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Restoration works continue at the historical Sultan Çelebi Mehmet (Beyazıt) Mosque in Didymoteicho
06.08.2024
ABTTF President: “It is the wish and desire of all of us that the restoration works, which began in 2022, five years after the fire in 2017, will be finally completed by the end of 2025, as indicated by the Minister. As we have expressed before, we hope that the restoration works will be carried out in accordance with the original form of the...
ND MP Syrigos ignored the right of children belonging to the Turkish community in Western Thrace to education in their mother tongue
29.07.2024
ABTTF President: “While bilingual kindergartens can be opened and operate without any issues in other Member States of the European Union, the government in our country should consider and fulfil the demand of our community, both as citizens and voters, for bilingual kindergartens’’. In his speech at the Greek Parliament, New D...
Our motherland’s protection of the Turkish community in Western Thrace has again caused discomfort in our country
26.07.2024
ABTTF President: '‘Just as our country takes care of the Greek Orthodox minority in Albania and the Greek Orthodox minority in our homeland, just as the rulers of our country visit Greek schools during their visits to Istanbul and Gökçeada, it is natural and normal for the president of our motherland to take care of us by prot...
The European Commission published the 2024 Rule of Law Report
25.07.2024
The report also referred to the non-execution of ECtHR judgments by Greece and the violation of the freedom of association of the Turkish community in Western Thrace. The European Commission published the 2024 Rule of Law Report, which objectively and systematically analyses developments pertaining to the rule of law in the 27 EU Member States a...
ABTTF President Habip Oğlu: “It has never been easy to exist with our Turkish identity, it never will be!’’
23.07.2024
President of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) Halit Habip Oğlu assessed his working visit to Western Thrace on 16-17 July 2024 and the meetings he held with the President of the Western Thrace Turkish Minority Advisory Board (BTTADK) and its member institutions, organisations and individuals during the visit. Habip Oğlu p...
4 more Turkish primary schools in Western Thrace are being closed!
22.07.2024
ABTTF President: “On the one hand, the Greek primary school opened for only 3 students with the permission of our motherland in Gökçeada upon the request of the Greek Orthodox minority, with whom we share the same fate, and on the other hand, our Turkish primary schools which have an autonomous status, are closed down by our count...
Katrinis: “The judiciary must be free and independent”
18.07.2024
ABTTF President: “For the past 16 years, our country has persistently failed to execute the three ECtHR judgments with respect to the associations of the Turkish community in Western Thrace, known as Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases. We once again call on our country to urgently execute the aforementioned ECtHR judgments and we request t...
Minister of State Skertsos: Judicial reform will end the separation with the European system
11.07.2024
ABTTF President: “Will the judiciary be truly independent and act in accordance with the law when making decisions? Because when it comes to Western Thrace Turks, neither political parties nor the judiciary have acted in this way so far. Indeed, we have always said that there is no goodwill towards the Turkish community in Western Thrace, the...
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...
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...
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