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May 23 2021 08:41 Gmt+3
Last Updated On: May 23 2021 08:43 Gmt+3
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry has called on Greece to end its denial of the existence of a Turkish minority in the Western Thrace region of the neighbouring country.
On Saturday, the ministry shared a statement made by the Western Thrace Turkish Minority Advisor Board that criticised recent remarks by Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. In a video conference, Mitsotakis referred to a village called Pasevik by its Greek name Pomakohoria and for referring to the region’s children as Ellinopula or “Greek children.”
“We support this statement of the Western Thrace Turkish Minority Advisory Board and once again invite Greece to end the denial of the Turkish identity of our kinsmen living in Greece and to implement the ECHR rulings in this direction,” said the Turkish Foreign Ministry in a tweet.
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In response to the provocations made by the Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister during his trip to Thessaloniki today, government spokeswoman Aristotelia Peloni said that Greece’s success “disturbs” Turkey.
Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Yavuz Selim Kıran unashamedly said on Twitter that the so-called Turkish community face “restrictions on freedom of language, religion and worship.”
Kıran visiting Ataturk’s birth house in Thessaloniki – May 5, 2021.
He also claimed that “our kinsmen […] conserve their identity and religion against all odds.”
In speaking to
SKAI, Peloni said “these statements do not help to establish a good atmosphere in bilateral relations” and that his comments “increase tensions.”
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