Adolescent Weddings

In Thrace Greece, where at dawn 120.000 Muslims, members of the so-called Muslim minority group, kneel to Allah, the prevailing law is the sharia. The mufti- the Muslim religious leader- is also the superior judge, blessing, among others, the perpetration of adolescent weddings, for which- under the Greek Civil Code- a court order is also required. Yet tradition keeps Muslims marrying as young as 12, a social custom in direct conflict with the European Human Rights Treaty as well as the International Human Rights Agreement.