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Foreign Minister Gerapetritis: “Muslim minorities in (Western) Thrace have a special participation and full rights”
08.03.2024
ABTTF President: “Our country, which usurped our educational and religious autonomy guaranteed by the treaties with various laws and practices, is closing our autonomous primary schools in Western Thrace and ignoring our demand for bilingual Turkish kindergartens. We request our country to immediately abandon the perception discourse that is ...
The preliminary meeting of the EU project titled ‘‘B-SHAPES’’ was held in Komotini
06.03.2024
The preliminary meeting of the European Union (EU) project titled ‘‘B-SHAPES - Borders Shaping Perceptions of European Societies’’, in which the Turkish community in Western Thrace is also included, was held on 5 March 2024 in Komotini, with the initiative of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF). At th...
ABTTF organised a fact-finding mission to Western Thrace with the participation of foreign experts from Europe
05.03.2024
The experts participating in the fact-finding mission observed on-site the issues of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and the rights violations they are subjected to. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) organised a fact-finding mission to the Western Thrace region of Greece with a delegation of academics and experts f...
EP Rapporteur drew attention to the issues regarding the rule of law in Greece
01.03.2024
ABTTF President: “Our country, which has not executed the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights regarding our three associations for the past 16 years, continues to disregard the principle of the rule of law, despite clearly damaging its reputation in the international arena. If our country, which has been a member of the EU since 1...
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women published its concluding observations on Greece
28.02.2024
The United Nations (UN) Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) published its concluding observations on Greece which it considered at its 87th session held in Geneva, Switzerland, between 29 January and 16 February 2024. In its concluding observations, which include recommendations for Greece, which is a party to th...
Happy International Mother Language Day!
21.02.2024
ABTTF President: “In our country Greece, our demand for kindergarten has been ignored for years, and children of our community are prevented from learning their native language Turkish, in pre-school education’’. The General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) declared ...
Stylianidis continued his discourse distorting the facts about the Turkish community in Western Thrace
20.02.2024
ABTTF President: “Stylianidis once again distorted the facts about our community, ignored the systematic violation of our community’s rights, educational and religious autonomy for years, and tried to present it as if there it is something that does not exist’’. New Democracy (ND) Party Rodopi MP Evripidis Stylianidis hos...
Parallel report from ABTTF to the report of the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs
15.02.2024
ABTTF President: “With this parallel report that we submitted to the competent authorities of our country, we demand from the government to implement a real minority policy based on sincerity, acting with the understanding of ‘for our community, with our community, not ‘for our community, despite our community’, on issues an...
Resolution from the European Parliament on serious developments that threaten the rule of law in Greece
08.02.2024
ABTTF President: “A harsh warning has now come from the EP to our country, which has disregarded the rule of law by failing to execute three judgments of the European Court of Human Rights regarding the associations of our community for almost 16 years, despite all the warnings of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. What suit...
Response from the European Commission to the question for written answer regarding the imposition of double-shift schooling in the Xanthi Turkish Minority Secondary and High School
08.02.2024
The European Commission responded to the question for written answer titled “Double-shift schooling in Western Thrace” submitted by Members of the European Parliament (MEP) François Alfonsi (France, Greens /EFA), Loránt Vincze (Romania, EPP), Herbert Dorfmann (Italy, EPP) and Yana Toom (Estonia, Renew) on 14 November 2023....
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