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Human Rights Without Frontiers Int’l (HRWF) Director Willy Fautre released his report on Western Thrace Turkish Minority
04.12.2012
Director of Human Rights Without Frontiers International Int’l (HRWF) delivered a report named “Ethnic Turks in Greece, a Muslim Minority” following his mission to Western Thrace along with a European human rights delegation including Hans Hainrich Hansen, President of Federal Union of European Nationalities and François Alfonsi, Member of the Euro...
In Echinos, 20 Muslim mothers challenge the law denying their children pre-school education both in Turkish and Greek Bilingual Turkish-Greek kindergartens are a big issue for the Muslim ethnic Turkish minority
24.10.2012
HRWF (24.10.2012) - Twenty mothers of Echinos (Thrace, Xanthi Prefecture) belonging to the Muslim ethnic Turkish minority[i] are openly challenging Law 3518/2006 introducing compulsory school education from the age of five because the local Greek educational authorities have repeatedly rejected their requests for opening a Greek-Turkish kindergarte...
Muslims of Turkish origin discriminated against in North-Eastern Greece
23.10.2012
A human rights fact-finding mission accompanied by European deputy François Alfonsi highlights structural human rights problems and recommends to the Greek Government a constructive dialogue with the said community HRWF (22.10.2012) - "Muslims of Turkish heritage who number about 140,000-150,000 people[i] in Thrace (North-Eastern Greece) are dis...
Principal of the Turkish Minority Primary School in Echinos (Şahin) dismissed from duty
09.10.2012
ABTTF President Halit Habipoğlu: The Greek Government must acknowledge the right to education in mother language of the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace Because he had admitted all those children to classes, who were not enrolled in the Turkish Minority Primary School in Echinos (Şahin) village on the ground that they had not attended a public...
Western Thrace Turk Mülazım Cemali attacked by far-rightists
21.09.2012
ABTTF President Halit Habipoğlu: The violent attack against Mülazım Cemali clearly demonstrates the increasing hate-motivated attacks in Western Thrace, Greece Mülazım Cemali, a teacher belonging to the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace, was attacked by far-rightists on Tuesday evening, October 18 in Xanthi city centre as he was hanging a placa...
Some children belonging to the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace not enrolled in the primary school as they have not attended public kindergarten
17.09.2012
ABTTF President Halit Habipoğlu: The Turkish Minority of Western Thrace has the right to have education in its mother language, and the Greek Government should find as soon as possible a solution for this problem having emerged today as a matter of enrolment In Greece, where the new school year has begun, a problem is being experienced now rega...
Attack on headquarters of Friendship, Equality, Peace Party
23.08.2012
On 23 August 2012, headquarters of Party of Friendship, Equality, Peace (Turkish: Dostluk,Eşitlik, Barış Partisi)(Greek: Κόμμα Ισότητας, Ειρήνης και Φιλίας) was attacked by an unidentified person or a group. According to Birlik newspaper, the headquarters in Komotini was attacked in the evening hours after the office was closed, and the assailants ...
“Golden Dawn” supporters with Greek flags in their hands drive by the Turkish villages in Xanthi
16.08.2012
ABTTF President Halit Habipoğlu: Hate speech can turn into mutual acts of violence, the Government should take urgent action A group of members of the Xanthi provincial organization of the extreme nationalist political party Golden Dawn (Chrysi Avgi), who carried Greek flags in their hands, drove by the Turkish villages in Xanthi by motorbikes a...
Efforts of Western-Thrace Turks in Thessaloniki remain unsuccessful, mosque pledge not kept
10.08.2012
ABTTF President Halit Habipoğlu: Why is the approval of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs needed for a request that comes from the Greek citizens? The Greek Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports and the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to the request of Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris with regard ...
Greek police returns Dr. Mehmet Hasanoğlu his passport, saying “there was a mistake”
16.07.2012
ABTTF President Halit Habipoğlu: Arbitrary practice in the case of Dr. Hasanoğlu is indented to intimidate the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace Dr. Mehmet Hasanoğlu, who belongs to the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace and lives in Turkey, was released after the Greek police had made him wait for 24 hours at the border crossing point Pazarkul...
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