(Kathimerini) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed that the “problems of Western Thrace” was the “main issue” he raised with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at their meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius on Wednesday.
“We want to overcome these [problems], to overcome the issue with the muftis,” the Turkish president said, referring to the procedures used to appoint clerics for the Muslim minority in Thrace, northeastern Greece.
Under Greek law, muftis are appointed by the state, as they are in Turkey, but Turkey has called for the Thrace muftis to be elected by the minority community.
