Greek court hands blow to Turkish minority

Greece’s Supreme Court ruled in favour of maintaining the ban of the Turkish Association of Xanthi, on the grounds of national security, the AFP news agency cited officials as saying.
Greek prosecutors had sought to have the association banned on the grounds that by using the word Turkish in its name it served the interest of a foreign country in the attempt to appear a Turkish minority in Greece.
Xanthi, a town in the north west of Greece, is home to a large number of Turks of Greek nationality who are part of Greece’s 100,000 strong Turkish speaking Muslim minority.
The association was first banned in 1984, with the appeals process taking some 20 years. The decision of the Supreme Court cannot be appealed.