muslim minority in Greece, has reportedly filed a lawsuit against former Foreign Minister, Theodoros Pangalos for having said on a radio interview “A good Turk is a dead Turk.” On 13. February Theodoros Pangalos was invited to …

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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has announced that a bill will be introduced to limit the jurisdiction of  Sharia Law in Thrace, home of a strong Muslim minority in North-Eastern of the country. Greece is the last European country to recognize the validity of the Islamic Sharia law which settles mostly …

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For one more time, Turkey has been fueling tension with Greece with a series of outrageous statements and actions. During a visit to North-East Greece, a Turkish Deputy Prime Minister claimed that the Muslim minority in Thrace were “Turkish citizens.” At the same time, Ankara sent a military helicopter over …

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