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Daily Sabah (23 September 2025)

Members of a nongovernmental organization marched toward the Greek Consulate in the northwestern province of Edirne and laid a black wreath there on Tuesday, on the anniversary of the massacre of Turks by Greeks in the Peloponnese in 1821.

The massacre where Jews and Albanians were also slaughtered is a dark chapter in Greece’s war for independence from Ottoman rule.

On the 204th anniversary of the incident, the Edirne branch of the Confederation of Balkan Rumelian Turks staged a march carrying a banner reading "We will never forget the Mora massacre,” using another name for the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece.

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