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Habip Oğlu: The Turkish cultural identity of Western Thrace must be taken into account!
10.10.2025
ABTTF President: “Our country’s leaders must now realise that nothing can be achieved through a policy of denial. The Turkish cultural identity in the cities of Western Thrace, particularly Komotini and Xanthi, which are included in this project run by the Ministry of Culture, must also be taken into account in the implementation of the...
Xanthi Turkish Minority Secondary and High School Board: We are not being allowed to enter the building of the school we manage!
01.10.2025
ABTTF President: “We are well aware that our country aims to completely eliminate our Turkish school system and educational autonomy through these arbitrary and oppressive practices, but we will never allow this to happen. We stand firmly behind the Xanthi Turkish Minority Secondary and High School Board in their democratic and just struggle....
Police violence in Xanthi: A member of the Turkish community in Western Thrace was beaten!
30.09.2025
ABTTF President: ‘‘We strongly condemn the completely arbitrary arrest and beating of a member of our community by a police officer in Xanthi and convey our best wishes to him and his family. The police officer responsible for this incident, which tramples on human dignity, and other responsible parties must be held accountable as soon ...
Kathimerini addressed the schools of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and the schools of the Greek Orthodox minority
16.09.2025
ABTTF President: “On the one hand, our country Greece, which has closed our autonomous primary schools in violation of the Treaty of Lausanne and refuses to re-open those that have reached sufficient number of pupils, such as in the village of Paleo Zigos (Mizanlı). On the other hand, our motherland Türkiye, which permits the opening of ...
The Turkish community in Western Thrace protested against Greece’s discriminatory education policy!
11.09.2025
ABTTF President: “Over the years, our country has systematically closed dozens of our primary schools in violation of our educational autonomy guaranteed by the Treaty of Lausanne, thereby infringing upon our community’s right to education and jeopardising our children’s future.” The Turkish community in Western Thrace pr...
Article in the Political newspaper about Turkish primary schools being closed in Western Thrace
26.08.2025
ABTTF President: “While our primary schools are being closed in violation of our educational autonomy, and despite the fact that we constitute the majority of the population in the prefecture of Rodopi and nearly half of the population in the prefecture of Xanthi, permission is not granted to open bilingual Turkish minority kindergartens. Whi...
Three more Turkish primary schools to be closed in Western Thrace!
07.08.2025
ABTTF President: “As we have repeatedly emphasised, the state intends to completely abolish our educational autonomy, which is guaranteed by the treaties. The decisions to close our primary schools, the unilateral laws that have weakened our educational autonomy over the years, and arbitrary practices are all aimed at this goal’’....
Bornovas: Development funds earmarked for Western Thrace should strengthen social balance in the region and increase the presence of the state
23.07.2025
ABTTF President: ‘‘The exclusion of our community from the distribution of funds intended to strengthen social balance in our region, as indicated by Bornovas, is blatant discrimination! However, as we have always said, our region, which is one of the most economically underdeveloped regions of the European Union, needs a comprehensive ...
Government offers €10,000 incentive to those settling in Evros
15.07.2025
ABTTF President: “Instead of deciding to relocate people to the region using buckets of water, so to speak, the government should implement a comprehensive development plan. In this way, the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, which is the most economically underdeveloped region of our country, will achieve multi-faceted regional developm...
Enrolment has begun for the Xanthi Turkish Minority Middle and High School
11.06.2025
ABTTF President: “Our autonomous and private schools are the future of our community, and it is vital that our children attend Turkish schools in order to preserve and perpetuate our ethnic Turkish identity, our mother tongue Turkish, and our culture. With this awareness, we are calling on the parents of students graduating from primary schoo...
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