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Mevlut Cavusoglu, the Turkish Foreign Minister, arrived on Sunday morning in Greece, ahead of a two-day visit that aims to boost the turbulent relations between Ankara and Athens.

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu wrote a tweet on Tuesday in which he not only called the Muslim minority of Western Thrace ''Turkish,'' but also used a derogatory tone against Greece, its President and its democracy itself. It all began...

The leader of the Muslim minority party in Thrace complained that the Greek State does not consult with them on issues that concern them in an interview with Turkey's Anadolu Agency. The Friendship, Equality and Peace Party (KIEF) often claims...

The spokesperson of the Turkish Foreign Ministry Hami Aksoy issued a statement on Friday in regard to religious issues of the Muslim minority in Greece's region of Western Thrace, with Athens responding by issuing a tough statement on Saturday. ''Greece...

This editorial was published in Hellas Journal in Greek by Nikos Meletis The Greek State is perpetuating the mistake of allowing Turkey to use the Greek Muslim minority in Thrace for irredentist and expansionist purposes. The Greek Muslims were used once...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Friday once again called people belonging to the Muslim minority of Western Thrace "Turks" whose rights are being violated by Greece. The statement came in response to a European Court of Human Rights decision...

Changing a century-old legacy, the Greek parliament voted overwhelmingly to make the practice of Islamic sharia law in family disputes optional for the country's Muslim minority on Tuesday. The bill on Sharia law is a historic step for Greece, Prime...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is visiting Thrace on Friday; the second day of his official visit to Greece. Accompanied by his wife Emine, and members of the Turkish government, Erdogan arrived in the town of Komotini, where a substantial...

The visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Athens started in controversy as he clashed with his Greek counterpart Prokopis Pavlopoulos during introductory remarks at the presidential Palace in Athens. In his welcoming remarks, Pavlopoulos made a point of...

The Western Thrace Muslim minority party issued a pamphlet in Turkish calling on Muslims to act against the alleged suppression by the Greek state. The Friendship, Equality and Peace party (FEP) distributed the pamphlet calling on Muslims to rally in...

The Muslim minority at the Greek province of Thrace was quick to react to the news that eight military officials involved in the failed military coup in Turkey were seeking political asylum in Greece. Greek daily newspaper To Vima reports...

Greece’s main opposition party SYRIZA is in the spotlight after one of its candidates for May’s local elections representing the country’s Muslim minority in western Thrace was forced to resign on Wednesday over alleged connections with Turkey’s neo-fascist political scene. The SYRIZA...

The self-called Advisory Committee of the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace sent a controversial and provocative letter to the Ministry of Education asking for a change in the chapter on the Asia Minor catastrophe included in the elementary history...

Prime Minister George Papandreou, who arrived for a tour of the extreme northeastern[...]

Alexandros Gennimatas, the spokesperson for the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, issued a statement on Friday in response to the provocative Turkish allegations against Greece published on Thursday. ''Turkey’s insistence on distorting history is unbecoming of a modern state,'' Gennimatas...