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ABTTF President paid a working visit to Brussels
18.02.2025
Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) President Halit Habip Oğlu paid a working visit to Brussels, the capital of the European Union (EU) on 18 February 2025.
ABTTF realised a written contribution to the European Commission’s Rule of Law Report 2025
06.02.2025
The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) submitted its written contribution to the European Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law Report. ABTTF, which participated in the online consultation process open to civil society organisations and other stakeholders in EU Member States initiated by the European Commission for the 2025 Rule of Law Report, conveyed the issues of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and the rights violations it is subjected to in order to contribute to the chapter on Greece in the report to be prepared.
ABTTF paid a working visit to Strasbourg
29.01.2025
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu, during his meetings, brought to the agenda the non-execution of the ECtHR judgments on the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases by Greece for the past 17 years and the building issue and the confusion of competencies with respect to the the Xanthi Turkish Minority Secondary and High School.
ABTTF President paid a working visit to Brussels
10.12.2024
President of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) Halit Habip Oğlu paid a working visit to Brussels, the capital of the European Union (EU) on Tuesday, 10 December 2024.
ABTTF was in Geneva for the UN Forum on Minority Issues
29.11.2024
Representatives of the Turkish community in Western Thrace raised the issues in the field of education, which has a great impact on the future of the Turkish community in Western Thrace, in the session on the representation of minorities in education.
Western Thrace Turks attended the 10th Annual Meeting of FUEN TAG
04.11.2024
The Western Thrace Turkish delegation consisting of ABTTTF, WTMUGA and FEP Party and their representatives conveyed the current developments related to the Turkish community in Western Thrace during the meeting.
FUEN organised a conference on the Women of Minorities in Athens
04.11.2024
As an example of the state’s systematic discrimination against the Turkish community in Western Thrace, ABTTF indicated that the freedom of association of women’s associations was violated because of the word ‘‘Turkish’’ in their name and accounted the effects of the backwardness of Western Thrace on Turkish women in the region.
ABTTF participated in the consideration of Greece of the UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
22.10.2024
ABTTF, which contributed to the review process, brought to the agenda the violation of the freedom of association of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and the non-execution of ECtHR judgments in the Bekir-Ousta group of cases for the past 16 years.
Representatives of the Turkish community in Western Thrace attended the OSCE Human Dimension Conference
08.10.2024
ABTTF brought to the agenda the violation of the freedom of association of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and the investigations against its elected muftis and the targeting of its leading representatives.
ABTTF participated in an event on teaching regional and minority languages in pre-scholar age
07.10.2024
The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) participated in an event organised by the Brussels Representation of the Autonomous Region of South Tyrol in cooperation with the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) on 3 October 2024 in Brussels. Deniz Servantie from ABTTF Brussels Office attended the event entitled ‘‘Regional and Minority Languages Teaching in Pre-Scholar Age’’.
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