Police detained 12 people in northern Greece who, having avoided meeting with the guards, entered the territory of the Ataturk Museum in Thessaloniki, where Kemal Mustafa was born, and staged a protest rally against the Turkish invasion of Syria, the Associated Press reported.

Demonstrators entered the museum and unfurled a poster, after which they were detained by museum guards and police.

The consulate of Turkey is located on part of the museum.

According to the agency, a group of Greek anarchists claimed responsibility for the protest.