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Boutaris has called the Turks “brothers”, The ultra-nationalists in order to target him, they also falsely claimed that
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killed Greeks or not"). Boutaris has repeatedly angered hardliners in Greece because he tried to facilitate relations between Greece and its neighbors and because he opposed nationalist views on the
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In 2012 he was chosen as 'the best mayor of the world' for the month of
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Boutaris also declared his wish to build an Islamic mosque, monuments to
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