(Anadolu) Greece does not recognize the Turkish community living in Western Thrace as an ethnic minority, thus violating a major international treaty, Türkiye’s top diplomat said on Thursday.
“Greece persistently continues to violate the Lausanne Treaty and basic human rights of Turkish minority. Our brothers in Western Thrace were never and shall never be alone!” Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Twitter.
Cavusoglu’s remarks came after he met with members of the advisory board of the Turkish minority of Western Thrace in Türkiye’s capital Ankara.
The Western Thrace region — located near Greece’s northeastern border with Türkiye — is home to a substantial, long-established Muslim Turkish minority numbering around 150,000.
