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President of the Plenary of the Greek Bar Associations Vervesos: Recent judgments of the European Court of Human Rights constitute a big warning for Greece
07.02.2025
ABTTF President: “The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe should immediately initiate the infringement procedure against our country, which persistently and deliberately fails to fulfil its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, without further delay. Indeed, every day lost means further damage to democracy and...
Human Rights Watch: The issues of democracy, human rights and the rule of law in Greece due to state actions are very serious
23.01.2025
ABTTF President: “Our country is moving further away from being a country that is free, democratic and fully committed to the rule of law. In face of this worrying situation, both our country and international organisations should take the reports of international organisations seriously and take the necessary steps.” Human Rights Wa...
Our country Greece has once again denied the issues of the Turkish community in Western Thrace!
14.01.2025
ABTTF President: “The ruling New Democracy nominates a member of the Greek minority in Albania, who is both an Albanian and a Greek citizen, as a candidate in the elections to the European Parliament from its own list, and this person is eventually elected, but for some reason, our motherland’s support for us is always met with a negati...
Greece ranks first in cost of living and last in the protection of human rights!
10.01.2025
ABTTF President: “One of the most obvious examples of our country’s systematic violation of freedom of association, one of the most fundamental human rights, and its disregard for international law is undoubtedly the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights regarding three associations of our community, which it has not executed ...
Our country treats its own minority as stepchildren
05.12.2024
ABTTF President: “Our country, which has been a member of the EU since 1981, calls on Albania, which is in the process of EU accession, to fully respect the rights of the Greek minority within its borders, but denies the Turkish national identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace, all members of which are both Greek and EU citizens, ...
Ottoman-Turkish hammam in Nafplio to be restored
22.11.2024
ABTTF President: “We hope that these positive steps will be continued and other Ottoman-Turkish monuments in our country, such as the hammam in Napflio, which are idle and dilapidated, will be restored as soon as possible. Indeed, all these monuments are part of the common cultural heritage of our country and our homeland as well as the world...
Former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras meets UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
20.11.2024
ABTTF President: “We lived together in these lands for centuries, and after the borders were drawn after the wars, we were granted our status and rights as a minority in these lands. However, the state did not respect this, and gradually took away this autonomy. Indeed, we have never been accepted as the Turkish community in our own country, ...
Hundreds of complaints against Greece at the ECtHR!
12.11.2024
ABTTF President: “For more than 16 years, our country has been ignoring its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, to which it is a party, by not executing the ECtHR’s judgements with respect to three of our associations in violation of the freedom of association of our community. The Committee of Ministers of the Co...
The UN Human Rights Committee published the concluding observations on Greece’s country report
11.11.2024
The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee published its concluding observations on the 3rd periodic country report submitted by Greece, which it examined at its 142nd session held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 14 October-7 November 2024. In its concluding observations, which include recommendations for Greece as a party to the UN International...
Greece’s judicial system is slow
30.10.2024
ABTTF President: ‘‘Recently, the judicial system in our country has been under the influence of politics more than ever and legal cases related to fundamental rights and freedoms are politicised. The most obvious example of this is that our country has not executed the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights with respect to thre...
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