Gulbeyaz Karahasan has been appointed by Pasok (Greek Socialist and main opposition Party) to stand as candidate for the prefecture of Drama-Kavala-Xanthi. Then the controversy begins. She is Muslim.

I was going to do a post on this tomorrow but our very own SeaWitch beat me to it with all the details. Go on over and read it here.

UPDATE: According to Kathimerini, the general public has been surprised over the furore because they were either not aware of (or did not consider important) the bar of discrimination that until 1997 was in place to divide Greeks from Greeks, the “pure” from the “suspect.”