Honi Aksoy, a Turkish foreign ministry spokesman called Greece "the spoiled child of Europe, that must remember what happened to those who disrespected the Turkish flag in the Aegean." Aksoy wrote that "Greece showed once more its enmity against Islam and Turkey with the excuse of reacting to Agia Sophia being open to prayers".
The Turkish official also condemned the acts of a group of "right-wing extremists who burned a Turkish flag in Thessaloniki, on Friday. The nationalists had gathered outside the church of Agia Sophia in Thessaloniki and then marched towards the Turkish Consulate while holding signs that read: "For homeland, Nation and Orthodoxy".
The protesters were stopped by the police outside the consulate and sang the Greek national anthem and shouted slogans.
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"Greece must wake up from the dream of the Byzantium" this statement came a day after prays were held at the Agia Sophia site in Constantinople that was turned into a mosque after the decision of the Turkish dictator Erdogan who prayed there with his entourage.
The conversion of the UNESCO Heritage Site into a mosque has been condemned by most of the western world and Greece in particular. Greece's foreign ministry replied to its Turkish counterpart, speaking of Turkey's "religious and national fanaticism."
"The 21st-century international community is surprised to watch the delusions of religion and nationalistic fanaticism in present-day Turkey. They (the delusions) have been condemned and are unworthy of answers, while they expose internationally those who express them.
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