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ABTTF reported attacks targeting the Turkish community in Western Thrace and Islamophobic hate attacks and hate speech to the OSCE

02.05.2022

The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) forwarded to the OSCE its written contribution to the 2021 Hate Crimes Report of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which includes the Turkish community in Western Thrace and Islamophobic hate-based attacks and hate speech in Greece.

In its written contribution, ABTTF quoted Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens, leader of the Orthodox Church, as saying in a documentary broadcast on a television channel in January 2021 that ‘Islam is not a religion, but a political party and people are people of war’ and indicated that he had been engaged directly in hate speech.

Noting that an improvised explosive device containing screws and nails was thrown at a building used as a mosque in Athens, Greece, in January 2022, ABTTF noted that in the same month, an anti-Islam poster reading ‘Stop the Islamization of Evros now!’ was put up by an unidentified person or persons on a wall opposite the historic Çelebi Sultan Mehmet Mosque in the town of Didymoteicho in the province of Evros.

The OSCE 2021 Hate Crimes Report will be published on the International Day for Tolerance on 16 November, as it does every year.
 

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