“Greece is constantly emphasizing the safeguarding of the rights of the Muslim minority of Thrace, a religious minority in accordance with the Treaty of Lausanne,” Deputy Foreign Minister George Kotsiras said today at the high level meeting of the 58th Synod of the UN Human Rights Council.

“Members enjoy both special protection as a religious minority in accordance with the Treaty and their full rights as Greeks and EU citizens. And from this step, I would like to repeat Greece’s steady support for a fair and viable solution to the Cyprus Council. This solution would be the best guarantee for the rights of all Cypriots, “he added.

His statements come one day, after Turkey’s Deputy Foreign Minister and head of the European Union Directorate Mehmet Kemal Bozay spoke of Greek citizens of “Turkish descent” living in the Dodecanese and their rights are seriously violated by Greece.

At the same time, the Turkish deputy minister spoke of basic rights and freedoms of the “Turkish minority” in “Western Thrace” which are also not respected and also referred to “Turkish Cypriots” for which the international community should, according to what they say, reaffirmly reaffirm. Natural rights.

Bozay, in more detail, was placed online at the launch of the 58th UN Human Rights Council meeting and spoke of a “Turkish Cypriot people” who were deprived of his natural rights, such as dominant equality and equal international regime under the threat of weapons in 1963.

On the basis of the above, he called for this “systematic violation, including his inhumane embargo and his unfair isolation”.

He went on to say that the most basic rights and freedoms of the “Turkish minority” in “Western Thrace” and the Greek citizens of “Turkish descent” living in the Dodecanese have seriously violated

In closing, he called on the UN Human Rights Council to take action to ensure that the “ethnic identity” and the rights of the ‘Turks’ there are duly respected by Greece.