LAUSANNE

Athens on Tuesday rebuffed comments by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu who referred to the Muslim minority in Western Thrace as a "Turkish minority."

Top Turkish officials on Feb. 18 slammed Greece's president for mislabeling the Muslim Turkish minority in a region of Greece bordering Turkey as a "Greek Muslim minority".

Defence Minister Nikos Papagiotopoulos denied the public statement of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Athens agreed with Ankara not to approach the Imia islets on the anniversary of the 1996 dispute over their sovereignty brought the two countries to the brink of war.

Erdogan's remark triggered a political backlash in Athens.

The Armenian population in Turkey, which makes up the largest Christian community in the country, "resembles an iceberg melting in the sea" with its some 60,000 members, the newly elected Armenian Orthodox Patriarch of Istanbul has said.

"This is actually quite powerful. I'm aware of this now," Maze told the STA on the sidelines of the Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she has been cheering young athletes.

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg marched with 10,000 protesters in the Swiss city of Lausanne on Jan. 17 and said "you have not seen anything yet" before some head to Davos next week to challenge the global financial elite to fight climate change.

Sofia is ranked 297th among the 4440 cities the list of the most expensive cities in the world. Our maritime capital Varna ranks 333rd, Plovdiv - 339th and Burgas - 358th.

Athens on Thursday reacted to remarks by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu earlier in the day in which he reiterated his country's claims regarding "grey zones" of undetermined sovereignty in the Aegean Sea.

Turkey's Foreign Minister reiterated his country's long-standing claims on the existence of "grey zones" in the Aegean Sea in a televised interview on CNN Turk on Thursday evening.
Mevlut Cavusoglu said "there are islands whose sovereignty has not been established" either in the Treaty of Lausanne or in the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in an interview with To Vima and Angelos Athanasopoulos says that Ankara in principle Ankara is not opposed to the spirit of the 1982 UN law of the sea convention and it agrees with many provisions in international law.