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Western Thrace Fenerbahçe Association, which organised a charity campaign, was targeted

15.02.2023

ABTTF President: “While our country, with all its citizens, institutions, and professional chambers is standing with our motherland in these difficult days and sharing its pain and that the Minister of Foreign Affairs of our country personally visited the earthquake zone and declared that our country will continue to do its best to overcome the difficult times both at the bilateral and European Union level, such a news report cannot be explained. I don’t know what to say, I give up!’’

In the news report dated 13.02.2023 and written by Kostas Karaiskos on the news site Tourkikanea.gr, the Western Thrace Fenerbahçe Association was targeted.

In the news report titled ‘‘can a supporters association raise funds for a foreign country?’’, referring to the aid campaign launched by the Western Thrace Fenerbahce Association after the severe earthquakes in our motherland Turkey, it is asked whether a football fans’ association can collect humanitarian aid and even monetary aid for a foreign country, whether such a situation is legal and whether it is included in the association’s statutes. 

The news report also indicates that it is necessary to investigate why the Fenerbahçe Association, which was established in Komotini recently and whose name has the phrase ‘‘Western Thrace’’ in its title, took such an action.

“I have a hard time to understand what kind of mentality this is when our country is among the first countries that helped our motherland which experienced two major earthquakes While our country, with all its citizens, institutions, and professional chambers is standing with our motherland in these difficult days and sharing its pain and that the Minister of Foreign Affairs of our country personally visited the earthquake zone and declared that our country will continue to do its best to overcome the difficult times both at the bilateral and European Union level, such a news report cannot be explained. I don’t know what to say, I give up! I condemn this mentality that continues to be discriminatory and marginalising even in such a period!’’ said Halit Habip Oğlu, President of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF).

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