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The Deputy Director of Education of the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace ignored the educational autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
25.04.2024
ABTTF President: “It is our country that does not comply with the treaties by violating our educational autonomy, which was guaranteed by the Treaty of Lausanne and functioned well from 1923 to 1977, with unilateral laws and practices! If our country restores our educational autonomy, all existing issues will be solved by themselves.’&r...
Western Thrace Turkish delegation at the OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting
23.04.2024
The Western Thrace Turkish delegation, consisting of ABTTF and WTMUGA, pointed out that, as an important indicator of the rule of law, the ECtHR judgments regarding the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases have not been executed for the past 16 years and that the organisations and leading representatives of the Turkish community in Western Thrace ...
ABTTF paid a working visit to Strasbourg
17.04.2024
During the working visit held parallel to the PACE Spring Plenary Session, ABTTF President met with the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) paid a working visit to Strasbourg on 15-17 April 2024, in parallel with the Spring Plenary Session of the Parliamentary Assembly ...
Prime Minister Mitsotakis: “We take the recommendations in the annual report on the rule of law very seriously”
16.04.2024
ABTTF President: “Our country continues to violate our community’s freedom of association by persistently not executing the judgments regarding our three associations in the Bekir-Ousta and Others Group of Cases of the European Court of Human Rights for the past 16 years. Our country must prove that it fully respects the principle of th...
ABTTF attended the 6th annual meeting of FUEN’s Education Working Group
10.04.2024
The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) attended the 6th Annual Meeting of the Education Working Group of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), of which it is a full member which was held in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, on 9-10 April 2024. Deniz Servantie from ABTTF Brussels Office attended the meeting titled &ls...
Minister for Health Georgiadis: “The EP’s resolution on the rule of law is full of lies”
10.04.2024
ABTTF President: “The most striking example of the systematic violation of the rule of law and the politicisation of the higher judiciary in our country is that our country has ignored the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights regarding the associations of our community and has not executed them for the past 16 years. ‘The gov...
Androulakis: “We and our children deserve to live in a European country where human rights are universally respected.”
09.04.2024
ABTTF President: “Our children, who belong to our community whose existence is denied in our country, are deprived of the right to learn their native language, Turkish, which is one of the most basic human rights. We want Androulakis to see the injustices that our children in our community suffer in the field of education and encourage the go...
ABTTF President met with Chairperson of the German National Delegation to PACE Frank Schwabe
04.04.2024
President of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) Halit Habip Oğlu met with Frank Schwabe, Chairperson of the German National Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), who is also a Member of the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag), on 4 April 2024. The meeting took place at Schwabe’s cons...
Report from non-governmental organisations in Greece to the European Commission on the gradual deterioration of the rule of law in the country
04.04.2024
ABTTF President: “Now someone’s true colours have been shown! The government must take into account the warnings and criticisms coming from within the country and from Europe regarding this negative situation regarding the rule of law, which has seriously damaged our country’s reputation in the international arena, and as an old m...
Statements from Stylianidis regarding education
03.04.2024
ABTTF President: “We hope and would like Stylianidis, who is also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, to refer to the issues our community is faced with in the field of education in his speeches and statements as a Member of Parliament of our region and to convince the government in resolving these issues’&r...
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