Muslim minority of Greece
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.
Greek foreign ministry answers Cavusoglu regarding Muslim minority of Thrace
When Turkish ministers visit Thrace, there are always concerns about references to a Turkish minority in the region, even though the Lausanne Treaty defines the minority as a religious one.
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The Greek PM addressed the kindergarten kids as Greeks in Thrace
Turkey invites Greece to end denial of Turkish minority’s identity
Ankara on May 22 urged Athens to end its denial of the identity of Turkish minority living in Greece.
Greece does not show Turkish descendants respect, says Erdoğan
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on April 17 condemned the latest move by Greece on appointing the chief mufti and Athens' treatment of Turkish descendants in Western Thrace.
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Exploratory contacts resume with low expectations
Exploratory contacts between Greece and Turkey resume Monday at Istanbul's Swissotel, with Athens having particularly low expectations of a substantial outcome due to the different agendas set by both sides.
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Turkish ministry reacts strongly to Greek FM’s remarks about minorities
The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Tuesday slammed comments made by Greece's foreign affairs chief regarding the Greek minority in Imvros, Tenedos and Istanbul as "tragicomic," and went on to accuse Greece of carrying out a "policy of assimilation and repression" on the Muslim minority of Thrace.
Turkey condemns 'racist threat message' in Greece
Turkey slammed a "racist threat message" on Nov. 28 in northeastern Greece written on an elevator of an apartment building that is the residence of Mufti Ahmet Mete of Xanthi.
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Ministry rejects Turkish claims about Muslim minority as laughable
The Greek Foreign Ministry dismissed accusations by Turkey on Wednesday that Greece is oppressing its Muslim community in Western Thrace as "paradoxical, if not funny."
"History will forever be the most objective witness to the way in which Turkey has systematically eliminated all minorities in its territory during the 20th century," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.