Head of Turkish far-right party in northern Greece
AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis
Cypriot university students shout slogans outside the Turkish Consulate during the visit of Devlet Bahceli, head of Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, on Thursday, June 28, 2012. The far-right Turkish politician, visited Thessaloniki Thursday as part of a tour of northern Greece, where Greece's sizeable Muslim minority mainly lives. The t-shirt of protester reads 'Liberation-Cyprus'.
Cypriot university students shout slogans outside the Turkish Consulate during the visit of Devlet Bahceli, head of Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, on Thursday, June 28, 2012. The far-right Turkish politician, visited Thessaloniki Thursday as part of a tour of northern Greece, where Greece's sizeable Muslim minority mainly lives. The t-shirt of protester reads 'Liberation-Cyprus'.
Devlet Bahceli, head of Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party, visited Thessaloniki Thursday as part of a tour of northern Greece, where Greece's sizeable Muslim minority mainly lives. About 60 Cypriots affiliated to a student movement stood outside the Turkish Consulate in Thessaloniki to protest, and scuffled with police who dispersed them using pepper spray.
About 40 members of Greece's extremist far-right Golden Dawn party later turned up to join the protests against Bahceli, but no further incidents were reported.
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