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ABTTF written opinion regarding the Greece section of Amnesty International’s annual report
11.05.2023
ABTTF President: “In our written opinion prepared as ABTTF, we conveyed the issues of our community and the discrimination it is exposed to and demanded that the organisation also focus on minority rights in next year’s reports. Indeed, minority rights are an integral part of human rights’’. The Federation of Western Thra...
Happy 9 May Europe Day!
09.05.2023
ABTTF President: “The EU is founded on the values of democracy, equality, freedom, rule of law and respect for the rights of persons belonging to national minorities. On 9 May Europe Day, we, as the Turkish community in Western Thrace living in Greece, an old member of the EU, demand full respect for our rights and freedoms, and we call on ou...
Our video about the voting of Western Thrace Turks is on the air!
03.05.2023
The video prepared by the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) about the election system in the general elections which will be held in Greece on 21 May 2023 is now online! Let’s be in our region on 21 May, take care of our vote and our future! The video released by ABTTF on its YouTube channel and Fac...
Prime Minister Mitsotakis once again ignored the identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
28.04.2023
ABTTF President: “While Albania, which is not yet a member of the European Union, accepts and recognises the Greek minority living on its territory with its ethnic identity, we are described as a ‘‘Muslim’’ minority and our identity is denied in our country, which is an old member of the European Union, claiming to be ...
Question for written answer to the European Commission regarding hate speech targeting the Turkish community in Western Thrace
28.04.2023
Member of the European Parliament (MEP) François Alfonsi (France, Greens/EFA) submitted a question for written answer to the European Commission as regards hate speech and systematic discrimination targeting the Turkish community in Western Thrace in Greece. In the question for written answer which was directed by MEP Alfonsi to the Europ...
Western Thrace Turkish business people and cooperative representatives and Turkish supermarket chains operating in Berlin gathered together
25.04.2023
ABTTF President: “The Turkish community in Western Thrace in our region is a community based on agriculture, but due to the structural issues in our region, especially after the financial and financial crisis, migration has increased considerably. For this reason, we think that employment should be increased by enhancing production in our reg...
A resolution which also refers to minority rights was adopted in the European Parliament
21.04.2023
ABTTF President: “With the inclusion of the Framework Agreement and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in the EU legal system, the protection of national and autochthonous minorities in Europe and the promotion of linguistic and cultural diversity will be one of the general policy areas that are legally binding for all EU...
Visit to ABTTF from the Director of the Museum of Football, Culture and Identity in Milan
19.04.2023
Francesco Zema, sports reporter from Milan, Italy, and Director of the Football, Culture and Identity Museum named ‘‘CALCI’’, visited the headquarters of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) in Witten, Germany, on 18 April 2023, after a visit he realised to Western Thrace. Zema met with ABTTF President...
Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias visited Gökçeada on Easter
18.04.2023
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: “While 60 children are studying in the kindergarten and primary school, which was opened with only 5 children in Gökçeada with the support of our motherland, the number of our schools in Western Thrace decreased from 226 to 99 in the last ten years. As two communities whose status and rights were ...
Report from ABTTF in response to the Greece Report on the U.S. Human Rights Practices Report for 2022
17.04.2023
ABTTF President: “Unfortunately, the U.S. Greece Human Rights Report gives less and less coverage to the issues of our community each year, which damages the credibility and reliability of the U.S. report. As every year, we have clearly expressed this criticism in the report we prepared as a response to the US Greece 2022 Human Rights Report....
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