merely a religious minority is still denied by the Greek government and a large part of the Greek media. Intolerant discourse and scapegoating of the Turkish community in Western Thrace have been observed in Greece during the first days of the pandemic. When Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis declared a nationwide curfew to prevent the coronavirus on 23 March 2020 due to the heightened risk of coronavirus, on the same day, the village of Echinos (Şahin) in Xanthi was the first village quarantined in the country after a 72-year-old man from the Turkish community in Western Thrace died. Names of some members of the Turkish community in Western Thrace who are working for media, academia and government institutions in Turkey were exposed in a Greek website in which they have been allegedly obliged to provide information to Turkish Intelligence Service as civil servants with Greek citizenship. Exposition of their full names and positions in Turkey have made them target of far-right groups in Greece.2 Stressing the importance of the Recommendations 2, 5 and 7, we must not forget that manifestations of racism and intolerance in the form of discrimination or hate crime against persons belonging to national minorities and other marginalized groups threaten the security of individuals, communities and societies and may give rise to wider scale conflict. Governments should effectively strengthen their mechanisms for identifying hate speech on social media platforms, which may lead to the manifestation of hate crime, as well as the imposition of relevant sanctions. Thank you for your attention. 2 https://tourkikanea.gr/thraki/mit-183/ 2