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Wiretapping scandal shows the influence of the deep state in Greece in the country’s governance
11.08.2022
ABTTF President: ‘‘While in real democracies, national minorities are considered as a source of wealth within a multicultural and multilingual structure, in our country the issue of national minorities and of that of the Turkish community in Western Thrace is taboo and treated as a threat to national security and public order! For this ...
Our country continues to deliberately distort the facts!
08.08.2022
ABTTF President: “The statement made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a repetition of an approach that we are familiar with. That is to create a distorted reality by ignoring the facts! It is not true that the law on the modernisation of the Mufti offices was drafted after extensive consultation with representatives of the Turkish commun...
Greek MEP Kefalogiannis’ written question as regards the Treaty of Lausanne
03.08.2022
ABTTF President: “In our opinion, it is Kefalogiannis himself who misreads and interprets Lausanne. For this, it will be sufficient for the Turkish community in Western Thrace to examine the practices in our region within the framework of the status and rights it had with Lausanne in the period from 1923 to the period of the Colonels’ J...
Greek MEP Kefalogiannis again ignored the ethnic identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace in his question to the European Commission
28.07.2022
ABTTF President: “Kefalogiannis claims that there is a Muslim minority in Thrace, while Istanbul, Gökçeada (Imbros) and Bozcaada (Tenedos) have Greek national minorities according to Lausanne. Kefalogiannis cannot not have known that the Treaty of Lausanne contains the phrase ‘non-Muslim minorities’. If he says that th...
Contradictory statement from Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Alexandros Papaioannou
27.07.2022
ABTTF President: “Is our country closing our schools due to the low number of students in the Turkish primary schools in our region based on the implementation throughout Greece, or is it abusing the principle of reciprocity and looking for an excuse to close our primary schools in our region due to the low number of primary schools of the Or...
Our religious autonomy will be officially abolished under the claim of modernising our mufti offices
26.07.2022
ABTTF President: “With this draft law, the institution of the Mufti office, which is managed by the Minority with its own resources, will be completely abolished, and the mufti offices will be turned into state offices under the control and direction of the state in terms of their organisational structure and functioning. It is not possible...
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child published its concluding observations regarding Greece
17.06.2022
The United Nations (UN) Committee on the Rights of the Child published its concluding observations on our country Greece, which it examined at its 90th session between 3 May and 3 June 2022. In the concluding observations, which include recommendations for our country, which is a party to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, it is noted...
Greek diplomatic sources misread Lausanne, draw a wrong parallel!
16.06.2022
ABTTF President: “According to Lausanne, the Muslim minority in our country and the non-Muslim minority in Turkey enjoy autonomous status in education and religion! The way muftis are chosen or appointed in Turkey cannot be rightfully compared with the Turkish community in Western Thrace. If we take Lausanne as a basis, both the patriarch and...
Another warning from the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to our country Greece!
13.06.2022
ABTTF President: “The Committee of Ministers warns our country that it is ready to take new actions if it does not take any concrete steps by December, but no matter how much it is warned, our country does not intend to execute the ECtHR judgments in this group of cases. From now on, the Committee of Ministers should accept this fact and be c...
Deputy Minister of Education visits schools belonging to the Greek Orthodox minority in Gökçeada (Imbros)
10.06.2022
ABTTF President: “Although our population is much larger than the Greek Orthodox minority living in Gökçeada (Imbros), we do not have a single kindergarten in Western Thrace. Our country has been ignoring our bilingual kindergarten demands for years. I wonder how the Deputy Minister will explain this situation?” Deputy Mi...
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