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The Greek National Commission for Human Rights published its 2025 Annual Report

08.07.2026

ABTTF President: “While the report fails to address minority rights, the systematic rights violations and discrimination faced by the Turkish community in Western Thrace have unfortunately also been overlooked. In the written opinion regarding the report that we, as ABTTF, will prepare and present to GNCHR, we will detail the de facto erosion...
Patriarch Bartholomew: The situation of minorities in both countries should not be viewed through the prism of Turkish-Greek relations

17.06.2026

ABTTF President: “It is hoped that Patriarch Bartholomew, during his next visit to our country, will use the same constructive language he used in his interview with the government regarding our minority. As Bartholomew himself indicated, our motherland has taken many positive steps in recent years to improve the situation of the Greek Orthod...
ABTTF President Habip Oğlu: Our country must first address its poor record on human and minority rights

11.06.2026

ABTTF President: “Although our country has been an EU member since 1981, while it demands respect for the rights and national identity of the Greek minority in Albania, it denies the ethnic Turkish identity of the Turkish Minority in Western Thrace—whose members hold both Greek and EU citizenship—and bans our associations bearing ...
The Greek government is concerned about the European Commission's rule of law report for this year

10.06.2026

ABTTF President: “The Tempi train crash, illegal wiretapping, and the OPEKEPE incident have been the most glaring examples of the systematic and institutional violation of the rule of law in our country, Greece, in recent years. These legal scandals, for which the government bears primary responsibility, have naturally dealt a severe blow to ...
ABTTF President Habip Oğlu: Greece denies the existence of the Turkish Minority in Western Thrace and the Macedonian minority

01.06.2026

ABTTF President: “Our country, which has been a member of the EU since 1981, completely denies the ethnic identity and existence of the Turkish Minority in Western Thrace and the Macedonian minority living within its borders. For 28 years, our country has persistently failed to execute the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) judgmen...
Note verbale from Greece to the written statement submitted by ABTTF to the UN Human Rights Council

29.05.2026

The Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations (UN) Office in Geneva has responded to the written statement submitted by the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) to the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council regarding the current problems faced by the Turkish Minority in Western Thrace in the field of education. In it...
ABTTF President Habip Oğlu: As the Turkish Minority in Western Thrace, we too wish to serve as a bridge of friendship between our country, Greece, and our motherland, Türkiye

26.05.2026

ABTTF President: “As the Turkish Minority in Western Thrace, we too wish to serve as a bridge of friendship between our country, Greece, and our motherland, Türkiye. However, this is unfortunately not possible because, as a result of the official state policy in our country—which is based on the denial of our Turkish identity&mdash...
72% of people in Greece say there is no rule of law in the country

12.05.2026

ABTTF President: “The systematic violation of the rule of law in our country is also explicitly criticised in reports by the European Commission, the European Parliament and independent international organisations. However, rather than taking these constructive criticisms and citizens’ concerns into account, the government prefers to co...
Prime Minister Mitsotakis claimed that the constitutional amendments would resolve the issues regarding the rule of law in Greece

11.05.2026

ABTTF President: “In June 2021, the Court of Cassation rejected the appeals lodged by the Xanthi Turkish Union, and in August 2022, those lodged by the Cultural Association of Turkish Women of the Prefecture of Rodopi and the Evros Prefecture Minority Youth Association, both of which were based on judgments of the European Court of Human Righ...
CINGOs, affiliated with the Council of Europe, has published its report on Greece

05.05.2026

ABTTF President: “The findings of the delegation in the CINGOs report on Greece are highly significant, because, as we have always said, this group of cases has been politicised, and it is clear that Greece does not wish to execute the ECtHR judgments relating to this group of cases”. The Conference of International Non-Governmental ...

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