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Visit to ABTTF from the Director of the Museum of Football, Culture and Identity in Milan
19.04.2023
Francesco Zema, sports reporter from Milan, Italy, and Director of the Football, Culture and Identity Museum named ‘‘CALCI’’, visited the headquarters of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) in Witten, Germany, on 18 April 2023, after a visit he realised to Western Thrace. Zema met with ABTTF President...
Report from ABTTF in response to the Greece Report on the U.S. Human Rights Practices Report for 2022
17.04.2023
ABTTF President: “Unfortunately, the U.S. Greece Human Rights Report gives less and less coverage to the issues of our community each year, which damages the credibility and reliability of the U.S. report. As every year, we have clearly expressed this criticism in the report we prepared as a response to the US Greece 2022 Human Rights Report....
Manipulative news from the Greek press about the article of the ABTTF President on the upcoming general elections in our country
06.04.2023
ABTTF President: “As ABTTF, we have only supported Turkish candidates in the general, regional, and local elections in our country. As I have clearly stated in my article, which is the subject of the news, we, as ABTTF, support Turkish candidates in the upcoming general elections. Ultimately, however, voting rights are personal in democracies...
Western Thrace Turkish Delegation at OSCE
14.03.2023
At the meeting which was focusing on media freedom, ABTTF and WTMUGA indicated that political discourse and actions also shape the media and pointed out that the news targeting Western Thrace Turks and hate speech in the media have increased. The Western Thrace Turkish delegation, consisting of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (A...
ABTTF President meets with Members of the Bundestag in Berlin
02.03.2023
Examples of hate speech targeting the Turkish community in Western Thrace were conveyed in the meetings held within the scope of the working visit. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) paid a working visit to the capital of Germany, Berlin, on 1 March 2023. ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu met with German Bundestag depu...
Happy International Mother Language Day!
21.02.2023
ABTTF President: “Despite UNESCO recommending that children be educated in their mother tongue and emphasising the importance of multilingual education, our country Greece continues to ignore our demand for bilingual minority kindergartens that will provide education in Turkish and Greek.” The United Nations (UN) Educational, Scienti...
Hearing of the claim for damages filed by ABTTF against newsbreak.gr news site
16.02.2023
The hearing of the claim for damages filed by ABTTF against newsbreak.gr, which made defamatory and fake news about the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF), was held in Athens on 16 February 2023. ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu was present with ABTTF’s lawyer at the hearing which was held at the Court of First Instance w...
ABTTF paid a working visit to Brussels
07.02.2023
President of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) Halit Habipoğlu paid a working visit to Brussels, the headquarters of the European Union (EU), on 7 February 2023. Accompanied by Deniz Servantie from the ABTTF Brussels Office, ABTTF President held meetings with Member of the European Parliament from the Hungarian minority in Ro...
Habip Oğlu met with the PACE President
25.01.2023
During the working visit held in parallel to the PACE Winter Session, ABTTF met with the PACE President Tiny Kox. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) paid a working visit to Strasbourg in parallel to the Ordinary Winter Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). During the working visit ...
Representatives of the Turkish community in Western Thrace are in Geneva for the UN Forum on Minority Issues
02.12.2022
At the Forum, which was held with the theme of the 30th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, ABTTF and WTMUGA expressed the issues of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and the Turks in Rhodes and Kos in the field of minority rights. The 15th Session...
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