An elected Muslim official in Greece's Western Thrace has been sentenced to 15 months in prison by a Greek court on Thursday, in what many say is an attempt to suppress the country's ethnic Turkish minority. Ahmet Mete, Xanthi's Muslim cleric or 'mufti', was charged with "disrupting public order by sowing public discord" by a criminal court in Thessaloniki. He received a three-year deferment of the sentence, which may see him imprisoned if he is charge with another crime during the three-year period. Mete will appeal the ruling, a statement released by the Xanthi mufti's office said. Turkey slammed the sentence as "another manifestation of the legal pressure and inti
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