Provocative, strange re-enactment of Ottoman ‘tradition’ outside Church in northern Greece

The Janissaries were elite Ottoman infantry units formed in the 14th century, which served as the sultan’s household army, bodyguards and standing shock troops. They began as an elite corps of slaves made up of kidnapped young Christian boys, who were forcibly converted to Islam.

The so-called performance was held on Sunday in the main town square and in front of the Orthodox cathedral, generating negative reactions by the local residents and media coverage.

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