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Unfortunate Statement by Piraeus Metropolitan Serafim
11.07.2011
Piraeus Metropolitan Serafim has criticized Anna Diamandopoulou, Minister of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs, for the prospect employment of 250 religion teachers as officials in mosques in Western Thrace. According to Gündem, Serafim issued a written statement accusing Minister Diamandopoulou for forgetting their national his...
Minority schools are going to be merged!
18.04.2011
On 11 April 2011, the Greek Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs an-nounced that in an attempt to increase the education, the schools in Thrace were going to be re-structured. According to the statement on the website of the Ministry, in order to accelerate the process for incensement of the quality of education and to ens...
Atrocity in the village of Ircan!
04.03.2011
On 2 March 2011, the sheep pen of Fikret Fikret in the Ircan village in Komotini, Greece was at-tacked by an unidentified person or persons. The assailants killed thirty of sheep in the pen.* According to the news published in the newspaper Birlik, the herdsman Sali Fikret stated that the throat of the sheep had been cut, but none of them had been ...
PM tours Thrace, visits Muslim minority village
23.02.2011
Prime Minister George Papandreou, who arrived for a tour of the extreme northeastern province of Thrace on Friday, pledged to settle the problems faced by the local Muslim minority. On Friday he visited the village of Dimario near the Greek-Bulgarian borders, where he met with local people. This is the first time a Greek prime minister has ...
Tense moments between the TV Frans 3 team and people in the village of Ilıca(Thermes)
29.09.2010
On 28 September 2010, there were tense moments in the village of Ilıca (Thermes) in Xanthi, Greece when the French public television TV Frans 3 with the President of “Xanthi Pomac Association” İmam Ahmet filmed Ilıca Minority School and Ilıca Mosque without prior information or permission. The daily newspaper of the Turkish minority of Western Thra...
Muslim cemetery of Pospos and Ifestos districts in Komotini, Greece desecrated
16.08.2010
Vandals desecrated the Muslim cemetery of Pospos(Poşpoş) and Ifestos(Kalkanca) districts in the northern city of Komotini, Greece late on Friday, on 13 August 2010. The unidentified assailants destroyed more than twenty gravestones in the cemetery, and according to the the news of daily Birlik, they spray painted “The Consulate General, Get Out” an...
Gravestones in the districts of Kahveci and Kirmahalle of Komotini destroyed
20.05.2010
Some gravestones in the cemeteries of Kahveci and Kirmahalle of the city Komotini, Greece have been destroyed by an unknown person or a group of persons. According to the news of daily Olay, it was supposed that the attacks had been occured in the previous days, and mainly the cemetery of Kahveci had been destroyed.* After a woman had called the...
Attack against the Turkish Youth Union of Komotini
22.03.2010
On 21 March 2010, an attack took place against the Turkish Youth Union of Komotini. During the attack on Sunday night around 03:00 am, an unidentified person or persons broke the windows of the building with paving stones.* According to the news of daily Birlik, the attacker did not damage any goods inside the building. According to the news, teams...
Eleftheri Thraki: Lawyers demand removal of the Sharia in Thrace
12.03.2010
On 9 March 2010, the newspaper Eleftheri Thraki published with its “Lawyers demand the removal of the Sharia in Thrace” titled news that lawyers, who had spoken at the event organized by the Human Rights Group of the Ecologist Greens Party, demanded the removal of the Sharia application in Thrace. According to the news, President of the Xanthi B...
Ahmet Haciosman brought the issue of former Article 19 on the agenda of the Assembly Commission
12.02.2010
On 10 February 2010, Pasok deputy of Rhodope, Ahmet Haciosman, raised the issue of Western Thrace Turks, who have lost their citizenship due to the former Article 19 of the Greek Citizen-ship Law, on the agenda of the Commission for Public Administration, Public Order and Justice. Haciosman claimed that an additional substance should be included to...
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