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The restoration of the Didymoteicho Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Mosque will finally start after 5 years!
28.06.2022
ABTTF President: “Five years after the fire, we are of course hopeful that the restoration work on the mosque will finally begin. Stating that the restoration has to be included in the Recovery Fund due to the fact that the project budget is very large, the Minister’s statement shows the shame that has been going on for five years in th...
The ECtHR judgments regarding the Bekir-Ousta and Others Group of Cases are still pending to be executed in their 14th anniversary
28.03.2022
ABTTF President: “We know that the ECtHR judgments are not executed for political reasons, not legal ones. We now demand that the Committee of Ministers initiate the infringement procedure against Greece in June 2022 as a result of the examination.” The judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) regarding the closure of ...
We condemn in the strongest terms the destruction of the Turkish cemetery in Xanthi!
16.03.2022
ABTTF President: “The destruction of Ottoman tombs and tombstones by the municipal machinery is a great disrespect to those lying there and a blatant attack on our cultural heritage. With this latest action, which we absolutely do not condone, intolerance towards the historical monuments from the Ottoman heritage and negative attitude towards...
An investigation has been launched into the march organized by the Xanthi Turkish Union!
10.02.2022
ABTTF President: “The launch of an investigation after 7 months of the democratic march organised by the Xanthi Turkish Union, which has been struggling for 39 years, is a clear continuation of our country’s policies of intimidation and suppression of the Turkish community in Western Thrace. As ABTTF, we will continue to support the Xan...
An anti-Islam poster was put up opposite to the historic Çelebi Sultan Mehmet Mosque in the town of Didymoteicho!
01.02.2022
ABTTF President: “We strongly condemn the evil mentality that planned to put up an anti-Islam poster opposite to the historic Çelebi Sultan Mehmet Mosque in the town of Didymoteicho. Unfortunately, this attack is a fundamental indicator of how widespread hate speech and Islamophobia is in our country and of a fascistic view’&rs...
Action against rights violations and unlawful practices in the field of education from the Turkish community in Western Thrace
20.12.2021
ABTTF President: “Our country, Greece, must now listen to the just demands we have made for years so that our children can have a better education, and establish a long-lasting dialogue with our community based on good faith to solve the issues.” The Turkish community in Western Thrace organised an action to draw attention to the iss...
The Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs ignored the Turkish community in Western Thrace once again
14.12.2021
ABTTF President: “Our country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dendias will hopefully visit the provinces of Rodopi and Xanthi in the future and meet with our elected leaders of our community, who make up the majority of the population in the province of Rodopi and almost half of the population in the province of Xanthi.” Gr...
ABTTF attended the conference on Greece’s policy of non-execution of ECtHR judgments organised by the Xanthi Turkish Union
13.12.2021
The Xanthi Turkish Union (XTU), the oldest association of the Turkish community in Western Thrace which was founded in 1927 but closed in 1986 by the Greek national courts on grounds of the word ‘Turkish’ in its name, held an online conference titled “Greece’s Policy of Non-Execution of ECtHR Judgments regarding the Turkish ...
The final report of the Commission for the Development of Thrace was disappointing for the Turkish community in Western Thrace
06.12.2021
ABTTF President: “We would like to point out that we strongly reject the final report of the commission, which does not consider the rightful demands of our community, consists only of empty promises rather than concrete proposals for the development of the region and clearly serves a different purpose.” The final report of the Commi...
The Turkish community in Western Thrace, which Greece still denies its ethnic Turkish identity, always faces discrimination
24.11.2021
ABTTF President: “We have been exposed to the sharpest discrimination in political, social and economic areas in our country for years. Just as there are Greek-Albanian citizens living in Albania, we live in our country as Greek citizens of Turkish descent, and we want our rights to be respected without being subjected to discrimination.&rdqu...
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