The preliminary meeting of the European Union (EU) project titled ‘‘B-SHAPES - Borders Shaping Perceptions of European Societies’’, in which the Turkish community in Western Thrace is also included, was held on 5 March 2024 in Komotini, with the initiative of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF).
At the acquaintance and preliminary meeting held in English with the focus group established within the scope of the project and consisting of members of the Turkish community in Western Thrace, the themes of perceptions about being a minority in the border region and understanding the issues of the Turkish community in Western Thrace were discussed.
At the meeting, the leader of the project, Head of the Cluster ‘‘Danish-German Minorities Issues’’ of the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) and Associate Professor of the University of Southern Denmark Dr. Martin Klatt realised a presentation with respect to the project to be implemented in the Hungary-Slovakia, Austria-Italy, Germany-Denmark, Czechia-Poland and Greece-Bulgaria border regions and further touched upon the the contribution of the Turkish community in Western Thrace to the project.
Petranka Nedelcheva and Magdalena Marinova from the National Museum of History of Bulgaria (HYSTORYSMUS), one of the partners of the project, also attended the meeting.
