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Financial support from the European Commission to the agricultural producers in Greece
10.02.2022
ABTTF President: “We hope that the government will not discriminate against the Turkish community in Western Thrace, which makes its living largely from agriculture and especially tobacco production and does not exclude tobacco producers from our community in the distribution of the grant support.” The European Commission has approve...
Fairness should be the rule in the distribution of the different investment incentives envisaged by the New Development Law!
08.02.2022
ABTTF President: “We demand that all investment and development incentives to be provided to Western Thrace should be distributed in a fair and balanced way between the Turkish community and majority-owned companies. As we have emphasised in our concrete proposals submitted to the cross-party Commission for the Development of Thrace as ABTTF,...
Greece is continuing its measures which deny the “Turkish” identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
07.02.2022
ABTTF President: “The Greek state and its representative government thus revealed its main purpose by adding the option ‘Pomak’ which is not a religious belief into the registration form. The purpose is clear: To divide our community by imposing different identities on us. However, as Western Thrace Turks, we will not be duped, an...
Visit of Greek Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andreas Katsaniotis to Imbros (Gökçeada)
02.02.2022
ABTTF President: ‘This visit by Katsaniotis is a very natural act and has been welcomed as it should be. I would like to ask Katsaniotis whom stated that our country Greece supports the Treaty of Lausanne and that they will remind Turkey of its commitments. Just like the visit he realised, when officials from our motherland Turkey visit Weste...
Stylianidis: “Turkey should treat the Greeks in Istanbul, Imbros (Gökçeada) and Tenedos (Bozcaada) the same way as we treat Muslims in Thrace”
26.01.2022
ABTTF President: “Do you really want Turkey to treat the Greeks in Istanbul, Imbros (Gökçeada) and Tenedos (Bozcaada) the way you treat us?” Speaking at the “THRACE- Past, Present and Future” event of the American Legion in Athens on 19 January 2022, Rodopi Province New Democracy MP Evripidis Stylianidis claim...
An attack was perpetrated to a masjid in Athens with an improvised explosive device
24.01.2022
ABTTF President: ‘This attack, which targeted the Muslim community of about 500,000 people in Athens, poses a clear threat to social peace and tranquillity. The authorities of our country should conduct the investigation with great care, identify the perpetrators and punish them before the judiciary as they deserve. This is our clear demand f...
Those who rule Greece continue to ignore the rights abuses suffered by the Turkish community in Western Thrace for years
17.01.2022
ABTTF President: “While our country has hijacked our educational autonomy with unilateral policies and practices over the years, closed our primary schools one by one every year on grounds of lack of students and ignored our request for bilingual minority kindergartens, our motherland has opened schools even for only four students in Imbros (...
Hate crimes targeting the Turkish community in Western Thrace included within the OSCE 2020 Hate Crimes Report
16.11.2021
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) published the 2020 Hate Crimes Report. The section related to Greece in the report, which includes information on hate crime incidents in states in the OSCE region and statistics on them, also includes hate motivated attacks and...
The Turkish community in Western Thrace demands full respect for its freedom of religion
08.11.2021
ABTTF President: ‘Following the decision of the Council of State, it has emerged that there is a need for the Parliament to update the 1981 law or to enact a new law which would allow the sacrificial rites in accordance to religious duties and which would fully respect the freedom of religion of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and the...
Greece among the ten countries with the most complaints against it at the ECtHR
04.11.2021
ABTTF President: “As the judge from our country at the ECtHR, Ioannis Ktistakis, made it clear, our country should execute immediately ECtHR judgments against it as regards the Bekir-Ousta and Others Group of Cases where Western Thrace Turkish associations are included and thus end a 13-year long weakness for itself.” The Europ...
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