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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...
There is still no Muslim cemetery in Athens
08.10.2021
ABTTF President: ‘Reminding our country Greece of its obligations in the field of freedom of religion and worship, we invite the Greek authorities to respond positively immediately to the requests of Western Thrace Turks living in Thessaloniki for mosques and cemeteries’. There is still no Muslim cemetery in Greece’s capital At...
Greece’s test with ECtHR case-law
29.09.2021
ABTTF President: “Our country’s former Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos somehow does not mention the ECtHR judgments regarding the Western Thrace Turkish associations. As Venizelos knows very well, our country is obliged to fully comply with ECtHR case-law and cannot make a choice insofar as I decide to execute this ECtHR judge...
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe called upon Greece to urgently execute the ECtHR judgments
17.09.2021
ABTTF President: ‘Due to the fact that our country has not executed the ECtHR judgments regarding the Bekir-Ousta and Others Group of Cases for the past 13 years and ignores the ECtHR case-law, we ask the Committee of Ministers to initiate the infringement procedure against our country in accordance with Article 46 of the ECHR in its next rev...
Petition from Amnesty International
08.09.2021
Amnesty International launched a petition to be sent to Minister of Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarachi with the slogan ‘Stop pushing back, say ‘no’ to impunity! Take action now!’ Amnesty International is organising a petition to be delivered to Minister of Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarachi, saying that pushing back m...
Racist attack on refugees’ homes in Crete
16.08.2021
ABTTF President: ‘Given the huge wave of migration from Afghanistan, and in the event that a sound immigration and asylum policy is not implemented, the likelihood that racist attacks such as the one that took place in Crete are perpetrated in other parts of the country will only increase’ A racist attack was carried out on refugees ...
Evripidis Stylianidis: ‘Where there’s even one Greek, there’s all of Greece’
09.08.2021
ABTTF President: ‘If Stylianidis says that every Greek person living in different countries represents the whole of the Greek nation and culture, how come he continues to impose the term ‘Muslim Minority’ by referring to the Treaty of Lausanne and denies the ethnic Turkish identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace living...
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