Komotini
Teen arrested in Rhodope for transporting migrants
A 17-year-old foreign national was arrested in northern Greece on Friday for transporting in a car six migrants who did not have the legal documents that would allow them to enter the country.
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Greece’s Unrecognised Turkish Minority Takes Plight to UN
A Muslim in Athens praying in a new mosque, the first official place of worship for Muslims in Athens, 2019. Photo: EPA-EFE/ORESTI PANAGIOTOU
The letter focuses on its educational and religious problems and its legal harassment for use of the word "Turkish".
East Macedonia & Thrace development blueprint
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis presented the government's Eastern Macedonia & Thrace 2030 Development Program in the northern Greek city of Komotini on Friday, the premier's second stop on his day tour of the region after Xanthi.
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Mitsotakis: No stepping back from construction of border fence
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has vowed he will not "step back from the protection of the [country's] borders and the safety of people living in border areas," during a speech at an event in the northeastern city of Komotini.
The premier was presenting the government's development plan for Eastern Macedonia and Thrace during a visit to the region.
One dead, three injured as migrant van overturns
A van carrying migrants in northern Greece crashed on Sunday killing one of the passengers and injuring at least three others, police say.
The vehicle was traveling on the Egnatia Highway connecting Alexandroupolis with Komotini when it overturned under unknown circumstances.
The van was not being pursued.
Police are still looking for the driver of the van.
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Porto Lagos: The village in Xanthi with the flamingos and the impressive, floating monastery
A water-filled land on the borders with Komotini that makes the best of lake Vistonida’s majestic glory
Turkish minority in Xanthi elects religious leader
Mustafa Trampa has been elected as the new religious leader, mufti, of Xanthi by the Turks of the Western Thrace region on Sept. 9, amid the ongoing pressure on the Greek government for over 30 years.
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IGB: Greece-Bulgaria pipeline in the final stretch
At noon at the under construction (double) measuring station of IGB in Komotini and the pace of work in progress has hit "red", with cars belonging to the constructor, AVAX, constantly coming and going in the area, transporting workers and raw materials.
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Turkey urges Greece to end pressure against elected muftis in Western Thrace
Greece must put an end to its interventionist practices and policies of pressure against Muslim religious leaders elected by the Turkish minority in Western Thrace, Turkey's foreign minister said on Sept. 4.
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Identity Geopolitics: Nation, Faith and the Roma of Western Thrace
The house was in a sprawl of cinder-block shanties on the eastern edge of the town. Two Greek flags hung near the approach. Beyond them lay the Muslim cemetery. The women served coffee, accompanied by the usual jokes about whether to call it Greek or Turkish. The correct term, of course, depended on where you happened to be.