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Imprisonment and fine for Koray Hasan on the grounds of an accusation for an unauthorized renovation!
03.10.2018
Koray Hasan, Ex-President of Komotini Turkish Youth Union (GTGB) founded in 1928, has been sentenced to 6 months of imprisonment and 5 thousand euros fine by the Court of First Instance with Single Judge on the grounds that he carried out allegedly an unauthorized renovation in the clubhouse of the Union. Koray Hasan who served as the president ...
Boycotts for a better education in the Turkish minority schools in Western Thrace
27.09.2018
Halit Habip Oğlu: “As ABTTF, we support the struggle and decision on boycott launched by the parents to ensure a better education for their children belonging to the Turkish community in Western Thrace. We believe that the Greek textbook chaos in Turkish minority primary schools certainly should be resolved in line with the demands of the parents a...
Religious autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace is being abolished!
03.09.2018
Halit Habip Oğlu: “It is targeted with the recent presidential decree that mufti offices are turned into state institutions, and the religious autonomy guaranteed by international treaties of the Turkish community in Western Thrace is being completely abolished” The draft presidential decree, which foresees restructuring of mufti offices with au...
Rejection to Xanthi Turkish Union by the Court of Appeal of Thrace!
10.07.2018
Habip Oğlu: “Our trust in justice in our country, Greece, diminishes more in time. However, this decision is rather political not legal, we all know this” Following adoption of the law 4491/2017, the Thrace Court of Appeal rejected the application of Xanthi Turkish Union for the return of its legal entity. In its judgment of 22 June 2018, the T...
Turkish community in Western Thrace demands bilingual minority kindergartens
18.04.2018
Halit Habip Oğlu: “We call on our country Greece to act no longer according to political calculations, but rather to establish a permanent structure which will ensure the smooth transition of the children belonging to the Turkish community in Western Thrace from kindergartens to bilingual primary and secondary education within the autonomous minori...
Conference by Xanthi Turkish Union in the 10th year of ECtHR judgment
02.04.2018
Established in 1927, Xanthi Turkish Union(İTB), of which signboard was removed in 1983 and which was dissolved in 1986 on the ground that it had the word “Turkish” in its name, organized a conference in the tenth year of the judgment of 2008 of the European Court of Human Rights(ECtHR), which convicted that Greece violated the right to freedom of a...
Lawsuit against the Elected Mufti of Komotini İbrahim Şerif
09.03.2018
Halit Habip Oğlu: “We want actions and practices aiming to suppress and intimidate with groundless accusations the muftis elected by the Turkish community in Western Thrace itself terminated immediately.” A lawsuit was filed against İbrahim Şerif, Elected Mufti of Komotini in Greece and Chairman of the Western Thrace Turkish Minority Consultati...
Islam and Sharia Panel with appointed muftis in Komotini
07.03.2018
Halit Habip Oğlu: “Our Country Greece again goes in its own way, implements the scenario it previously prepared, actual objective is to abolish religious freedom completely! On 28 February 2018, a panel was held in Komotini with the title “Muftiships in Thrace and Sharia”. The panel was organized by Islam Religious Instructors Association which ...
The Case of Xanthi Turkish Union was heard at Court of Appeal of Thrace
13.02.2018
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: “Regarding the case of Xanthi Turkish Union, which was turned out to be a political problem, we demand from Greek courts to give decision in compliance with the judgments of European Court of Human Rights” On 9 February 2018, the Court of Appeal of Thrace heard the case regarding the demand for return of officia...
Another blow on religious autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace!
12.01.2018
Halit Habip Oğlu: “As it is in laws adopted related to the educational autonomy and their implementation, the objective is to weaken the foundations of the religious autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace which has been guaranteed by international treaties and eventually abolish completely our religious autonomy based on customary law....
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