Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The Lausanne Treaty is not open to interpretation, regarding the Muslim minority in Thrace

“The Muslim Minority of Thrace is simply a spiritual minority. The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, which governs its ineligible status, is not unfastened to aggregate interpretations, and its spiritual and not taste quality is indisputable,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed successful a connection successful effect to Ankara’s provocations.

In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said that the Lausanne Treaty “does not see immoderate proviso for the predetermination of Muftis by the Minority, nor could this beryllium the lawsuit fixed that they are additionally entrusted with judicial and administrative responsibilities.”

The predetermination of the Mufti is based connected Law 4964/2022, which provides for the constitution of a committee of number members to measure and nominate the astir qualified candidates. This authorities “completed the assignment of the caller Mufti of Didymoteicho, portion the notices for filling the positions of the Muftis of Xanthi and Komotini person already been published. And this portion successful Turkey itself the Muftis are appointed.”

“Greece, arsenic a European authorities governed by the regularisation of law, handles the issues of the Muslim number successful Thrace with implicit responsibility, based connected the principles of equality and freedom, and supra all, it ensures the spiritual state of its members. This volition not change, conscionable arsenic the sanction of the Minority arsenic provided for by planetary law, volition not alteration due to the fact that immoderate radical garbage to judge the perfectly obvious,” the Foreign Ministry concluded.