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68% of people in Greece do not believe that the rule of law is upheld in the country
28.10.2024
ABTTF President: “How can the public have confidence in the government after the recent succession of legal scandals in our country? The government is using strategic lawsuits as a tool of intimidation for political purposes and is directly attacking the fundamental values of the EU. For years, prominent members of our community or associatio...
Minister of Foreign Affairs Gerapetritis: The first package of chapters opened for Albania should include the Greek ethnic minority
17.10.2024
ABTTF President: “The rulers of our country, who do not respect the rights of our community, who are Greek and EU citizens, and who have trampled on the rule of law in recent years, try to lecture other countries on similar issues as if these things never happen. Minority rights and the rule of law must be fully and completely respected not o...
What does Minister Dendias mean?
09.10.2024
ABTTF President: “We are as much Turks, Western Thrace Turks, as the non-Muslim minority in Istanbul, Bozcaada and Gökçeada are Greeks. Our existence, status and rights in the region are defined and guaranteed by the Treaty of Lausanne. They should perceive us as such and treat us accordingly, i.e. by recognising our Turkish exist...
Greece is the third worst country in the EU in terms of material and social deprivation
17.09.2024
ABTTF President: “Recognising that every individual has the right to an adequate standard of living for the health and well-being of himself and his family, the government should use all economic means at its disposal effectively and efficiently in the fight against poverty in our country and urgently implement development policies that will ...
Minister of Foreign Affairs Gerapetritis: Greece will continue to take a close interest in the ethnic Greek minority in Albania
03.09.2024
ABTTF President: “While Minister of Foreign Affairs Gerapetritis criticises Albania for not respecting the rule of law, we expect the same sensitivity for our community, which has been systematically discriminated and whose rights have been violated for decades in our country, a member of the EU since 1981. Before lecturing other countries on...
Greek Ombudsman drew attention to the violations of the rule of law in the country
28.08.2024
ABTTF President: “Despite the change of governments, our country has not executed the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases for more than 16 years. Consciously politicising these judgments and constantly playing for time despite all the warnings of the Committee of Ministers of the Counci...
Human rights and media freedom organisations criticise the European Commission’s Rule of Law Report on Greece
09.08.2024
Fourteen human rights and media freedom organisations issued a joint statement on the latest report with respect to the state of the rule of law in Greece published by the European Commission on 24 July 2024, indicating that the report misleads readers by ignoring the critical issues facing media freedom and civil society. The joint statement re...
ND MP Syrigos ignored the right of children belonging to the Turkish community in Western Thrace to education in their mother tongue
29.07.2024
ABTTF President: “While bilingual kindergartens can be opened and operate without any issues in other Member States of the European Union, the government in our country should consider and fulfil the demand of our community, both as citizens and voters, for bilingual kindergartens’’. In his speech at the Greek Parliament, New D...
Our motherland’s protection of the Turkish community in Western Thrace has again caused discomfort in our country
26.07.2024
ABTTF President: '‘Just as our country takes care of the Greek Orthodox minority in Albania and the Greek Orthodox minority in our homeland, just as the rulers of our country visit Greek schools during their visits to Istanbul and Gökçeada, it is natural and normal for the president of our motherland to take care of us by prot...
Katrinis: “The judiciary must be free and independent”
18.07.2024
ABTTF President: “For the past 16 years, our country has persistently failed to execute the three ECtHR judgments with respect to the associations of the Turkish community in Western Thrace, known as Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases. We once again call on our country to urgently execute the aforementioned ECtHR judgments and we request t...
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