Minority and the Greek State, thus infringing religious autonomy and threatening the freedom of faith. Similar to mosques, Muslim charitable foundations/waqf constitute an essential part of Minority’ s cultural, historical and religious heritage. Until the advent of the 1967 Junta regime, the Minority had defined members of Administrative Boards of the Muslim Foundations. Since then, the Greek governments have been appointing Minority members to these boards as a result of which the minority lost its control over administrations of these foundations. Religious and ethnic institutions that are mentioned above usually suffer from being victims violent Islamophobic and hate- motivated attacks. Some examples of recent atincks are as follows: | 1. Poshbosh (Posbos) Muslim Cemetery (16 February 2012): On Thursday evening, 16 February 2012, unknown people attacked to the Pospos neighborhood Muslim cemetery. Around 10 gravestones were damaged. This is the third ene in two years to the same cemetery. 2. Xanthi Turkish Union (23 March 2012) On Friday, March 23, 2012, Xanthi. Turkish Union was attacked by an unidentified person or persons. The perpetrators wrote “EZQ OI TOYPKOI (TURKS OUT)” on the walls of the Union. 3. Bektashi tomb in Xanthi (23 March 2012). On 23 March 2012 an unidentified person or persons wrote "TOYPKOZ KAAOZ MONO NEKPOEX (The best Turk is the dead Turk)" on the walls of a Bektashi tomb located in the downtown Xanthi. 4. Komotini Turkish Youth Union (6 August 2012). On 6 August 2012 some members (around 150 people) of the Golden Dawn — extreme right-wing organizationattacked to Komotini Turkish Youth Union. After the demonstration in the Komotini city center that was organized by local authorities about the issue of the refugees, a group of people — members of the Golden Dawn organization — marched towards the Turkish Consulate General in Komotini and chanted slogans against Turkish Minority and Turkey. The police did not allow them to enter to the street where the Turkish Consulate is located. Then, the group gathered in front of the Komotini Turkish Youth Union, they read Greek National Anthem and they threw plastic bottles to the Turkish people sitting in the garden of the Union. Members of the Turkish Minority have also been facing difficulties in having permission to pray or to.organize cultural activities at the mosques and religiously important sites nearby Thrace since 2010. The members of the Association of the Religious Officials of Western Thrace Mosques applied on several occasions to the Greek authorities in order to. have permission for performing religious ceremonies at the Zincirli Mosque in Serres, at the Fethiye Mosque in Joannina, and at the Osman Sah- Kursun Mosque in Trikala. All the applications were declined.