Thrace has been done without taking into account the distance between villages with Minority population and infrastructural deficiency. The compulsory education in Greece (including the pre-school education) is 10 years which is not applied for the minority education; the Greek officials responsible for matters of minority education keep ignoring those Minority students who stop their education after finishing primary schools. The existence of six-year compulsory education for minority students as opposed to 10-year compulsory education for the majority ones is not only perceived and interpreted by the Minority as a double standard infringing the principle of equality of citizens, but also as another Greek application contributing to isolation of the Muslim Turkish Minority by keeping its educational level below the average across Greece. As for the secondary education, the number of minority secondary and high schools where education is held in both Turkish and Greek remains inadequate. There are only two minority secondary and high schools in the region, one in Komotini and the other one in Xanthi. Also, there are two quranic-religious schools/madrasah. Although almost half of the population in Western Thrace is Turkish, there are only four bilingual secondary and high schools (two of them are madrasah) while the number of monolingual Greek public schools count more than 100 in all three prefectures of Western Thrace. Similar to those in minority education, fundamental problems in the realm of religious freedom and development of religious characteristics of the Turkish minority in Western Thrace still persist. One of them is the right to elect the religious heads/muftis which is guaranteed with 1881 Istanbul Treaty, 1913 Athens Treaty, the Treaty of Sevres - (Greek Sevres) and 1923 Peace Treaty of Lausanne and referred also in Article 4.2 of the Declaration. However, since the beginning of 1990s Greece has been rejecting the right of the Minority members to elect their muftis. It rather insists on appointing them in spite of 5 instances, i.e..Serifv. Greece (14 December 1999-Case No: 38175/97), Agga v. Greece (No. 1- 2) (17 October 2002-Case No: 50776/99 & 52912/99), Agga v. Greece (No.3) (13 July 2006 — .Case No: 32186/02) and Agga v. Greece (No.4) (13 July 2006 — Case No: 33331/02) concluded against Greece for violating Article 9 of the ECHR. There are more than 250 mosques operating in Western Thrace, where Muslims can freely perform their prayers. Almost all imams functioning at these mosques are selected and paid by the members of the Muslim Community. Along with matters about election of muftis, the Law 3536/2007 is highly controversial and has been opposed by the Minority on the grounds that it is contrary to the article 43 of the Peace Treaty of Lausanne that protects the religious freedom of the Muslim Turkish Minority. According to the provisions of this law, 240 imams or seminary teachers would be appointed by a five-member committee composed of Christian officials only that is incompatible with the Islamic Faith. Similar to those enshrined in Article 6 of the Declaration, provisions of international treaties and documents ‘that Greece signed and ratified contradict with this Law which does not promote mutual understanding and cooperation between the