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Racist attack on a young child from the Turkish community in Western Thrace in Komotini!
07.01.2025
ABTTF President: “We condemn in the strongest terms the racist and vile attack on a defenceless little boy in Komotini. The competent authorities of our country should urgently take the necessary measures to prevent such racist and hate attacks, which harm the peace and tranquillity in our region and the culture of living together and should ...
The issue of the new school building at the Xanthi Turkish Minority Secondary and High School has turned into an unresolved mess
23.12.2024
ABTTF President: “The Ministry claims that the issue does not fall within their jurisdiction, but with the Municipality of Xanthi, while the Municipality notes that minority schools are under the competence of the Ministry! In other words, everyone is throwing the ball to each other! As such, we feel stalled and ridiculed, we have been shouti...
Statement by Deputy Minister of Education Makri distorting the facts about the building problem of Xanthi Turkish Minority Secondary and High School!
18.12.2024
ABTTF President: “What is at stake is the education of our children in an appropriate building and in a healthy environment and the observance of their right to education. Unfortunately, the rulers of our country continue to ignore the educational issues of our community’’. Deputy Minister Zeta Makri responded to a question pos...
The statements of Minister of Foreign Affairs Fidan supporting the Turkish community in Western Thrace caused disturbance in our country
27.11.2024
ABTTF President: “Just as our country takes care of the Greek minority in Albania, protects their rights and negotiates with Albania for the protection and development of their rights, our motherland does the same for us.” Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye Hakan Fidan referred to the Turkish community in Wes...
Stylianidis emphasised the importance of protecting human rights in the age of artificial intelligence
21.11.2024
ABTTF President: “Stylianidis, the MP from our region, who has expressed his sensitivity on this issue in the relevant committee of PACE, refrains from showing the same sensitivity before PACE when it comes to our community whose freedom of association has been violated for more than 16 years, and as a jurist, he does not intervene against th...
MP Stylianidis accuses those who reacted to the provocation at Çınar Mosque of terrorising Turkish nationalism
23.10.2024
ABTTF President: “In what era are we living in, since when has it become a terrorist act to react in a democratic way and to express an opinion on the issue being reacted to? Stylianidis should know that what he is doing is above all a violation of freedom of thought and expression’’. New Democracy MP for the Prefecture of Rodo...
Provocation from appointed mufti regents in Western Thrace!
14.10.2024
ABTTF President: “We strongly condemn this provocative action of the appointed mufti regents, which the Turkish community in Western Thrace has never accepted, disregarding the will of our community and aiming to disturb the peace in the region’’. On Friday, 11 October 2024, the appointed mufti regents of Komotini, Xanthi ...
Another blow to the educational autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace!
06.09.2024
ABTTF President: “The new principal appointments made by bypassing the boards in our two schools are the latest example of the violation of our educational autonomy through various laws and arbitrary practices for years’’. New school principals were appointed to Xanthi Turkish Minority Secondary and High School and Komotini Cel...
Restoration works continue at the historical Sultan Çelebi Mehmet (Beyazıt) Mosque in Didymoteicho
06.08.2024
ABTTF President: “It is the wish and desire of all of us that the restoration works, which began in 2022, five years after the fire in 2017, will be finally completed by the end of 2025, as indicated by the Minister. As we have expressed before, we hope that the restoration works will be carried out in accordance with the original form of the...
4 more Turkish primary schools in Western Thrace are being closed!
22.07.2024
ABTTF President: “On the one hand, the Greek primary school opened for only 3 students with the permission of our motherland in Gökçeada upon the request of the Greek Orthodox minority, with whom we share the same fate, and on the other hand, our Turkish primary schools which have an autonomous status, are closed down by our count...
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