Athens rejects Turkish complaints on Thrace minority

[InTime News]

Greece connected Thursday rejected complaints by neighboring Turkey implicit the spiritual rights of the Greek Muslim colonisation successful Thrace.

A Foreign Ministry statement said Athens protects the spiritual freedoms of the number – which Turkey refers to arsenic an taste Turkish group.

“The Muslim number of Thrace is simply a spiritual minority,” the statement said, under the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne that followed the Greek-Turkish war of 1919-22. “There is nary disputing its spiritual alternatively than taste nature.”

The statement added that the treaty contains nary notation to the number electing its ain spiritual leaders, arsenic Turkey is demanding.