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Our country, which protects the Greek minority in Albania, continues to deny the Turkish community in Western Thrace!
05.06.2025
ABTTF President: “Greece, which has been a member of the EU since 1981 and defines itself as the cradle of democracy, is not content with denying the ethnic Turkish identity of our Turkish community in Western Thrace; it is dissolving our associations and restricting our freedoms. Greece must urgently recognise the Turkish community in Wester...
Minister for Foreign Affairs Gerapetritis: Europe must uphold human rights and the rule of law
27.05.2025
ABTTF President: “As a member of the Council of Europe, is our country disregarding the rule of law by failing to execute the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights concerning our civil society organisations for the past 17 years, thereby failing to fulfil its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights? Our country mus...
International organisations harshly criticise Greece on human rights and the rule of law
13.05.2025
ABTTF President: “As emphasised in the reports in question, following the legal scandals that have taken place in our country in recent years, the vast majority of citizens no longer trust either the government or the judiciary. As the Turkish community in Western Thrace, we too have lost all trust in our country’s judiciary. How could ...
Deputy Minister Gkikas spoke at the General Assembly of Bar Association Presidents in Corfu
07.05.2025
ABTTF President: “Let’s be honest! In our country, the rule of law and trust in the judiciary have declined. Unfortunately, as the Turkish community in Western Thrace, we have lost all trust in the judiciary! We have been waiting for 17 years for the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgments to be executed in the Bekir-Ousta grou...
Our country Greece continues to ignore the rights violations and discrimination that the Turkish community in Western Thrace is subjected to by distorting the facts
15.04.2025
ABTTF President: “Our country claims that our community has full equality and equal rights as Greek citizens, but for 17 years it has persistently failed to execute the ECtHR judgments regarding our associations, including the Xanthi Turkish Union, and flagrantly violates our freedom of association. We request our country to immediately put a...
One in four young people in Greece think that lack of trust in official institutions is one of the most serious threats to democracy in the EU
08.04.2025
ABTTF President: “Politicians and those in positions of responsibility and authority at both national and EU level must consider the serious concerns of youth about democracy and urgently take the necessary steps to change the current situation in a positive direction’’. Young people were asked for their views in a Eurobaromete...
Former Deputy Prime Minister Venizelos says Greece has serious issues with the rule of law
01.04.2025
ABTTF President: “The non-execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights regarding the associations of our community for the past 17 years is perhaps the most obvious example of the systematic violation of the rule of law and the politicisation of the law in our country. Our country, which is constantly playing for time in o...
The Justice Observatory draws attention to issues regarding the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law in Greece
28.03.2025
ABTTF President: “The rulers of our country should urgently take the necessary steps to protect and improve the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law, which are among the fundamental values of the European Union and should take into account the warnings and constructive criticism from the independent institutions and organisations...
The fact that our motherland expressed our issues before the UN caused discomfort in our country
27.02.2025
ABTTF President: “Contrary to what Kotsiras, the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of our country, claims, our educational and religious autonomy guaranteed by the Treaty of Lausanne has de facto disappeared nowadays as a result of various laws and unilateral practices over the years. While all these facts are obvious, we call on the rulers...
Our country Greece continues to deliberately distort the facts!
19.02.2025
ABTTF President: ‘When our motherland protects our community, which shares the same fate with the Greek Orthodox minority in accordance with the Treaty of Lausanne, and brings its issues to the forefront, for some reason our country perceives this as baseless and false news and provocation every time. As the Turkish community in Western Thrac...
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