Greek authorities are hesitating to give minority rights to Muslim Turks in Western Thrace, said Turkish deputy premier on Wednesday. Western Thrace region of Greece is home to around 150,000 ...

Queen Olga of Greece has passed incognita through the Bosphorus on her way to Odessa in her steam yacht. The Sultan sent on board an aide-de-camp with his compliments and a magnificent collection ...

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 ...

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 ...

From the exchange were exempted the ‘Muslims’ of Western Thrace and the Greek-Orthodox from Istanbul, Gökçeada and Bozcaada, creating the respective minorities in either country.

A similar fate was faced by an Ottoman-era building in Komotini (Gumulcine), a city in Western Thrace, Greece, built in the 1390s. Western Thrace is still home to a Muslim-Turkish minority of ...

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 ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wrapped up a tense visit to Greece on Friday with a brief trip to the northeastern region of Thrace, the home of a Muslim minority of mainly ethnic Turkish ...