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U.S. Mission to the OSCE responds to ABTTF
05.03.2013
The United States (U.S.) Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna responded to the letter of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF), which expressed the reaction of the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace against the law 3536/2007 on the appointment of 240 religious preachers i.e. Imams by...
ABTTF attended the Annual NPLD Conference 2013
25.02.2013
Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) participated in the annual NPLD (Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity) Conference organised by Swedish Cultural Foundation on 21 February 2013. The full day conference given under the premises of the Delegation to the EU of the Government of Catalonia was attended by ABTTF Brussels Representat...
ABTTF on a working visit to Brussels
20.02.2013
Federation of Western Thrace Turks (ABTTF) paid a working visit to the European Parliament, Brussels on 19 February 2013. ABTTF President Halit Habipoğlu met Mr. François Alfonsi, Member of the European Parliament and Mr. Willy Fautré, the Director of the Human Rights Without Frontiers International (HRWF). President Habipoğlu meets Corsican ME...
ABTTF attended the Expert Meeting on Minority Citizens' Initiative
23.01.2013
Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) attended the expert meeting on European Citizens’ Initiative for the minorities of Europe, organised by the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) on 22 January 2013 and hosted by Iuliu Winkler, MEP (Romania) through the participation of ABTTF President Halit Habipoğlu and ABTTF Brussels ...
ABTTF attended Fundamental Rights Conference 2012
10.12.2012
Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) has participated in the annual fundamental rights conference of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). The Fundamental Rights Conference 2012 discussed the very subject of this year’s agenda as ‘Justice in Austerity: Challenges and Opportunities for Access to Justice’ under the premises of t...
Problems of Western Thrace Turkish Minority were discussed in the European Parliament
29.11.2012
ABTTF once again undersigned an outstanding initative through the conference “Human Rights Violations against Ethnic Turks in Greece” on 28 November 2012 organised in cooperation with the Party of Friendship, Equality and Peace and the Brussels based NGO, Human Rights Without Frontiers International and hosted by François Alfonsi, Member of the Eur...
ABTTF attended the UN Forum on Minority Issues
29.11.2012
ABTTF and BTAYTD (Western Thrace Minority University Graduates Association) brought the very problems Western Thrace Turkish Minority faces to the agenda Federation of Western Thrace Turkish Minority (ABTTF) has attended the Fifth Session of the UN Forum on Minority Issues on 27-28 November 2012. The minority was represented by ABTTF Internation...
ABTTF meets with the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muižnieks
16.11.2012
The President of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF), Halit Habipoğlu, and member of the ABTTF International Affairs Department, Seyhan Sarıca, met on 16 November 2012 with the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muižnieks, and discussed the problems the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace in Greece has been fa...
EU Commission Vice-President Reding responds to ABTTF
01.11.2012
Viviane Reding: Greece has not yet notified its measures of transposition of the EU Frame-work Decision The Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, Viviane Reding replied to the letter sent by the Federation of Turks in Europe (ABTTF) on 28 August 2012, which addressed the rise ...
A delegation from Europe visits Western Thrace in Greece to investigate the problems of the Turkish minority
22.10.2012
ABTTF President Halit Habipoğlu: As an NGO having been conducting political lobbying in the international arena for many years, we broke new ground, and brought a delegation to investigate the problems of the Turkish minority to Western Thrace The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) organized from 16 to 20 October 2012 a fact-fi...
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