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Demand of the Western Thrace Turkish community for having bilingual minority kindergartens persists
14.08.2017
Halit Habip Oğlu: “With the demand of granting the right to education in mother tongue in preschool education we want bilingual minority kindergartens teaching in Turkish and Greek” The Consultative Committee of the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace(BTTADK) repeated its demand for opening minority kindergartens teaching in Turkish and Greek in ...
Municipality of Mustafçova(Myki) demanded the personnel to be recruited for the EU program have a command of Turkish, prosecution office started investigation
02.06.2017
Seeking for Turkish language proficiency in the vacancy announcement made within the framework of the EU programme foreseeing establishment of social centers at municipalities affiliated to the State of the Eastern Macedonia-Thrace by the Municipality of Mustafçova(Myki) which is the only Turkish minority municipality of Xhanti, caused a reaction i...
Mufti of Komotini İbrahim Şerif called once again to bear testimony!
01.06.2017
Halit Habip Oğlu: “Greek authorities’ intention of intimidation and suppression against muftis who are religious leaders of the Western Thrace Turks should immediately come to an end.” İbrahim Şerif, Mufti of Komotini, elected by the Western Thrace Turks living in Greece, bore once again testimony at the police department upon the order by the ...
Masjid belonging to Western Thrace Turks in Thessaloniki closed down!
29.05.2017
Halit Habip Oğlu: “Greece hinders the Western Thrace Turks from exercising their prayer freely by closing down the masjids in Alexandria, Didymoteicho and now in Thessaloniki.” The masjid of the association established by the Western Thrace Turks in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece was closed down. According to the daily Birlik, the masjid under...
Religious autonomy of Western Thrace Turks is being abolished step by step by the Greek government
04.04.2017
Halit Habip Oğlu: “As the Western Thrace Turks without permitting another fait accompli of the Greek government, we should advocate our religious autonomy within the scope of rules of law to the end which we guaranteed with agreements through utilization of all democratic tools in hand.” The Greek government established a commission on operation...
Weapon found in the minaret of Iliopetra (Göynüklü) mosque in Western Thrace
30.03.2017
Halit Habip Oğlu: “As ABTTF while we wish good recovery to imam Sabri Emin Kahya, we would like to emphasize that as Western Thrace Turks we are always against violence and terrorism.” At the mosque in Iliopetra (Göynüklü) village in the province of Xanthi in Greece, the public prosecutor and police made a search upon a denouncement. At the sear...
Condemnation by FUEN for the attitude of the Greek authorities against the elected Muftis of Western Thrace Turks
29.03.2017
FUEN expressed its strong support to the elected Mufti of Xanthi Ahmet Mete and the elected Mufti of Komotini İbrahim Şerif. The Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), of which the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) is an ordinary member, informed in its press release FUEN is deeply concerned that the recent judicial i...
Historical mosque in Didymoticho damaged severely by fire
23.03.2017
Halit Habip Oğlu: “We expect that Greek authorities detect immediately the reason for the fire outbreak at Çelebi Sultan Mehmet (Beyazıt) Mosque which is under protection of the Greek Ministry of Culture as a cultural artifact and the offenders account before justice.” A fire started at historical Mosque Çelebi Sultan Mehmet (Beyazıt) in Didymot...
Masjid belonging to Western Thrace Turks in Dimetoka also closed!
17.03.2017
Halit Habip Oğlu: “Closing of the masjid in Aleksandria and now the masjid in Didymoticho are the latest examples for restriction of freedom of religion and worship of the Western Thrace Turks with systematic interventions by the Greek authorities.” The masjid belonging to the association established by the Western Thrace Turks in Didymoticho a...
A pilot project implementation in six public kindergartens in Western Thrace
02.03.2017
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: "Our demand is very clear that we want bilingual minority kindergartens within the minority schooling system" The Institute of Educational Policies under the Ministry of Education of Greece declared that they would carry out a pilot project which envisages that a bilingual minority member, graduated from one of ...
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