Western Thrace

Maximos Mansion responded late and unofficially on last week's irredentist comments made by Turkish Vice President Hakan Cavusoglu during his visit to Muslim minorities of Western Thrace. Cavusoglu's visit was in preparation for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's visit to Greece,...

Turkey's Greece-born deputy prime minister Hakan Cavusoglu met representatives of the Western Thrace Muslim minority in his hometown, Komotini, according to Anadolu news agency. Cavusoglu had been in Athens since Thursday ahead of a historic trip by President Recep Tayyip...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave what seemed like a prelude to war while speaking at a Turkish University. He said that "Turkey isn't just Turkey," adding that apart from its 79 million citizens there were hundreds of thousands...

Turkey is seriously considering reopening The Greek Orthodox Halki Seminary in Istanbul. The EU Minister Egemen Bağış thinks this could also mean that Greece would build a mosque in Athens, as promised. The Theological School of Halki was founded in 1844...

Greece ought to take some steps forward to address grievances of the Turkish minority in Western Thrace. This would as a result help the Turkish government towards the reopening of a Greek Orthodox theological seminary on the island of...

The Greek Ministry of Education, according to the Government Gazette, announced that it temporarily shut down 12 Muslim minority schools in Western Thrace as part of the financial austerity measures taken at educational facilities as well as on the...