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Question for written answer to the European Commission regarding hate speech targeting the Turkish community in Western Thrace
28.04.2023
Member of the European Parliament (MEP) François Alfonsi (France, Greens/EFA) submitted a question for written answer to the European Commission as regards hate speech and systematic discrimination targeting the Turkish community in Western Thrace in Greece. In the question for written answer which was directed by MEP Alfonsi to the Europ...
Nasty statements before the upcoming elections
15.03.2023
ABTTF President: “Ramadan is sacred for the Islamic world, and it continues to be kept alive for the Turkish community in Western Thrace as a religious and cultural tradition with iftars and other events. Just as important religious days of other well-known religions in our country are respected and even celebrated by others, the same respect...
Prosecutor of Rodopi filed a lawsuit for the revocation of the registration of the Western Thrace Fenerbahçe Association
02.03.2023
ABTTF President: “The lawsuit filed to revoke the registration of this association, which is only a supporters’ association, is a sign of how strong the attitudes, prejudices and stereotypes towards the Turkish community in Western Thrace are at every level, including the judiciary. We will all continue to follow the issue, and we will ...
Western Thrace Fenerbahçe Association, which organised a charity campaign, was targeted
15.02.2023
ABTTF President: “While our country, with all its citizens, institutions, and professional chambers is standing with our motherland in these difficult days and sharing its pain and that the Minister of Foreign Affairs of our country personally visited the earthquake zone and declared that our country will continue to do its best to overcome t...
Bakoyannis: “A concrete and long-term plan is being implemented that will change the production model of the region for the better”
23.01.2023
ABTTF President: “We demand that Turkish manufacturers and enterprises in our region be taken into account and not excluded, without discrimination, in the implementation of the long-term plan for the economic development of Western Thrace. Only then can a total economic development be achieved in our region.” In a statement, Chairma...
The Turkish community was ignored again during the visit of Prime Minister Mitsotakis to Western Thrace!
16.01.2023
ABTTF President: “We are calling out to Mitsotakis, the prime minister of our country: Real equality will be achieved by the state with the restoration of our educational and religious autonomy as one of the two peoples living in the region! Just as we made use of our citizenship rights on 29 January 1988, as a result of our patience in the f...
A new example of the denial of the Turkish identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace in Greece
17.11.2022
ABTTF President: “In general, state authorities have been voicing the claim that there are no ‘‘Turks’’ in our country for years. The people of our country have been so brainwashed by the discourse in politics and media that denies our Turkish identity that even non-governmental organisations have come to the point of ...
Lawsuit for the cancellation of the Western Thrace Fenerbahçe Association
24.10.2022
ABTTF President: “Kakoulidis, whom is someone from our region, harms the peaceful coexistence culture in our region by portraying it as if there is an issue. First of all, Kakoulidis should act responsibly as the head of a non-governmental organisation, and should encourage friendship and brotherhood in our region, not othering, in his statem...
Our country continues its practices that violate the religious autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
20.10.2022
As ABTTF, we underline that the law dated 29 July 2022, which aims to completely eliminate our religious autonomy, is null and void for the Turkish community in Western Thrace, and we call on our country to comply with the treaties to which it is a party regulating our religious autonomy and to immediately end its unilateral practices on the mufti ...
Xanthi Deputy Hüseyin Zeybek was threatened with death on live television
16.09.2022
ABTTF President: “As the representative of Western Thrace Turks living in Europe and as ABTTF, we strongly condemn the public death threat of our deputy Hüseyin Zeybek. This grave incident has taken place in our country as a result of the increasing hate speech against the Turkish community in Western Thrace in politics and media and the...
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