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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 ...
On the 100th anniversary of Lausanne, the permanent anti-minority policy of the Greek state is in the Prin newspaper!
27.07.2023
ABTTF President: “The government should take a real and sincere step to change the state policy that ignores, marginalizes and demonizes Turkish community on the 100th anniversary of Lausanne. The government should first implement immediately, with no excuses, the ECtHR judgments, which we have been waiting for 15 years to be implemented. The...
Prime Minister Mitsotakis continues his habit of distorting the facts by denying again the identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
11.07.2023
ABTTF President: “We no longer want to hear empty words from our Prime Minister that distorts the facts, and we want our usurped rights to be restored immediately and the principle of equality before the law to be implemented in practice.” Our country Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis also referred to the Turkish comm...
The Turkish community in Western Thrace will be represented by four deputies in the Greek Parliament in the new legislative period
29.06.2023
ABTTF President: “We demand that the ND government, which has taken office, learn from the mistakes it has made in the last four years and deal with the issues of our community sincerely, and consult with us by establishing a one-to-one dialogue from the very beginning on the reforms it will carry out on matters directly related to us’&...
Bakoyannis continues her unfounded claims regarding the Turkish community in Western Thrace
21.06.2023
ABTTF President: “Bakoyannis continues to use us as the tool of her party’s election campaign by targeting our community again and making baseless accusations. The statements of Bakoyannis and other high-level politicians of our country that marginalise our community and disregard its free will also seriously damage the international re...
Our country continues to distort the facts about the Turkish community in Western Thrace
14.06.2023
ABTTF President: “A systematic discriminatory policy is being implemented against us in our country. Is this the development of the ‘‘Muslim minority in Thrace’’? Whatever the language it is said in, the facts are clear!” At the conference organised by National and Kapodistrian University and the Hellenic Foun...
Dora Bakoyannis insulted the free will of the voters before the 25 June elections!
12.06.2023
ABTTF President: “Dora Bakoyannis, who has a strong name in the political arena in Europe, gave a speech, so to speak, showing a stick out of gold! We could not ascribe this statement to her at all, because the language of veiled threat is an open insult to the free will of the voters!’’ Dora Bakoyannis, one of the leading figu...
We demand an ethnicity choice in the census to prove our presence in Greece
09.06.2023
ABTTF President: “As a community, we have clearly felt the negative consequences of the party policy of ND, which denies our existence and our Turkish identity, in the last four years that they have been in power. As Western Thrace Turks, we demand that the ethnic origin be accounted for in the census in our country, and we call on our countr...
The free will and democratic choice of the Turkish community in Western Thrace are ignored
05.06.2023
ABTTF President: “ND or anyone else must first learn to respect the will of the people! Otherwise, political attitudes and discourses that marginalise and target the Turkish community in Western Thrace will harm our country’s democracy, as it is today.” In an interview with Proto Thema on 3 June 2023, former Prime Minister of G...
News and statements targeting the Turkish community in Western Thrace after the general elections
30.05.2023
ABTTF President: “We constitute the majority of the population in the prefecture of Rodopi, naturally the Turkish candidate gets the most votes. It is quite normal for the Greek candidate to get the second most votes and a candidate from us to get the third most votes. Our community, of its own free will, went to the polls on 21 May and cast ...
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