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MeRA25 introduced the party programme on the minority policy towards the Turkish community in Western Thrace with a Turkish brochure
27.02.2023
ABTTF President: “The problems of our community and our rightful demands for the solution of our issues have been taken into account with such clear expressions for the first time by a political party represented in the national assembly. I hope the rulers of our country will get the necessary messages from this exemplary step of MeRA25.&rdqu...
Former president of our country Pavlopoulos once again ignored the problems of our community
14.02.2023
ABTTF President: “Former and current rulers of our country should be sincere and constructive in solving the issues of our community and should avoid populist rhetoric that does not benefit anyone.” Speaking at the conference titled ‘‘The 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Lausanne (1923-2023) and religious minorit...
Statement by SYRIZA Deputy Katrougalos on the right of members of the Turkish community in Western Thrace to define themselves
01.02.2023
ABTTF President: “I call on Katrougalos, as the SYRIZA Party, to make an effort to put the signboards of our three closed associations back in place if they win the elections and come to power, and put their rhetoric into action.” Head of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the main opposition party in our country Greece, Coalition ...
Objection to the recognition of the Centre for the Macedonian Language by the Florina Prosecutor!
10.01.2023
ABTTF President: “We always say that in our country, which prides itself on being the cradle of democracy, democracy is practically in the hands of a mindset that is highly distorted, ruled by prejudices and stereotypes!” Politicians and members of the judiciary continue to object to the recognition of the ‘‘Centre ...
Another distorted interpretation of the Treaty of Lausanne from former Greek President Pavlopoulos
21.12.2022
ABTTF President: ‘‘Our country, as it claims, does not fulfil the educational and religious autonomy of the Muslim minority, which it defines as a religious minority, arising from Lausanne. Indeed, because of the laws enacted by the state over time, our educational and religious autonomy has been taken from us to a large extent, and we ...
National and Religious Issues Foundation: ‘‘The majority of the Minority in Thrace were Pomaks who were converted to Islam by force during the Ottoman period!’’
20.12.2022
ABTTF President: “Now, the claim that the majority of the ‘Minority in Thrace’ is composed of Pomaks who were converted to Islam by force in the early Ottoman period’ has come to the forefront! So why do we always say that we are Turkish, why? It seems that our country is in such a stalemate that it is now trying to go back ...
Our ‘‘Turkish’’ identity is denied in our country
15.12.2022
ABTTF President: “No matter how much our country denies it, we are ‘Turks’ and we have been living with our ‘Turkish’ identity in Western Thrace for centuries. Just like Albanian citizens of Greek origin living in Albania, we are Greek citizens of Turkish origin.” Ambassador of our country Greece in Tirana Kon...
Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of our country that distorts the facts about the Turkish community in Western Thrace
13.12.2022
ABTTF President: “Our country does not allow our associations bearing the word ‘‘Turkish’’, closes our autonomous primary schools, does not recognise our elected muftis. Is this what it means to be a European country with a modern democracy? Is this to pursue a modern European minority policy?” In its statem...
The Committee of Ministers will send a letter to Greece which has not executed the ECtHR judgments in the Bekir-Ousta Group of Cases for the past 15 years
09.12.2022
ABTTF President: “In its decision taken at its meeting in Strasbourg, the Committee of Ministers went one step further and decided that the Chair of the Committee should send a letter to the Greek authorities as the Committee of Ministers also saw that our country did not intend to execute the three judgments with respect to the Bekir-Ousta G...
According to Lausanne, there cannot be a Muslim minority in Greece and a Greek Orthodox minority in Turkey!
07.12.2022
ABTTF President: “Stathis does not say that in the past, the state itself used the definition of ‘Turkish Minority’ for us, that it had written ‘Turkish primary schools’ in Turkish and Greek on our schools. Stathis does not say that the number of our primary schools has dropped from 231 to 99 in the last 25 years.&rdqu...
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