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Prime Minister Mitsotakis paid an official visit to Ankara
12.02.2026
ABTTF President: “As the Turkish community in Western Thrace, we too wish to act as a bridge between our country and our motherland, but unfortunately this is not possible due to the perception of an “enemy within” created by the state targeting our community in our country. We want the government to develop a sincere, honest and ...
Human Rights Watch has drawn attention to the decline in the rule of law in Greece
06.02.2026
ABTTF President: “Our country should take into account the justified and constructive criticism regarding the state of democracy, human rights and the rule of law in the reports of the supranational organisations and international civil society organisations of which it is a member, and should take the necessary steps without delay to counter...
The only official mosque in Athens, where thousands of Muslims live, fails to meet the demand for collective worship
04.02.2026
ABTTF President: “We call upon our country, one of the oldest members of the European Union, which constantly claims to be the cradle of democracy, to honour its obligations in this area by addressing the needs of collective worship of thousands of Muslims living in Athens and Thessaloniki, showing full respect for freedom of religion and wor...
Prime Minister Mitsotakis: The UN Charter and the principles of international law must always be respected
13.01.2026
ABTTF President: “In our country, which ranks among the lowest in Europe in terms of the rule of law index, the overwhelming majority of the population does not trust the government or the national parliament. We, the Turkish community in Western Thrace, have been facing the consequences of this negative situation in our country for years, a ...
The vast majority of the Greek people do not trust the national parliament or the government
09.01.2026
ABTTF President: “The fact that four-fifths of the public do not trust the legislature and the executive branch is a very serious warning to the political establishment in our country, particularly the government. The successive legal and corruption scandals have naturally led to this outcome. The government must take the public’s conce...
Two ministers in the cabinet make scandalous statements about international law
29.12.2025
ABTTF President: “If international law is disregarded and replaced by a legal order shaped by the ruling power, all segments of the country will be negatively affected, especially vulnerable groups. We have seen this before, and we are experiencing it now. The fundamental reason behind the 18-year non-execution of the ECtHR judgments in the B...
MEP Arvanitis highlighted the serious deterioration in the rule of law in Greece
23.12.2025
ABTTF President: “Our country has failed to execute three judgments issued by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) regarding our associations in the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases for almost 18 years. The Court of Cassation (Arios Pagos), our country’s highest judicial body, which rejected the appeals of our three associati...
Minister of Foreign Affairs Gerapetritis: The protection of the rights of the Greek national minority in Albania is a priority issue for Greece
17.12.2025
ABTTF President: “Whenever our motherland, Türkiye, expresses the same demand for the rights of the Turkish community in Western Thrace, our country’s rulers and media portray it as an interference in its internal affairs, a defiance from our motherland. We witnessed this once again in the reactions from our country to the statemen...
The 25th anniversary of the adoption of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights comes amid concerns over a serious decline in the rule of law in Greece
09.12.2025
ABTTF President: “In Greece, one of the EU’s founding members and a country that constantly claims to be the cradle of democracy, the principle of the rule of law, one of the EU’s most fundamental values, is literally being trampled underfoot. The failure to execute the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights concerning th...
Our country’s rulers persist in distorting the facts
25.11.2025
ABTTF President: ‘‘The statements made by Marinakis perfectly reflects the policy of our country’s rulers, which we have been familiar with for years, of hiding the facts about the state of the rule of law and ignoring the problems. As the Turkish community in Western Thrace, we know very well this policy and attitude. Our country...
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