The Iskece (Xanthi) province’s municipality of Bulustra (Avdira) has made an try and construct a soccer subject over an Ottoman-era Muslim cemetery in Horozlu (Petinos).
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Greece’s 150,000-strong Turkish-Muslim group are voicing their concern in regards to the nation aiming to erase the legacy of the Ottoman-Turkish historical past in Western Thrace, courting again so far as the 14th century.
Suspicions flared up after an try by the Iskece (Xanthi) province’s municipality of Bulustra (Avdira) to construct a soccer subject over an Ottoman-era Muslim cemetery in Horozlu (Petinos).
Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Burhan Baran, a deputy with the leftist opposition PASOK get together, mentioned the group elected members for the board of trustees, which might be in control of following the case, however Greek authorities nonetheless haven’t authorized the method.
“It would be only natural to be suspicious about the reasons behind this,” he mentioned.
Baran defined that they met competent Greek authorities, together with these from the schooling and spiritual affairs ministries, and consequently achieved to halt the municipality’s plans over the cemetery.
“What I want is to protect this cemetery that is a historical heritage, one of the elements uniting us,” he emphasised.
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Greater plan
Speaking to Anadolu, Cengiz Omer, a distinguished native journalist, argued that the municipality’s try is a part of a higher plan of eradicating properties and estates belonging to foundations of the minority group.
The head of the municipality that tried to construct the soccer subject over the cemetery is understood for his anti-Turkish sentiments, he added.
All in all, Omer mentioned, it’s an ill-intentioned plan which goals to brush the legacy of hundred years of Turkish-Ottoman presence within the area.
The rights of the Turks of Western Thrace are assured beneath the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, however over the many years the scenario has severely deteriorated, together with Greece refusing to hold out rulings by the European Court of Human Rights.
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