Greece Rejects Turkish Minister’s Comments on Muslim Minority

Greece Rejects Turkish Minister’s Comments on Muslim Minority
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu meets with clerics and representatives of Muslim community in Komotini, Greece, on May 30, 2021. Cem Ozdel/Turkish Foreign Ministry /Handout via Reuters
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ATHENS—Greece reacted angrily on Sunday to a statement by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu that described members of a Muslim minority in northern Greece as Turkish and that said they were not accorded full civic rights.

The statement by Cavusoglu, during a private visit to the northern Greek region of Thrace on Sunday, came ahead of his official meetings on Monday with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias in Athens.