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"The Muslim Minority of Thrace is a religious minority. The Treaty of Lausanne of 1923, which governs its legal status, does not allow for multiple interpretations, and its religious-not its ethnic-character is indisputable," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized on Thursday in its response to the Turkish Foreign Ministry regarding the Muslim minority of Thrace.

Following statements by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan regarding Greek-Turkish relations, and his repeated reference to a “Turkish minority in Western Thrace,” diplomatic sources provided the following clarifications:

Turkey is once again "distorting reality in order to serve other purposes and certainly not to promote the rights and welfare of the Muslim Minority in Thrace," the Greek foreign ministry commented in an announcement on Sunday, in response to Turkish posts concerning the minority in Greece.