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Habip Oğlu: Our country, Greece, is the only EU country that does not recognise national minorities
29.11.2023
ABTTF President: “Our country, which closely and carefully monitors the protection and development of the human and minority rights of the Greek minority in Albania, sees no harm in violating the rights of our community, which is under its responsibility, for years, and disregards the values of the EU of which it is a member. Our country is t...
The Council of Europe continues to closely monitor Greece for not executing the ECtHR judgments against it and regarding the associations of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
21.11.2023
ABTTF President: “If our country does not take a concrete step on the issue until the meeting in December, we ask the Committee of Ministers to consider initiating the infringement procedure against our country for not fulfilling its obligations arising from the treaty’’. Director of Human Rights of the Council of Europe Christ...
Double standards regarding the protection of human rights from our country Greece!
15.11.2023
ABTTF President: “We expect our country, which describes the imprisonment of the elected mayor of the Greek minority as a regression in human rights, to look in the mirror and show the same sensitivity for the Turkish community in Western Thrace as they are Greek citizens whose rights and freedoms have been systematically usurped for decades....
Stylianidis pursued his rhetoric that distorts the facts
06.10.2023
ABTTF President: “Everyone now knows that the claim by Stylianidis that the rights of our community are fully respected is not in accordance with the facts. Indeed, in our country, our Turkish identity is denied, our freedom of association is violated, our religious leaders elected by our community are not recognised by the government, our au...
Will the current positive climate in relations between Türkiye and Greece reflect to the Turkish community in Western Thrace?
21.09.2023
ABTTF President: “We expect the same good will and intent from our country in solving the issues of the Turkish community in Western Thrace, and we demand that our country’s rulers act sincerely and establish a direct dialogue with us to solve our issues’’. The President of our motherland, the Republic of Türki...
Statement from our country’s former President Pavlopoulos that distorts the facts again
13.09.2023
ABTTF President: “While our autonomous primary schools in Western Thrace are closed one by one and their numbers are decreasing every year, in our motherland, only in Gökçeada, 4 primary schools for children belonging to the Greek Orthodox minority were opened in 2013, and a secondary school and high school were opened in 2015.&rd...
Minister of Foreign Affairs Gerapetritis: “Members of minorities in Greece enjoy equal rights’’
06.09.2023
ABTTF President: “The statement of our country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gerapetritis, that the members of the Turkish community in Western Thrace enjoy equal rights, is inconsistent with the facts. Despite all the warnings of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, our country, which has closed our associations with t...
BTTDD Chair Hasan Küçük was not allowed to enter Greece
16.08.2023
ABTTF President: “A person’s freedom of travel cannot be obstructed; this right is a human right. However, this is not the first time, we have witnessed many times in the past that our friends representing the Turkish community in Western Thrace were not allowed to enter Greece. Today we see that nothing has changed. The ban on entry in...
An opportunity for change for the new government!
09.08.2023
ABTTF President: “Indeed, as Mitsotakis’ father implemented the policy of isonomia-isopolitia, that is, equality before the law and equal citizenship, may be the son Mitsotakis would talk about change as the government! However, the government must first show its goodwill towards our community, and this would be implementation of the EC...
Another criticism of our country’s distorted perspective!
04.08.2023
ABTTF President: “Our country, which claims that only Greeks or Greek Muslims live in Western Thrace, denies the existence of the Turkish community in Western Thrace living in these lands for centuries and our Turkish identity; and defines us as Greek Muslims.” Georgios Papahristos, one of the famous writers and journalists of ...
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