“THEN Turkey once again distorts reality in Thrace,” the statement reads. Ministry of Foreign Affairs on matters relating to Muslim minority.

In fact, he emphasizes that it is at least an oxymoron when a country with the worst human rights record leaves Greece due to the violation of the rights of the Muslim minority in Thrace.

He points out that Greece, a modern European democracy, has a structured minority policy that promotes the welfare of the minority. A minority of about 120,000 members, that is, the same number as the period of the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne, to which Turkey systematically refers, adds and emphasizes that it is doubtful how she refers to Lausanne and speaks of its violation from Greece. , while in Constantinople, Imbro and Tenedos the Greek minority numbered less than 3,000 souls, while at the time of the signing of the treaty it numbered about 130,000. He notes that this reality was recently reminded by the EU statement in the context of the 77th UN General Assembly “on the earlier policy of discrimination pursued by Turkey, as a result of which the Greek minority in Turkey is today on the verge of extinction. “The statement speaks for itself, just as the numbers speak for themselves, and show in the most remarkable way who really implements the Lausanne Treaty and who follows a minority policy that respects human rights, he emphasizes.

In this context, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses the hope that this incomprehensible truth about the numbers will become a springboard for Turkey to finally reflect on its responsibilities in the field of minority politics.

Ultimately, he urges Turkey, instead of teaching human rights lessons, to clean up its house and pursue a policy that will once again give life and dynamism to the Greek minority.