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Our Turkish Schools Are Victims of Our Country’s Malicious Intent!
01.10.2025
Dear readers, The new school year began a few weeks ago in our region, and I wish all our children a successful school year. Unfortunately, our concerns about the educational rights of our children, who are our future, are not diminishing; on the contrary, they are deepening with each passing year. Kindergarten education is compulsory in o...
Divide-and-Rule tactic doesn't work in Western Thrace; we are an indivisible community!
01.09.2025
Dear readers, We are preparing to bid farewell to summer. September began quite quickly, as at the end of August our country implemented a new scenario based on the familiar “divide-and-rule” tactic. The real goal behind what we have experienced from the past to the present is to eradicate the “Turkishness&rdq...
The system is collapsing in our country, which is shaken by fraud involving EU funds
28.07.2025
Dear readers, Unfortunately, our country has been going through a rather turbulent period for some time now. The successive crises have affected political stability and deepened the sense of distrust towards the government among the public. The train accident in Tempi and the protests that followed, which brought people out onto the ...
Our country’s flawed policy has once again proven us right at the ECtHR!
26.06.2025
Dear readers, We are halfway through the year, and we are all eagerly awaiting the summer holidays. In 2014, we witnessed Russia’s annexation of Crimea, followed by the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022. While this war, which also affected Europe, continued, we watched helplessly as the humanitarian tragedy unfolded in Gaza. Follow...
Life passes, but the cause survives!
27.05.2025
Dear readers, A few days ago, I celebrated my 60th birthday with my family, friends and loved ones. Every birthday, I look back on the past and think about what we have experienced and what we have been through. This time, as it was my 60th birthday, I naturally thought back to my early youth and the years of maturity that followed. Aft...
Someone’s true colours have been shown!
14.05.2025
Dear readers, We renewed our trust at the ABTTF General Assembly held on 19 April. The three friends elected to the ABTTF Presidium are new names, and I am sure they will fulfil their duties with distinction. As I said at the General Assembly, we, as the Federation, have always fought for the Turkish community in Western Thrace and w...
No matter how difficult our conditions are, we will not give up our struggle for our rights!
09.04.2025
Dear readers, Although we are autonomous in the field of education, this autonomy has been dismantled due to long years of state intervention. In 1930, we had 305 Turkish primary schools, while this number has decreased over the years. In 2010, the government decided to close public schools with less than 9 students as part of the economic...
When will our state be honest and fair?
05.03.2025
Dear readers, On 28 February 2023, on the second anniversary of the Tempi train crash in which 57 people were killed and many injured, protest marches were held across the country and many trade unions went on a 24-hour strike. Among the protests organised in more than 300 cities in our country and abroad, 430 thousand people attended a...
We continue to walk steadily on a long and thin road!
27.01.2025
Dear readers, It is the anniversary of the events of 29 January 1988. 37 years ago, on 29 January, Western Thrace Turks from seven to seventy, from villagers to townspeople were on the streets. Why? To show our existence against those who say that there are no ‘‘Turks’’! Why? To say ‘‘Enou...
Spin the ball in education!
03.01.2025
Dear readers, We have left 2024 behind... I hope you welcomed the new year with your loved ones in a joyful way; you had a cheerful New Year’s Eve in the warmth of family. As a community, unfortunately, in the last days of December, education was again on our agenda. The rulers of our country made statements as i...
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