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Greece’s test with ECtHR case-law
29.09.2021
ABTTF President: “Our country’s former Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos somehow does not mention the ECtHR judgments regarding the Western Thrace Turkish associations. As Venizelos knows very well, our country is obliged to fully comply with ECtHR case-law and cannot make a choice insofar as I decide to execute this ECtHR judge...
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe called upon Greece to urgently execute the ECtHR judgments
17.09.2021
ABTTF President: ‘Due to the fact that our country has not executed the ECtHR judgments regarding the Bekir-Ousta and Others Group of Cases for the past 13 years and ignores the ECtHR case-law, we ask the Committee of Ministers to initiate the infringement procedure against our country in accordance with Article 46 of the ECHR in its next rev...
Petition from Amnesty International
08.09.2021
Amnesty International launched a petition to be sent to Minister of Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarachi with the slogan ‘Stop pushing back, say ‘no’ to impunity! Take action now!’ Amnesty International is organising a petition to be delivered to Minister of Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarachi, saying that pushing back m...
Racist attack on refugees’ homes in Crete
16.08.2021
ABTTF President: ‘Given the huge wave of migration from Afghanistan, and in the event that a sound immigration and asylum policy is not implemented, the likelihood that racist attacks such as the one that took place in Crete are perpetrated in other parts of the country will only increase’ A racist attack was carried out on refugees ...
Evripidis Stylianidis: ‘Where there’s even one Greek, there’s all of Greece’
09.08.2021
ABTTF President: ‘If Stylianidis says that every Greek person living in different countries represents the whole of the Greek nation and culture, how come he continues to impose the term ‘Muslim Minority’ by referring to the Treaty of Lausanne and denies the ethnic Turkish identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace living...
The foundation estate belonging to the Turkish community in Kos has been put up for sale by the appointed Charitable Foundation Administration!
02.08.2021
ABTTF President: ‘We request this sale which is in violation of the legislation on the foundation adminstration to be stopped and demand that the administration of the foundations in Rhodes and Kos take office through elections and not by appointment’. In the Dodecanese region of our country Greece and on the island of Kos, the...
A new blow to the educational autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace!
30.07.2021
ABTTF President: ‘Our country Greece continues its unilateral policies and practices aimed at completely eliminating our educational autonomy. A discriminatory law submitted and adopted by the Ministry of Education to the Parliament is the latest example of this and we demand that the law be amended to include the Western Thrace Turkish...
While our country Greece celebrates the anniversary of the restoration of democracy, repressive policies towards the Turkish community in Western Thrace continue
27.07.2021
ABTTF President: “It is evident that the values of liberal democracy in our country do not apply to the Turkish community in Western Thrace through the rights violations and discrimination which has increased and that we have faced since that time and the years after.” Our country Greece celebrated the 47th anniversary of the restora...
Official visit of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey to Athens
01.06.2021
ABTTF President: “We hope that the positive mood following the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of our motherland and our country in Athens will lead to the establishment of a dialogue mechanism between the official authorities of our country and the Turkish community in Western Thrace.” Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of...
The US 2020 Report on International Religious Freedom released
19.05.2021
ABTTF President: “In the section on Greece of the report, we see that the problems experienced by the Turkish community in Western Thrace in the religious sphere are again partially included. By preparing a parallel report as we have done in the past years, we will detail the issues and demands of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and s...
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