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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...
Newsbreak: “Someone needs to pull the ear of the unruly Muslims in Thrace’’
04.07.2024
ABTTF President: “According to Lausanne, if there are Muslim minorities in Greece, there are also non-Muslim minorities in Türkiye. I would like to ask Bolosis, if there are no Turks in our region, why do we have Turkish-language schools, why do we have Turkish-language newspapers? I would recommend Bolosis to look at the number of votes...
Here is justice in our country: Western Thrace Fenerbahçe Association is being dissolved!
30.05.2024
ABTTF President: “In the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases, we said that unless the ECtHR judgments were executed, similar cases would come before the ECtHR. Unfortunately, we were right. In circumstances where the ECtHR judgments regarding the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases have not been executed by Greece for the past 16 years, t...
Stylianidis claimed that Türkiye’s established policy is to try to instrumentalise the Turkish community in Western Thrace
23.05.2024
ABTTF President: “It is obvious that the words used by Stylianidis which are inconsistent with the facts, do not benefit the positive agenda and dialogue efforts that have gained momentum between our country and our motherland after the recent high-level talks. The facts that are confirmed by the numbers is that the FEP Party became the first...
Those who do not solve the building issue at Xanthi Turkish Secondary School continue to ignore us
07.05.2024
ABTTF President: “The fact that no solution has been found to the ongoing issue in our school in Xanthi is a clear summary of the perception and attitude towards our community! The rulers of our country have been deaf to our demands”. Following the protests against double-shift schooling at the Xanthi Turkish Minority Secondary and H...
The Deputy Director of Education of the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace ignored the educational autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
25.04.2024
ABTTF President: “It is our country that does not comply with the treaties by violating our educational autonomy, which was guaranteed by the Treaty of Lausanne and functioned well from 1923 to 1977, with unilateral laws and practices! If our country restores our educational autonomy, all existing issues will be solved by themselves.’&r...
Statements from Stylianidis regarding education
03.04.2024
ABTTF President: “We hope and would like Stylianidis, who is also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, to refer to the issues our community is faced with in the field of education in his speeches and statements as a Member of Parliament of our region and to convince the government in resolving these issues’&r...
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