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PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights adopted the draft resolution with regard to the report of Michel Hunault
25.03.2009
The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted the draft resolution with regard to the report prepared by Michel Hunault on “Freedom of religion and other human rights for non-Muslim minorities in Turkey and for the Muslim minority in Thrace (Eastern Greece)” on 24 March 2009. ...
The Greek Member State Committee of EBLUL expresses its anger and disgust for the cold-blooded attack against the member of its Board Abdulhalim Dede, while talking live to a TV show
26.02.2009
The Greek Member State Committee of the European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages (EBLUL) expresses its anger and disgust for the cold-blooded attack against the member of its Board Abdulhalim Dede, while talking live to a TV show. Anger and disgust not only for this cowardly act but mainly for what caused and followed it. Abdulhalim Dede would ...
SEEMO/IPI concerned about physical attack on journalist Abdulhalim Dede during live broadcast
25.02.2009
The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is deeply concerned about the physical attack on journalist Abdulhalim Dede on 19 February while he was on-air during the morning programme,...
Xanthi Civil Court of First Instance handled the case of Xanthi Turkish Union
23.02.2009
The Xanthi Civil Court of First Instance handled the file claimed by the Xanthi Turkish Union on 19th February 2009 to retrieve the previous legal status of the Union as of before 1983. Ozan Ahmetoglu, Chairman of the Xanthi Turkish Union, members of the Union’s executive board and Western Thrace Turkish minority members participated the hearing. A...
Comments of Yannis Valinakis, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, about Western Thrace Turkish minority
18.02.2009
Yannis Valinakis, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, responded the motion of Andreas Loverdos, PASOK’s person in charge for Foreign Affairs, about the activities of the Turkish Consulate in Thrace. Valinakis stated that Greece strictly implemented “equal rights” and “equality before law” principles for all of her citizens in Western Thrace...
Minority demands a new education policy
07.01.2009
The Turkish Minority of Western Thrace does have a host of problems in the field of education. The President of Western Thrace Minority Education and Culture Company(BAKEŞ) Galip Galip declared that initiatives in the field of education were constantly hindered. Answering the questions of minority newspaper Gündem, Galip told that a new education p...
Education year started with problems in the 1st Minority School in Xanthi
23.09.2008
Problems of the Western Thrace Turkish Minority in the field of education still continue in the 2008-2009 education year. 24 students, who could not make their registration to the 1st Minority School in Xanthi between 1-20 June 2008 due to specific reasons applied for late registration between 1-7 September 2008, and the principal of the school app...
The problems of the minority were discussed during the plenary session of the Greek Parliament
04.07.2008
On 23 June 2008, Ahmet Haciosman, MP of PASOK political party from Rodopi district, made a speech during the debates on the draft law on “the General Framework of the Plan for Public Works and Sustainable Development” prepared by the Ministry of Public Works, Housing and Environment in the Greek Parliament. Haciosman expressed criticism that althou...
“Hıdır Baba Dervish Lodge” has been changed into “Agios Georgios Monastery”
30.05.2008
Father Hıdır (Hıdır Baba) is one of the second alperen groups which came to the “Balkans to meet the people there with Turkishness and Islam” after the Simply Yellow (Sarı Saltuk). In the book named “History of Edirne and Memoirs of the Balkan Wars” written by Dağdevirenzâde Mustafa Şevket who was a mutasarrıf, the governor of a district, in Dedeağ...
Western Thrace Turkish Minority has won a victory before the ECHR
27.03.2008
The European Court of Human Rights(ECHR), has notified in writing its Chamber judgments in the cases of Tourkiki Enosi Xanthis (Xanthi Turkish Union) and Others v. Greece and Emin and Others v. Greece and the Court convicted Greece for the cases that was brought before the ECHR in the date of July 2005 by the Xanthi Turkish Union which was abolishe...
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