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9 more Turkish primary schools will be closed in the new academic year in Western Thrace!
20.07.2023
ABTTF President: “Like the previous ones, this latest decision of the Ministry of Education to close our schools is completely against the Treaty of Lausanne! We call on our country to immediately put an end to the closure of our primary schools, which is a clear violation of our educational autonomy, and to establish a direct dialogue with u...
Prime Minister Mitsotakis continues his habit of distorting the facts by denying again the identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
11.07.2023
ABTTF President: “We no longer want to hear empty words from our Prime Minister that distorts the facts, and we want our usurped rights to be restored immediately and the principle of equality before the law to be implemented in practice.” Our country Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis also referred to the Turkish comm...
A written question to the European Commission about the issues faced by the Turkish community in Western Thrace in the field of education
06.07.2023
Members of the European Parliament (MEP) Loránt Vincze (Romania, EPP), François Alfonsi (France, Greens/EFA), Herbert Dorfmann (Italy, EPP) and Yana Toom (Estonia, Renew) submitted a written question titled ‘‘Access to quality pre-school education for children belonging to an autochthonous community in Western Thrace (Gree...
Sotiris Valden, one of the important names of SYRIZA demanded the recognition of the ‘‘Turkish’’ minority in Western Thrace
30.06.2023
ABTTF President: “The rightminded politicians of our country, such as Valden, see that the truth can no longer be plastered with mud, and they openly declare that the denial of our presence in Western Thrace and our Turkish identity cannot be sustained by our country any longer, and that this policy of denial harms our country’s interes...
The Turkish community in Western Thrace will be represented by four deputies in the Greek Parliament in the new legislative period
29.06.2023
ABTTF President: “We demand that the ND government, which has taken office, learn from the mistakes it has made in the last four years and deal with the issues of our community sincerely, and consult with us by establishing a one-to-one dialogue from the very beginning on the reforms it will carry out on matters directly related to us’&...
ABTTF paid a working visit to Strasbourg
22.06.2023
The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) paid a working visit to Strasbourg on 19-21 June 2023 in parallel with the Summer Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The ABTTF delegation, consisting of ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu and ABTTF International Relations Director Melek Kırmacı Arık, discusse...
Bakoyannis continues her unfounded claims regarding the Turkish community in Western Thrace
21.06.2023
ABTTF President: “Bakoyannis continues to use us as the tool of her party’s election campaign by targeting our community again and making baseless accusations. The statements of Bakoyannis and other high-level politicians of our country that marginalise our community and disregard its free will also seriously damage the international re...
Our country continues to distort the facts about the Turkish community in Western Thrace
14.06.2023
ABTTF President: “A systematic discriminatory policy is being implemented against us in our country. Is this the development of the ‘‘Muslim minority in Thrace’’? Whatever the language it is said in, the facts are clear!” At the conference organised by National and Kapodistrian University and the Hellenic Foun...
A documentary by Herinckx, a Journalism Department student which visited our region, about the Turkish community in Western Thrace, is on the air
13.06.2023
Fiep Herinckx, who studies at the Department of Journalism at Utrecht University, prepared a short documentary film about the Turkish community in Western Thrace. Visiting our region in May 2023 for the preparation of the documentary titled ‘‘Between Ankara and Athens’’, Herinckx met with the representatives of our community...
Dora Bakoyannis insulted the free will of the voters before the 25 June elections!
12.06.2023
ABTTF President: “Dora Bakoyannis, who has a strong name in the political arena in Europe, gave a speech, so to speak, showing a stick out of gold! We could not ascribe this statement to her at all, because the language of veiled threat is an open insult to the free will of the voters!’’ Dora Bakoyannis, one of the leading figu...
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