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ABTTF brings the educational challenges facing the Turkish Minority in Western Thrace to the international agenda with a study prepared in three languages
29.06.2026
The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) has published a study titled “The Right to Education in Mother Tongue and State Intervention in the Autonomous Education System of the Turkish Community in Western Thrace,” which comprehensively addresses the challenges faced by the Turkish Minority in Western Thrace in the field ...
ABTTF participated in an EP meeting on the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights Report 2025
25.06.2026
The Brussels Office of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) participated in a meeting of the European Parliament’s (EP) Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs (LIBE) held in Brussels. At the meeting, which ABTTF attended as part of its activities in Brussels, the European Union Agency for Fundamen...
In its report on Albania, the European Parliament called for the protection of the rights of the Greek minority
24.06.2026
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: “While Greece defends the rights of the Greek minority in Albania, it systematically violates the fundamental rights of the Turkish Minority in Western Thrace within its own borders” At its session held in Strasbourg on 17 June 2026, the European Parliament (EP) Plenary adopted progress reports on th...
Western Thrace Turks who protested against the provocations of the muftis appointed by Greece were sentenced to prison
19.06.2026
ABTTF Başkanı: “As ABTTF, the representative body of the Western Thrace Turks living in Europe, we strongly condemn the court’s unjust prison sentence handed down to four representatives of our minority; we extend our best wishes to them and want them to know that we stand by them at all times”. On 11 October 2024, the then app...
Patriarch Bartholomew: The situation of minorities in both countries should not be viewed through the prism of Turkish-Greek relations
17.06.2026
ABTTF President: “It is hoped that Patriarch Bartholomew, during his next visit to our country, will use the same constructive language he used in his interview with the government regarding our minority. As Bartholomew himself indicated, our motherland has taken many positive steps in recent years to improve the situation of the Greek Orthod...
Greeks in Poland have been officially recognised as a national minority
16.06.2026
ABTTF President: “Our country, which boasts at every opportunity of being the cradle of democracy, has a policy toward national minorities and a level of respect for minority rights that cannot even be compared to Poland. Our country, which disregards the rights of the Turkish Minority in Western Thrace—rights guaranteed by internationa...
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has called on Greece to execute the ECtHR judgments in the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases without delay
12.06.2026
ABTTF President: “If our country fails to take concrete steps by December 2026 to execute the final judgments of the ECtHR concerning our associations, we demand that the Committee of Ministers initiate the infringement procedure against our country under Article 46, paragraph 4 of the Convention for disregarding its obligations under the Con...
ABTTF President Habip Oğlu: Our country must first address its poor record on human and minority rights
11.06.2026
ABTTF President: “Although our country has been an EU member since 1981, while it demands respect for the rights and national identity of the Greek minority in Albania, it denies the ethnic Turkish identity of the Turkish Minority in Western Thrace—whose members hold both Greek and EU citizenship—and bans our associations bearing ...
The appeal filed by the Western Thrace Fenerbahçe Culture and Sports Association has been rejected!
11.06.2026
ABTTF President: “Considering that our country Greece has failed to execute the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgments regarding the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases for the past 18 years and has completely disregarded them, this latest decision is not of a legal nature but is entirely political in character, demonstratin...
The Greek government is concerned about the European Commission's rule of law report for this year
10.06.2026
ABTTF President: “The Tempi train crash, illegal wiretapping, and the OPEKEPE incident have been the most glaring examples of the systematic and institutional violation of the rule of law in our country, Greece, in recent years. These legal scandals, for which the government bears primary responsibility, have naturally dealt a severe blow to ...
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