(Kathimerini) Greece on Monday reiterated that the Treaty of Lausanne, the 1923 agreement that established the borders of Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey after the end of World War I, “explicitly refers to a religious and not an ethnic minority in Thrace.”
“The Greek State fully respects the religious beliefs and cultural particularities of the Muslim minority in Thrace. It reserves for Greek citizens, members of the minority, complete equality and citizenship,” the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press release.
The comment came after Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said it was marking the 98th anniversary of the so-called “Xanthi Turkish Union” in Greece’s northeastern region with a post on social media platform X.
