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The 2025 Rule of Law Report of the EU was published
09.07.2025
In its report on Greece, the European Commission again referred to the Bekir-Ousta group of cases concerning the violation of the freedom of association and recommended simplifying the registration of civil society organisations. The European Commission published its 2025 Rule of Law Report on 8 July. The Rule of Law Report, which examines devel...
According to the EU Justice Scoreboard, Greece ranks last in terms of length of judicial proceedings!
03.07.2025
ABTTF President: “As the Turkish community in Western Thrace, we are first-hand witnesses to how badly justice is administered in our country. Following the dissolution of the Xanthi Turkish Union, the domestic legal process took 22 years. The European Court of Human Rights judgments in the group of case known as Bekir-Ousta and Others have n...
The European Commission answered to the question for written answer on the stigmatisation of civil society groups in Greece
27.06.2025
The European Commission (EC) answered to a question for written answer titled ‘‘Stigmatisation of civil society groups in Greece’’ submitted by Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Ilhan Kyuchyuk (Bulgaria, Renew Europe) on 15 March 2025. The response, sent on 26 June 2025 by Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Ru...
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution on the European Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law Report
20.06.2025
The European Parliament (EP), in a motion for a resolution adopted on 18 June 2025, emphasised the need for independent and effective judicial systems with highly qualified personnel, condemning interference in corruption investigations and the misuse of judicial systems for political ends in the Member States. The resolution, which was adopted ...
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has requested Greece to execute the ECtHR judgments concerning the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases
13.06.2025
ABTTF President: “Our country should execute the ECtHR judgments concerning our associations without further delay. If this does not happen, it will once again be confirmed that our country has no intention of executing the three relevant judgments and that it is politicising the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases’’. At its ...
The annual report of the Civil Liberties Union for Europe highlights the deterioration of the rule of law in Greece
19.03.2025
ABTTF President: “Our country, which has not executed the ECtHR judgments in favour of our three associations for 17 years, disregards the rule of law and international law.” The civil society network known as the Civil Liberties Union for Europe analysed the current state of the rule of law in the European Union (EU) in its sixth an...
Greece blacklisted for human rights and rule of law in EP report
06.03.2025
ABTTF President: “We have been facing, knowing and seeing this indifferent attitude of the rulers of our country in the issues of our community for years. Our country, which has not executed the three judgments of the European Court of Human Rights with respect to the associations of our community for the past 17 years despite all the warning...
ECRI assesses the status of implementation of its recommendations for Greece
25.02.2025
On 19 February 2025, the Europe Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) of the Council of Europe released its concluding observations on whether and how Greece has implemented the priority recommendations of its 6th country report on Greece, published in September 2022. In its conclusions, which are based on the Greek government’s...
Happy International Mother Language Day!
21.02.2025
ABTTF President: “We call on our country to immediately end its discriminatory policy against our community, which is incompatible with fundamental human rights, and on the 25th anniversary of International Mother Language Day, we reiterate our demand for bilingual Turkish kindergartens’’. The United Nations (UN) Educational, S...
The EP Minorities Intergroup was re-established
16.01.2025
ABTTF President: “As ABTTF, we sincerely congratulate Loránt Vincze on his election as Chair of the Minorities Intergroup and we strongly believe that his strong support for our community and ABTTF will continue in the future. In the new legislative period of the EP, we will continue to raise the issues of our community at the meetings...
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