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Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey Yavuz Selim Kıran visited Western Thrace
07.05.2021
ABTTF President: “Minorities in the two countries should be considered as an element of richness, not as a threat to their countries, and should be seen as bridge-builders in improving the relations between the two countries. As the Turkish community in Western Thrace, we want to establish a dialogue with the rulers and authorities of our cou...
Greek authorities know no bounds in discriminating against the Turkish community in Western Thrace!
30.04.2021
ABTTF President: “It is a clear discrimination that Turkish teachers are not given appointments to get vaccinated. The health of teachers and students is at stake during the pandemic period. The authorities of our country should immediately solve this problem, and our teachers at our two schools should be able to get their vaccinations as soo...
The elections for the school boards in the schools of the Turkish community in Western Thrace have been postponed again
21.04.2021
ABTTF President: “We call on the authorities of our country to respond to our requests regarding the school board elections in our schools and to immediately end the deadlock approach that it insists on.” The elections for the school boards in the schools with autonomous status belonging to the Turkish community in Western Thrace hav...
Rodopi MP Haritou alleged that Turkey is instrumentalising the issue of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
21.04.2021
ABTTF President: “Just as our country indicates the demands of the Greek Orthodox minority in our motherland, our motherland, which is signatory to the Treaty of Lausanne raises the problems we are experiencing. There is nothing wrong with that or to be afraid of it.” In a statement he delivered with respect to the meeting between th...
The Turkish community in Western Thrace expects its demands regarding the elections for school boards to be met
14.04.2021
ABTTF President: “We support the demand of the Union of School Boards of the Western Thrace Minority Schools and want the mandates of the school boards in our schools to be extended until the end of this year if the elections cannot be held due to the pandemic conditions.” The Turkish community in Western Thrace continues to re...
Stylianidis: “(Western) Thrace is an example of an open and democratic society model and Greece fully respects human and minority rights”
09.04.2021
ABTTF President: ”Stylianidis again denied our Turkish identity and accused us of Turkish nationalism. The fact that the FEP Party, the political party of the Turkish community, won the most votes in the EP elections in 2014 and 2019 in the Western Thrace provinces of Rodopi and Xanthi is telling a lot.” The New Democracy Party (ND) ...
The Turkish community in Western Thrace was once again discriminated by the Greek government!
22.03.2021
ABTTF President: “As it is understood, the inter-party Commission for the Development of Thrace which was established in the Greek Parliament in July 2020 is only a commission for the producers belonging to the majority living in the region. Indeed, if the Commission had good intentions, it would surely have considered our proposal for the ex...
Following the broadcast of “Minority Between East-West” on ERT 1, the Turkish community is again targeted!
19.03.2021
ABTTF President: “If the minority referred in the Lausanne Treaty is a Muslim minority as the state claims, and consists of Turkish, Pomak and Roma elements, why do only Turks become targets when they say they are Turkish?” The Turkish community in Western Thrace was discussed in the broadcast entitled “Minority Between East-We...
The Greek state continues to appoint the administrative boards of the foundations (waqfs) belonging to the Turkish community in Western Thrace
18.03.2021
ABTTF President: “We call on our country Greece to return our right to freely elect the administrative boards of our foundations (waqfs) by reminding it of its responsibilities and obligations arising from the Treaty of Lausanne.” The Greek media reported that the Greek state did not allow the election of administrative boards of fou...
Uncertainty regarding the elections for the councillors’ delegations in the Western Thrace Turkish minority schools continues
16.03.2021
ABTTF President: “We request from the Greek authorities that the elections for the councillors’ delegations in the Western Thrace Turkish minority schools are held urgently within the framework of our educational autonomy.” The elections for the councillors’ delegations in schools belonging to the Turkish community in Wes...
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