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Greece has once again disregarded the will of the Turkish Minority in Western Thrace by appointing muftis to Komotini and Xanthi!
23.10.2026
ABTTF President: “Whilst other known religions in our country, Greece, are able to appoint their own religious leaders, the fact that our muftis are appointed by the state constitutes a clear double standard and discrimination. Moreover, our religious autonomy is guaranteed by treaties! We do not accept the violation of our religious autonomy...
Our pupils at the Xanthi Turkish Minority Secondary and High School staged a boycott to demand better educational conditions
06.10.2026
ABTTF President: “We support our pupils’ calls for better educational conditions. Our children should not have to bear the burden of problems that have remained unresolved for years! We call on the relevant authorities to find solutions to the problems at our school without delay.” Pupils at the Xanthi Turkish Minority Secondar...
Whilst the school of the Turkish Minority in Western Thrace is being closed, the public school in the same village is being expanded!
15.09.2026
ABTTF President: “Whilst, on the one hand, schools for the Turkish minority are being closed down one by one on grounds of low number of pupils, and, on the other hand, public schools in the same areas are expanding, this clearly highlights the consequences of our country’s policy towards the education of the Turkish minority. This is n...
We strongly condemn the despicable attack on the Çınar Mosque in Xanthi!
14.09.2026
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: “We strongly condemn this despicable and provocative act targeting the Turkish Minority in Western Thrace. We call on the relevant authorities in Greece to address this incident not merely as a case of vandalism, but within the context of the deepening climate of hatred directed at our Minority, and to identi...
Restoration work on the historic Çelebi Sultan Mehmet (Beyazıt) Mosque in Didymoteicho is nearing completion
14.08.2026
ABTTF President: “As ABTTF, we have, from the very beginning, drawn attention to the delays in the restoration of the mosque following the fire before the United Nations and the Council of Europe, and in 2022—five years after the 2017 fire—we called on our country to ensure that the restoration work, which had begun that year, be ...
A statement from Kosmidou that went beyond her authority
22.07.2026
ABTTF President: “The fact that an education bureaucrat is going beyond education policies to offer assessments on foreign policy, the interpretation of the Treaty of Lausanne, and Türkiye-Greece relations clearly demonstrates that this is a political issue. As we have always said, the real purpose behind the closure of our primary schoo...
Greece continues to close Turkish primary schools in Western Thrace one by one
14.07.2026
ABTTF President: “The closure of our schools, one by one each year, is the result of a systematic policy designed to gradually erode our educational autonomy. To deprive a community of its schools is to target not only its educational institutions, but also its memory, its language and its future. This is nothing less than the systematic dism...
Western Thrace Turks who protested against the provocations of the muftis appointed by Greece were sentenced to prison
19.06.2026
ABTTF Başkanı: “As ABTTF, the representative body of the Western Thrace Turks living in Europe, we strongly condemn the court’s unjust prison sentence handed down to four representatives of our minority; we extend our best wishes to them and want them to know that we stand by them at all times”. On 11 October 2024, the then app...
The appeal filed by the Western Thrace Fenerbahçe Culture and Sports Association has been rejected!
11.06.2026
ABTTF President: “Considering that our country Greece has failed to execute the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgments regarding the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases for the past 18 years and has completely disregarded them, this latest decision is not of a legal nature but is entirely political in character, demonstratin...
Defence Minister Dendias once again denied the Turkish identity of the Turkish Minority in Western Thrace
19.05.2026
ABTTF President: “The presence of the Turkish Minority in Western Thrace is an undeniable fact. As we have always said, we who have lived on this land for centuries are an inseparable part of our country through our Turkish identity, and we are a source of wealth for our country. However, contrary to Dendias’ claims, our country is excl...
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