(Anadolu) A key EU body on Thursday urged Athens to respect European court human rights rulings meant to protect Greece’s ethnic Turkish minority, including the 150,000-strong Turkish community in the northeast.
Meeting in Strasbourg, France, the European Council Ministerial Committee expressed deep concern that 15 years since clear European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rulings, there still has been no registration of minority groups, while the Iskece Turkish Union remains illegally shuttered.
In a statement, the EU body said despite Greece’s passage of laws in 2017 allowing relevant court cases to go forward, the Turkish minority’s applicants have now exhausted the possibilities available to them within the domestic system.
