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Deputy Minister of Education visits schools belonging to the Greek Orthodox minority in Gökçeada (Imbros)
10.06.2022
ABTTF President: “Although our population is much larger than the Greek Orthodox minority living in Gökçeada (Imbros), we do not have a single kindergarten in Western Thrace. Our country has been ignoring our bilingual kindergarten demands for years. I wonder how the Deputy Minister will explain this situation?” Deputy Mi...
Treaty of Lausanne: Non-Muslim minority living in Istanbul, Gökçeada (Imbros) and Bozcaada (Tenedos)
08.06.2022
ABTTF President: “Tsihlis, who is a lawyer, knows very well that the Treaty of Lausanne contains only and exclusively the term ‘non-Muslim minorities’. If Tsihlis says that the minority in Istanbul is a Greek minority, he should also say that we that are living in Western Thrace are a Turkish minority. Otherwise, he does not respe...
The Department of State of the United States published the Greece 2021 Report on International Religious Freedom
07.06.2022
ABTTF President: “The report, which partially included the problems and criticisms of the Turkish community in Western Thrace in the field of religion, is of a nature of supporting our country’s official thesis as previously and has shown a biased approach. As ABTTF, we will prepare a parallel report detailing the issues of the Turkish ...
Greece responds to the letters on the investigation into the Xanthi Turkish Union's march
07.06.2022
ABTTF President: “The fact that an investigation was launched 7 months after the protest by the Xanthi Turkish Union and that the President of the Xanthi Turkish Union testified with the allegation of threats to public order and spreading fake news due to his speech at the march, beyond the alleged violation of COVID-19 measures in this inves...
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...
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