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ABTTF submitted two written statements to the UN
09.07.2024
ABTTF brought the issue of freedom of association and the targeting of the Turkish community in Western Thrace to the agenda and emphasised that the rule of law in Greece has been seriously undermined The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) submitted two written statements to the 56th Session of the United Nations (UN) Human Rig...
Minority school in Gökçeada enables the return of the population
09.07.2024
ABTTF President: “With the permission of Türkiye, a primary school was opened with only 3 students, whereas in our Western Thrace the situation is exactly the opposite. With the decision to close primary schools with less than 9 students, the number of primary schools decreased from 188 in 2011 to 90 today. If the state had heard our jus...
Mitsotakis: We received the message of the people in the EP elections
05.07.2024
ABTTF President: “I hope that our Prime Minister has also received the message we gave with the votes we casted to the FEP Party in Rodopi and Xanthi. Indeed, as the Turkish community in Western Thrace, by making the FEP Party the first party in Rodopi and Xanthi on the map, we showed to the government and all political parties that it is not...
The Plenary of the Greek Bar Associations will bring the structural issues in the justice system in our country to the EU
05.07.2024
ABTTF President: “We have witnessed the politicisation of the justice system and the direct influence of politics on the justice system many times during the 16 years we have been waiting for the execution of the ECtHR judgments in the Bekir-Ousta and others group of cases. The dissolution of our Fenerbahce association, which is a simple fans...
Newsbreak: “Someone needs to pull the ear of the unruly Muslims in Thrace’’
04.07.2024
ABTTF President: “According to Lausanne, if there are Muslim minorities in Greece, there are also non-Muslim minorities in Türkiye. I would like to ask Bolosis, if there are no Turks in our region, why do we have Turkish-language schools, why do we have Turkish-language newspapers? I would recommend Bolosis to look at the number of votes...
Mitsotakis: There can be no equitable development unless the rule of law is implemented
02.07.2024
ABTTF President: “I agree with Mitsotakis, it is not possible to create a fair society, equitable development and equal democracy unless the rule of law is implemented as a whole. For this reason, I reiterate our call without hesitation. Our country Greece must put an end to the violation of our freedom of association and execute the ECtHR ju...
ABTTF paid a working visit to Strasbourg
26.06.2024
Conveying the latest developments in Western Thrace, ABTTF President brought to the agenda the closure of the Fenerbahçe Association and the portrayal of the success of the FEP Party in the EP elections as a threat to the national integrity of the Turkish community. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) paid a working v...
Statements from ND Deputy Syrigos that distort the facts about the Turkish community in Western Thrace
21.06.2024
ABTTF President: “With the votes we casted for our FEP Party in the European Parliament (EP) elections, we made our party the first party in the prefectures of Rodopi and Xanthi, clearly showing that we are ‘Turks’ to everyone who denies our identity, like Syrigos, and proved our presence in our region. No matter how much Syrigos ...
Habip Oğlu: “Despite the historic success of our FEP Party in the 2024 EP elections, the rulers of our country continue to deny the identity of our community.”
14.06.2024
ABTTF President: “The FEP Party is the party of our community, and it is the Turks who voted for it and made it the first party in the prefectures of Rodopi and Xanthi. Our party’s last election success has once again confirmed this fact, despite all our country’s denial policy. If our Prime Minister, who nominated an Albanian cit...
ABTTF President Habip Oğlu: “We showed that we are ‘Turks’ with the votes we casted to our party in the 2024 EP elections, and we proved our existence in the region with the votes our party received.”
14.06.2024
In the European Parliament (EP) elections held in Greece on 9 June 2024, the Friendship Equality and Peace (FEP) Party, the only political party and representative of the Turkish community in Western Thrace in the political field, became the first party by receiving the most votes in the prefectures of Rodopi and Xanthi, as in 2014 and 2019. and ac...
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