The reaction of a group of important Arab countries, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon and Bahrain caused her effort Turkey To pass through the decisions of the Islamic Cooperation Organization that met on the weekend in Istanbul.
The reaction was even expressed in the presence of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hakan Fidan, decisions promoting Turkish positions on the Cyprus issue and the supposed “Turkish” minority of Thrace and the “Turkish” community of the Dodecanese.
As reflected in OIC’s decisions, The delegations of Egypt and Bahrain expressed reservations For paragraph 24 of the Constantinople Declaration on Turkish Cypriots and paragraph 25 on the “Turkish” Muslim minority In West Thrace and Muslim population in the Dodecanese in Greece.
Paragraph 24 specifically states: “We support the aspirations of the Muslim Turkish Cypriots to safeguard their inherent rights and emphasize the importance of a negotiated, mutually acceptable, just, continuous and sustainable solution to the Cyprus issue, as well as the need to develop their contacts with their Turkish contacts.”
Paragraph 25 relates to the Muslim minority of Thrace and the Muslims of the Dodecanese and states: “We reassure our support to the Turkish Muslim minority of Western Thrace and the Turkish Muslim population of the Dodecanese in Greece, for their full -fledged Greek and the Turkish Muslim population. Rights should be fully respected. “
But Turkey’s attempt to adopt OIC resolutions on Cyprus and the “regime of the Turkish Muslim minority in Western Thrace and the Muslim population in the Dodecanese” faced the official reservations of its delegations. Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon and Bahrain. These countries expressed reservation for resolution no. 3/51 for the “Turkish Muslim minority in Western Thrace and the Muslim population of the Dodecanese”which promotes a completely misleading and critical Greek image in the Muslim minority, and calls on Greece: to ensure the full respect of all human rights, including religious freedom for all Muslims in the country, to take appropriate measures to protect its rights, Bilateral Agreements, to recognize the elected muftis of Xanthi and Komotini as the official muftis. It challenges the appointment of 240 Imams/Hierarchs and urges Greece: to implement the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the NGOs of the Turkish Muslim minority, to deal with the educational issues of the minority, while calling on the Minority and calls for the Minority and calling on the OICs. submits a report to the 52nd Council of Foreign Ministry.
The resolution concerning Cyprus He called, among other things, the international community and members of the organization: to take measures to end it. ‘Isolation of Muslim Turkish Cypriots’to enhance the effective solidarity with the Muslim Turkish Cypriots, working closely with them, in order to help them material and politically overcome the inhumane isolation imposed on them, to exchange business missions with the pseudo -state, to develop cultural and cultural relations, Muslim Turkish Cypriots have a voice in all international forums where the Cyprus issue is discussed, based on the equality of the two sides in Cyprus. It also calls for the free distribution of Turkish Cypriots in OIC states.
This development at OIC, and even at the meeting in Constantinople, did not come by accident, as Athens and Nicosia have in recent years worked systematically to make friendly Arab and Muslim countries realize Turkey’s attempt to tool OIC to promoting it and promoting it to promote its Greek With Greece and Cyprus, and of course with the EU itself.