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Greece’s judicial system is slow
30.10.2024
ABTTF President: ‘‘Recently, the judicial system in our country has been under the influence of politics more than ever and legal cases related to fundamental rights and freedoms are politicised. The most obvious example of this is that our country has not executed the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights with respect to thre...
68% of people in Greece do not believe that the rule of law is upheld in the country
28.10.2024
ABTTF President: “How can the public have confidence in the government after the recent succession of legal scandals in our country? The government is using strategic lawsuits as a tool of intimidation for political purposes and is directly attacking the fundamental values of the EU. For years, prominent members of our community or associatio...
MP Stylianidis accuses those who reacted to the provocation at Çınar Mosque of terrorising Turkish nationalism
23.10.2024
ABTTF President: “In what era are we living in, since when has it become a terrorist act to react in a democratic way and to express an opinion on the issue being reacted to? Stylianidis should know that what he is doing is above all a violation of freedom of thought and expression’’. New Democracy MP for the Prefecture of Rodo...
ABTTF participated in the consideration of Greece of the UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
22.10.2024
ABTTF, which contributed to the review process, brought to the agenda the violation of the freedom of association of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and the non-execution of ECtHR judgments in the Bekir-Ousta group of cases for the past 16 years. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF), which has a special consultative s...
Minister of Foreign Affairs Gerapetritis: The first package of chapters opened for Albania should include the Greek ethnic minority
17.10.2024
ABTTF President: “The rulers of our country, who do not respect the rights of our community, who are Greek and EU citizens, and who have trampled on the rule of law in recent years, try to lecture other countries on similar issues as if these things never happen. Minority rights and the rule of law must be fully and completely respected not o...
Provocation from appointed mufti regents in Western Thrace!
14.10.2024
ABTTF President: “We strongly condemn this provocative action of the appointed mufti regents, which the Turkish community in Western Thrace has never accepted, disregarding the will of our community and aiming to disturb the peace in the region’’. On Friday, 11 October 2024, the appointed mufti regents of Komotini, Xanthi ...
What does Minister Dendias mean?
09.10.2024
ABTTF President: “We are as much Turks, Western Thrace Turks, as the non-Muslim minority in Istanbul, Bozcaada and Gökçeada are Greeks. Our existence, status and rights in the region are defined and guaranteed by the Treaty of Lausanne. They should perceive us as such and treat us accordingly, i.e. by recognising our Turkish exist...
Representatives of the Turkish community in Western Thrace attended the OSCE Human Dimension Conference
08.10.2024
ABTTF brought to the agenda the violation of the freedom of association of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and the investigations against its elected muftis and the targeting of its leading representatives. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) and the Western Thrace Minority University Graduates Association (WTMUGA), ...
ABTTF participated in an event on teaching regional and minority languages in pre-scholar age
07.10.2024
The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) participated in an event organised by the Brussels Representation of the Autonomous Region of South Tyrol in cooperation with the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) on 3 October 2024 in Brussels. Deniz Servantie from ABTTF Brussels Office attended the event entitled ‘‘...
ABTTF President paid a working visit to the PACE Autumn Session
04.10.2024
Within the framework of his Strasbourg contacts, ABTTF President indicated that the execution of the ECtHR judgments regarding the Bekir-Ousta group of cases is a litmus test for our country where the rule of law is under threat. Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) President Halit Habip Oğlu paid a worki...
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