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Hail and Flood Catastrophe in Western Thrace
09.08.2005
Press Office of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF)- Witten, 08 August 2005 Hail and Flood Catastrophe in Western Thrace Heavy rain showers and hail in the Turkish settlement region in Greece Komotini have caused big damages. The rain showers have caused the largest damages in the villages of Bulduklu, Kalfa, Demirciler a...
The Plundering of the Foundations in the Western Thrace Continues
12.07.2005
Press Office of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF), Witten, 12 July 2005 The Plundering of the Foundations in the Western Thrace Continues After the Junta government, which had taken the political power over in 1967, the foundations of the Western Thrace Turkish minority, whose executives cannot be elected by the minor...
Call from the Organization of the Islamic Conference
09.07.2005
Respect Call from the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) for the Identity of the Western Thrace Turks At the OIC 32. Term Foreign Ministers Meeting which took place in Jemen, it was called that all the measures should be taken in order that the identity and rights of the Western Thrace Muslim Turkish Minority in Greece were preserved. ...
The suffering of the tobacco producers doesn’t go to an end
14.06.2005
Press Bureau of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF)- Witten, 14 June 2005 Press Release: The suffering of the tobacco producers doesn’t go to an end The President of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF), Halit Habiboglu, evaluated the deterioration of the economic conditions of the Western Thrace T...
The petition to foundation has been rejected
19.05.2005
Greece’s highest civil court (Arios Pagos) rejected the appeal petition of “Cultural Association of Turkish Women in Rhodope”, whose petition to foundation had been not accepted by the lesser court. Athens News Agent (ANA) announced that the Supreme Court had rejected the appeal petition on the grounds that the aims of the association were not c...
The Statement of MRG related to Cultural Association of Turkish Women in Rhodope
19.05.2005
“The International Minority Rights Group (IMRG)” having the headquarters in London has published a written statement related to the official ban of the “Turkish Union of Xanthi (ITB)” by the Greek Highest Court of Appeals, Arios Pagos, and the permission not given to the foundation of the “Cultural Association of Turkish Women in Rhodope” with the ...
Ministerial promise for the dam near Yassiköy
31.03.2005
The Greek minister for agricultural development and nutrition Evangelos Basiakos promised at his visit in Komotini at the beginning of March the construction of the dam near Yassýköy (Iasmos). Basiakos who made a speech on March 6th at the General office for the region of Western Macedonia and Thrace within the scope of a reunion of directors of th...
The grave robbers have been punished but the tombstones have not been returned
31.03.2005
In August of 2000 grave robbers stole tombstones which dated from times of the Ottoman Empire from the cemetery of the village of Kamberler (Ano Kambi) in the region Mehrikoz (Kehros). Ýbrahim Çakýr and his son Mehmet from Kamberler have observed the grave robbers and intervened. The thieves managed to steal the historic tombstones from the sce...
Letter to Karamanlis from Ilhan Ahmet
24.02.2005
ILHAN AHMET Rodopis Member of Parliament – Nea Dimokratia Komotini, 21/2/2005 To: the Prime Minister Mr. Konstantinos Karamanlis Mr. Prime Minister The “Xanthi Turkish Union” was established in 1927 as the “Home of Xanthi Turkish Youth”, it was based in the town of Xanthi and it is historically the first association of the minor...
Ban sought for 2nd ‘Turk’ body
20.02.2005
In a second court case on the sensitive issue of whether Thrace’s Muslim minority can call itself an ethnic, rather than religious minority, a Supreme Court judge has urged a ban on a Rhodope women’s association that uses the word “Turkish” in its name. Court sources said yesterday that judge Dimitris Kyritsakis has called on the Fourth Section ...
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