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The tension between our country and our motherland once again brought forward the Treaty of Lausanne
03.06.2022
ABTTF President: “Our country insists on not fully implementing international law and the international treaties to which it is a party when it comes to the Turkish community.” The recent debate between our country Greece and our motherland Turkey regarding the Dodecanese Islands has once again brought forward the Lausanne Peace Trea...
Different approaches to the protection of cultural heritage between our country and our motherland
02.06.2022
ABTTF President: “Our country should immediately abandon its rejective approach towards the historical monuments remaining from the Ottoman Empire, which are a part of its cultural heritage, and should look after and protect them.” According to the news report from the Millet newspaper, Metropolitan of Xanthi Panteleimon recently vis...
Minister of Foreign Affairs Dendias continues to deny the facts
25.05.2022
ABTTF President: “The statement made by Dendias, which does not respect the diversity in our country and threatens to block the EU accession process of neighbouring Albania, does not suit our country, an old member of the EU built on democracy, human rights, the rule of law and fundamental freedoms’’. Greek Minister of Foreign ...
The US 2021 Human Rights Report on Greece released
18.04.2022
ABTTF President: ‘It is very disappointing that this year’s report has removed the heading on national/racial/ethnic minority groups and includes the issues of the Western Thrace Turks in only a few sentences as regards the fields of education, freedom of association and the religious authority of the Muftis’. The United ...
Letter from ABTTF on the final report of the Commission for the Development of Thrace
08.04.2022
ABTTF sent a letter to the Prime Minister, the Chairman of the Commission for the Development of Thrace, the political parties in Parliament, the relevant ministries and the Governor of the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, criticising the report, which contained limited and vague statements on how to solve issues related to the Minority, and...
Statements that distort the facts about the education issue of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
07.04.2022
ABTTF President: “Our young people from the Turkish community in Western Thrace have been forced to take additional private courses in primary and secondary education in order to succeed as a result of the state’s continuous interference with our educational autonomy for decades and the quality of minority education. Therefore, no one s...
Another biased report from the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs!
23.02.2022
ABTTF President: ‘As ABTTF, we follow not only the international reports but also the national reports. In all reports about our community, instead of others speaking for us, we will speak for ourselves’. The report of the Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs titled ‘Incidents in areas of religious importance in Gr...
Financial support from the European Commission to the agricultural producers in Greece
10.02.2022
ABTTF President: “We hope that the government will not discriminate against the Turkish community in Western Thrace, which makes its living largely from agriculture and especially tobacco production and does not exclude tobacco producers from our community in the distribution of the grant support.” The European Commission has approve...
Fairness should be the rule in the distribution of the different investment incentives envisaged by the New Development Law!
08.02.2022
ABTTF President: “We demand that all investment and development incentives to be provided to Western Thrace should be distributed in a fair and balanced way between the Turkish community and majority-owned companies. As we have emphasised in our concrete proposals submitted to the cross-party Commission for the Development of Thrace as ABTTF,...
Greece is continuing its measures which deny the “Turkish” identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
07.02.2022
ABTTF President: “The Greek state and its representative government thus revealed its main purpose by adding the option ‘Pomak’ which is not a religious belief into the registration form. The purpose is clear: To divide our community by imposing different identities on us. However, as Western Thrace Turks, we will not be duped, an...
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