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Another statement from Secretary-General Kalantzis targeting the Turkish community in Western Thrace
30.10.2020
ABTTF President: “This insidious policy of the state aims at children belonging to the Turkish community in Western Thrace to lose their identity by preventing them from learning their mother tongue Turkish and to be assimilated. Secretary-General Kalantzis is in the position of having practiced this insidious policy for years”. ...
The religious autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace ignored once more!
19.10.2020
ABTTF President: “The words used by the Secretary General Kalantzis at the Commission for the Development of Thrace once again showed that the Greek state is not willing to engage in a sincere and direct dialogue with the Turkish community in Western Thrace with a constructive and realistic approach.” The Secretary General of Greece&...
Xanthi Turkish Union’s case was discussed at the Court of Cassation
16.10.2020
ABTTF President: ‘We wish the Court of Cassation to take decisions that are in conformity with ECtHR case law and international human rights law. Indeed, states parties to the European Convention on Human Rights are obliged to act in accordance with ECtHR judgments and ECtHR case law’. Xanthi Turkish Union’s recourse for ...
Discriminatory speech from MP Stylianidis at the Commission for the Development of Thrace
15.10.2020
ABTTF President: “The words used by the MP Stylianidis in the speech he made at the Commission for the Development of Thrace are clear proof that in Greece, the Turkish community in Western Thrace is seen as the ‘other’ and considered as a ‘threat.’” In the speech he delivered at the meeting of the inter...
The Greek Council of State rejected the request of the Turkish community in Western Thrace to repeal the decree which violates its religious autonomy!
09.10.2020
ABTTF President: “The Council of State, which should be independent, acted as a spokesperson for the political power by ignoring the existence of unlawful articles in the decree containing regulations on our mufti offices.” The General Assembly of the Council of State of Greece has rejected the lawsuit brought and calling for t...
President of the Commission for the Development of Thrace Bakoyannis visited Western Thrace
28.09.2020
ABTTF President: “We do hope and wish that our demands for the solution of our problems will be taken into consideration by the Commission for the Development of Thrace and that this visit will contribute for the Greek government to establish a solution-oriented and sincere dialogue mechanism with the Turkish community in Western Thrace.&rdqu...
Building shortage problem at Xanthi Minority Secondary and High School still waiting to be resolved
09.09.2020
ABTTF President: “We call on the Greek authorities to stop ignoring the requests of the board of the Xanthi Minority Secondary and High School and to immediately take the necessary steps for a new building which would be of sufficient capacity for the number of pupils of the school.” The issue of insufficient building and class...
The Mayor of Myki (Mustafçova) was targeted by the Greek press!
26.08.2020
ABTTF President: “We strongly condemn the deliberate targeting of our mayor with unfounded and false news, and we want the provocative propaganda aimed at putting pressure on representatives of the Turkish community in Western Thrace in our country Greece to end at once.” The Mayor of Myki (Mustafçova) Rıdvan Delihü...
Scandal: In the Turkish village of Glafki, soldiers are on the street!
13.08.2020
ABTTF President: “I ask the EU and the German Presidency of the EU Council: What will you do against such trampling on human and minority rights, threatening the safety of its citizens in an EU member country by taking soldiers into the streets?” On August 12, 2020, in Gökçepınar (Glafki), one of the Turkish v...
8 additional Turkish primary schools will be closed in the new academic year!
12.08.2020
ABTTF President: “The closure of our Turkish primary schools under the pretext of austerity measures and lesser number of students at schools has become a tool of the systematic discrimination by our own country against the Turkish community in Western Thrace” The Greek Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs d...
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