(Kathimerini) Turkish Minister of Education Yusuf Tekin accused Greece of shutting down schools belonging to the Muslim minority in Thrace during a speech on Sunday.
Tekin claimed that the number of Muslim minority schools in the region has been reduced to just one-fourth of what existed at the time of the Treaty of Lausanne.
“We must ensure the right to education for the ‘Turkish [sic] minority’ in Western Thrace. It is remarkable that, in Greece, the number of schools belonging to our compatriots and friends in Western Thrace, who are identified as a ‘Turkish [sic] minority,’ has now been reduced to exactly one-fourth of the number that existed at the time of the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne,” he stated.
