Tsipras meets PM amid confrontation over Muslim minority in Thrace

Leftist leader Alexis Tsipras has met with Greece's interim Prime Minister Ioannis Sarmas amid the confrontation between SYRIZA and New Democracy over the Muslim minority in the northern Thrace region.

Conservative officials have alleged that the May 21 election result in the constituency of Rodopi, the only one in which New Democracy failed to win a majority, was the result of propaganda and machinations by the Turkish consulate.

Following the meeting at Maximos Mansion on Monday morning, Tsipras accused New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis of exploiting the issue of the minority ahead of the new elections on June 25, adding that "it has now escalated into a major institutional and national concern."

Tsipras also expressed his concern "regarding the targeting and blackmailing of the Greek Muslim minority in Thrace, a practice that divides the local...