The fundamental source of rights for the Turkish Muslim minority of Western Thrace is the 1923 Lausanne Treaty, which was concluded within the framework of the Lausanne Conference. The conference ...

A marginalised Muslim Roma border community is courted by Greece and Turkey, seeking to advance their strategic interests. Illustration: Sanja Pantic/BIRN The Fellowship brings you longform stories ...

This report examines the situation of the ethnic Turkish minority of Thrace, a region of Greece. It serves as a follow-up to two earlier reports issued by Human Rights Watch, Destroying Ethnic ...

AS PART of a passionate campaign to solve an apparently non-existent problem, American state legislatures have been presented, over the past decade, with at least 120 bills that sought to outlaw the ...

During his trip to Greece, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Babacan also visited the area of Western Thrace where there is a considerable Turkish minority. Discrimination against Turks A Human Rights ...

On the acropolis of ancient Abdera in western Thrace, within the fortress of Polystylon, archaeologists discovered a cemetery dating to the final throes of the battle between local Byzantine occupants ...

An ethnic minority party in Greece has written to the UN documenting the problems faced by the Turkish minority living in Western Thrace. A Muslim in Athens praying in a new mosque, the first official ...

Fatih Dönmez said that nuclear energy is in demand as a new alternative clean energy source both in Europe and many developed countries, as it would provide zero emissions. Energy and Natural ...

This report examines the situation of the ethnic Turkish minority of Thrace, a region of Greece. It serves as a follow-up to two earlier reports issued by Human Rights Watch, Destroying Ethnic ...