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ABTTF paid a working visit to Brussels
07.02.2023
President of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) Halit Habipoğlu paid a working visit to Brussels, the headquarters of the European Union (EU), on 7 February 2023. Accompanied by Deniz Servantie from the ABTTF Brussels Office, ABTTF President held meetings with Member of the European Parliament from the Hungarian minority in Ro...
Statement by SYRIZA Deputy Katrougalos on the right of members of the Turkish community in Western Thrace to define themselves
01.02.2023
ABTTF President: “I call on Katrougalos, as the SYRIZA Party, to make an effort to put the signboards of our three closed associations back in place if they win the elections and come to power, and put their rhetoric into action.” Head of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the main opposition party in our country Greece, Coalition ...
Habip Oğlu met with the PACE President
25.01.2023
During the working visit held in parallel to the PACE Winter Session, ABTTF met with the PACE President Tiny Kox. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) paid a working visit to Strasbourg in parallel to the Ordinary Winter Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). During the working visit ...
Bakoyannis: “A concrete and long-term plan is being implemented that will change the production model of the region for the better”
23.01.2023
ABTTF President: “We demand that Turkish manufacturers and enterprises in our region be taken into account and not excluded, without discrimination, in the implementation of the long-term plan for the economic development of Western Thrace. Only then can a total economic development be achieved in our region.” In a statement, Chairma...
The Turkish community was ignored again during the visit of Prime Minister Mitsotakis to Western Thrace!
16.01.2023
ABTTF President: “We are calling out to Mitsotakis, the prime minister of our country: Real equality will be achieved by the state with the restoration of our educational and religious autonomy as one of the two peoples living in the region! Just as we made use of our citizenship rights on 29 January 1988, as a result of our patience in the f...
Objection to the recognition of the Centre for the Macedonian Language by the Florina Prosecutor!
10.01.2023
ABTTF President: “We always say that in our country, which prides itself on being the cradle of democracy, democracy is practically in the hands of a mindset that is highly distorted, ruled by prejudices and stereotypes!” Politicians and members of the judiciary continue to object to the recognition of the ‘‘Centre ...
Another distorted interpretation of the Treaty of Lausanne from former Greek President Pavlopoulos
21.12.2022
ABTTF President: ‘‘Our country, as it claims, does not fulfil the educational and religious autonomy of the Muslim minority, which it defines as a religious minority, arising from Lausanne. Indeed, because of the laws enacted by the state over time, our educational and religious autonomy has been taken from us to a large extent, and we ...
National and Religious Issues Foundation: ‘‘The majority of the Minority in Thrace were Pomaks who were converted to Islam by force during the Ottoman period!’’
20.12.2022
ABTTF President: “Now, the claim that the majority of the ‘Minority in Thrace’ is composed of Pomaks who were converted to Islam by force in the early Ottoman period’ has come to the forefront! So why do we always say that we are Turkish, why? It seems that our country is in such a stalemate that it is now trying to go back ...
Our ‘‘Turkish’’ identity is denied in our country
15.12.2022
ABTTF President: “No matter how much our country denies it, we are ‘Turks’ and we have been living with our ‘Turkish’ identity in Western Thrace for centuries. Just like Albanian citizens of Greek origin living in Albania, we are Greek citizens of Turkish origin.” Ambassador of our country Greece in Tirana Kon...
Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of our country that distorts the facts about the Turkish community in Western Thrace
13.12.2022
ABTTF President: “Our country does not allow our associations bearing the word ‘‘Turkish’’, closes our autonomous primary schools, does not recognise our elected muftis. Is this what it means to be a European country with a modern democracy? Is this to pursue a modern European minority policy?” In its statem...
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