Turkey slams Greece over closing of minority schools in Western Thrace, a region with a large Turkish Muslim minority
Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hami Aksoy holds a press conference at the ministry in Ankara, Turkey. December 06, 2019.
Athens' practice of "temporary suspension" of minority schools in Western Thrace – with a population of 150,000 Muslim Turkish minority – is part of Greece’s “assimilation and oppression” policy, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy.“have been followed for decades against the Turkish minority in Western Thrace," read the statement.
Underscoring that Athens’s policy violates the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, Aksoy called on Greece to end its policy of using pretexts to violate the education rights of minority children and to instead reopen these schools.
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