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ABTTF was in Geneva for the UN Forum on Minority Issues
29.11.2024
Representatives of the Turkish community in Western Thrace raised the issues in the field of education, which has a great impact on the future of the Turkish community in Western Thrace, in the session on the representation of minorities in education. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) participated in the 17th Sessio...
The statements of Minister of Foreign Affairs Fidan supporting the Turkish community in Western Thrace caused disturbance in our country
27.11.2024
ABTTF President: “Just as our country takes care of the Greek minority in Albania, protects their rights and negotiates with Albania for the protection and development of their rights, our motherland does the same for us.” Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye Hakan Fidan referred to the Turkish community in Wes...
Ottoman-Turkish hammam in Nafplio to be restored
22.11.2024
ABTTF President: “We hope that these positive steps will be continued and other Ottoman-Turkish monuments in our country, such as the hammam in Napflio, which are idle and dilapidated, will be restored as soon as possible. Indeed, all these monuments are part of the common cultural heritage of our country and our homeland as well as the world...
Stylianidis emphasised the importance of protecting human rights in the age of artificial intelligence
21.11.2024
ABTTF President: “Stylianidis, the MP from our region, who has expressed his sensitivity on this issue in the relevant committee of PACE, refrains from showing the same sensitivity before PACE when it comes to our community whose freedom of association has been violated for more than 16 years, and as a jurist, he does not intervene against th...
Former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras meets UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
20.11.2024
ABTTF President: “We lived together in these lands for centuries, and after the borders were drawn after the wars, we were granted our status and rights as a minority in these lands. However, the state did not respect this, and gradually took away this autonomy. Indeed, we have never been accepted as the Turkish community in our own country, ...
OSCE 2023 Hate Crime Report was published
15.11.2024
The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) published its 2023 Hate Crime Report ahead of the International Day for Tolerance on 16 November. The report, which includes statistical and descriptive information on hate crime incidents in states in the OSCE region, ...
Hundreds of complaints against Greece at the ECtHR!
12.11.2024
ABTTF President: “For more than 16 years, our country has been ignoring its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, to which it is a party, by not executing the ECtHR’s judgements with respect to three of our associations in violation of the freedom of association of our community. The Committee of Ministers of the Co...
The UN Human Rights Committee published the concluding observations on Greece’s country report
11.11.2024
The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee published its concluding observations on the 3rd periodic country report submitted by Greece, which it examined at its 142nd session held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 14 October-7 November 2024. In its concluding observations, which include recommendations for Greece as a party to the UN International...
Western Thrace Turks attended the 10th Annual Meeting of FUEN TAG
04.11.2024
The Western Thrace Turkish delegation consisting of ABTTTF, WTMUGA and FEP Party and their representatives conveyed the current developments related to the Turkish community in Western Thrace during the meeting. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF), Western Thrace Minority University Graduates Association (WTMUGA) and F...
FUEN organised a conference on the Women of Minorities in Athens
04.11.2024
As an example of the state’s systematic discrimination against the Turkish community in Western Thrace, ABTTF indicated that the freedom of association of women’s associations was violated because of the word ‘‘Turkish’’ in their name and accounted the effects of the backwardness of Western Thrace on Turkish wome...
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