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President Erdoğan of our motherland Türkiye visited Athens
08.12.2023
ABTTF President: “As Prime Minister Mitsotakis said, we are citizens of this country, and as we have always expressed as the Turkish community in Western Thrace, we have no issue that cannot be solved as long as there is dialogue and good will. As long as the government has the will to do so and approaches our issues sincerely.” Pres...
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe examined the Bekir-Ousta group of cases
08.12.2023
ABTTF President: “After 15 years, Greece is talking about its intention to establish a Committee of Experts to investigate the execution of the judgments in this group of cases and prepare recommendations for the Greek authorities. Don’t get me wrong, no decision has been taken on this issue yet, there is only some intention! Our countr...
Statement that distorts the facts from the Secretary General of Religious Affairs Kalantzis!
06.12.2023
ABTTF President: “It is natural that our country has demands and expectations from our motherland regarding the Greek Orthodox minority. On the other hand, we expect our country to approach the issues of our community in a sincere manner, which is its responsibility, and to respect their rights. Only then our country will be credible in terms...
ABTTF attended the UN Forum on Minority Issues
01.12.2023
At the forum, the representatives of the Turkish community in Western Thrace raised the discriminatory practices against the Turkish community in Western Thrace and issues pertaining to education in access to quality education. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) attended the 16th Session of the United Nations (UN) Forum on ...
Minister of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports Pierrakakis was informed about the situation of the Greek Orthodox minority schools in Istanbul
01.12.2023
ABTTF President: “It is quite normal for our country to protect the Greek Orthodox minorities living abroad as a motherland. However, we expect Minister Pierrakakis to show the same sensitivity towards the issues faced by the Turkish community in Western Thrace whom are Greek citizens and who share the same fate with the Greek Orthodox minori...
A written question was submitted to the European Commission at the initiative of ABTTF regarding the imposition of double-shift schooling at the Xanthi Turkish Minority Secondary and High School and the demand for a new school building
30.11.2023
Members of the European Parliament (MEP) François Alfonsi (France, Greens/EFA), Loránt Vincze (Romania, EPP), Herbert Dorfmann (Italy, EPP) and Yana Toom (Estonia, Renew) submitted a written question titled ‘‘Double-shift schooling in Western Thrace’’ to the European Commission. In the written question...
Habip Oğlu: Our country, Greece, is the only EU country that does not recognise national minorities
29.11.2023
ABTTF President: “Our country, which closely and carefully monitors the protection and development of the human and minority rights of the Greek minority in Albania, sees no harm in violating the rights of our community, which is under its responsibility, for years, and disregards the values of the EU of which it is a member. Our country is t...
ABTTF expressed the educational issues of the Turkish community in Western Thrace at the EP Intergroup on Minorities
23.11.2023
The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) made a presentation titled ‘‘Problems in equal access to quality education for children belonging to the Turkish community in Western Thrace, Greece’’ at a meeting of the Intergroup on Traditional Minorities, National Communities and Languages at the European Parliamen...
The Council of Europe continues to closely monitor Greece for not executing the ECtHR judgments against it and regarding the associations of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
21.11.2023
ABTTF President: “If our country does not take a concrete step on the issue until the meeting in December, we ask the Committee of Ministers to consider initiating the infringement procedure against our country for not fulfilling its obligations arising from the treaty’’. Director of Human Rights of the Council of Europe Christ...
Double standards regarding the protection of human rights from our country Greece!
15.11.2023
ABTTF President: “We expect our country, which describes the imprisonment of the elected mayor of the Greek minority as a regression in human rights, to look in the mirror and show the same sensitivity for the Turkish community in Western Thrace as they are Greek citizens whose rights and freedoms have been systematically usurped for decades....
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