Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke on Friday of the Muslim community’s integration into Greek society, during a speech to Muslim community leaders at a hotel in Komotini,Thrace his last stop in his two-day visit to Greece.
Erdogan noted that any ethnic backgrounds that exist in Turkey constitute one people. “The same applies to Greece. Whatever ethnic backgrounds exist, they all constitute one people,” he said, adding that as Turkey has one flag, so does Greece which “cannot be put aside”.
“We are not talking about assimilation but about your integration into Greece,” he said.
He left Komotini shortly before five in the afternoon to go to the airport in Alexadroupolis, from where he flew back to Turkey.
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