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ABTTF written opinion regarding the Greece section of Amnesty International’s annual report
11.05.2023
ABTTF President: “In our written opinion prepared as ABTTF, we conveyed the issues of our community and the discrimination it is exposed to and demanded that the organisation also focus on minority rights in next year’s reports. Indeed, minority rights are an integral part of human rights’’. The Federation of Western Thra...
Our video about the voting of Western Thrace Turks is on the air!
03.05.2023
The video prepared by the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) about the election system in the general elections which will be held in Greece on 21 May 2023 is now online! Let’s be in our region on 21 May, take care of our vote and our future! The video released by ABTTF on its YouTube channel and Fac...
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...
Western Thrace Turkish business people and cooperative representatives and Turkish supermarket chains operating in Berlin gathered together
25.04.2023
ABTTF President: “The Turkish community in Western Thrace in our region is a community based on agriculture, but due to the structural issues in our region, especially after the financial and financial crisis, migration has increased considerably. For this reason, we think that employment should be increased by enhancing production in our reg...
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...
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