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Daily Sabah (24 October 2022)

An Ottoman-era building that served as a spiritual center for Muslim Turks in Greece was converted to a music school as Türkiye’s neighbor seeks to erase its historical links to the country 

Murat Reis Mosque is one of the rare Ottoman-era buildings that survived for centuries on the Greek island of Rhodes. Yet, the mosque, served as a center of faith for Muslims, joined the growing list of Ottoman heritage buildings misused by Greece. It now serves as a music school, Dr. Neval Konuk, who studies Ottoman heritage in the Balkans, said.

The conversion is the latest in Greece's efforts to destroy its Muslim Turkish heritage as the tensions with its neighbor Türkiye escalate.

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