Let's Build the Muslim Cemetery Together in Nea Propontida

Call from The Mayor of Büyükçekmece, Dr. Hasan Akgün to Mr. Emmanouil Karras the Mayor of Sister City of Greece Nea Propontida: “ "Let's build the Muslim cemetery together in the city of Nea Propontida ..."

Mayor of Büyükçekmece sent a letter to his counterpart Emmanouil Karras on the same day when a Muslim cemetery from the Ottoman period was unearthed during the construction of a school yard in the city of Nea Propontida, the sister city in Greece. Dr. Hasan Akgün said, “As Büyükçekmece Municipality we have offered them that we want to carry out a joint effort to establish a Muslim cemetery in a sister city relationship and to declare that region as a Muslim cemetery”.

“I sent letters both in Greek and English”

The Mayor of Büyükçekmece, Dr. Hasan Akgün said, “We conveyed our sensitivity on this issue with the letter we wrote to the Mayor of Nea Propontida, Emmanouil Karras, with whom we have been in a sister city relationship since 2014, and stated that the corpses kept under protection should be buried in an appropriate place in accordance with our religious beliefs and with a ceremony. We, as Büyükçekmece Municipality and Nea Propontida Municipality, offered them that we would like to carry out a joint work on the establishment of a Muslim cemetery, which will be regarded as a local service within the sister city relationship, and to declare that region as a Muslim cemetery ”.