Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan did it again, calling the Greek Muslim citizens of Thrace "Turks" and speaking of rights ...

Western Thrace’s diversity is a vestige of the Treaty of Lausanne, which on 30 January 1923 dissolved the Ottoman Empire and mandated a population exchange between Greece and Turkey along the ...

In Western Thrace, a group glued under the collective identity ‘Muslim minority’ experienced a radical challenging of their belonging to their homelands.

KOMOTINI (AA) - January 23, 2013 - Once used to mark the Islamic prayers five times a day, some of the iconic Ottoman clock towers in Western Thrace still remain intact as reminders of the region ...

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 ...

Greece's Western Thrace region – in the country’s northeast, near the Turkish border – is home to a substantial, long-established Muslim Turkish minority numbering around 150,000.

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 ...

That region is Western Thrace, a part of Greece adjoining the land border with Turkey. Alexis Tsipras, Greece’s leftist prime minister, is about to introduce legislation that will change that ...

A century after Muslims and Christians were divided between Greece and Turkey, the rival neighbours tussle over a minority that avoided the carve up It’s a Tuesday night in Komotini. Copious ...