Two people have been arrested as suspects in an attack that left the mayor of Greece's second-largest city hospitalized, Thessaloniki police said Sunday. About a dozen people set upon Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris at a Saturday ceremony honoring Greek victims of purges carried out by Turks during World War I. Boutaris, a winemaker who was elected Thessaloniki's mayor in 2010 on a center-left ticket that ended the city's 24 years of conservative rule, is reviled by extreme nationalists. The mayor's supporters are organizing a rally for Wednesday night at the site of the attack, next to the city's iconic White Tower, a 16th-century remnant of Turkish fortifications. "All of us who believe in democracy and debate, let us gather in the White Tower," they said in a statement.

Source: ABC News May 20, 2018 16:43 UTC