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ABTTF parallel report to the U.S. State Department’s 2024 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Greece
18.09.2025
In its parallel report, ABTTF detailed the issues faced by the Turkish community in Western Thrace, as well as the human rights violations and discrimination they are subjected to. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) submitted its parallel report on the 2024 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Greece 2024 published b...
Kathimerini addressed the schools of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and the schools of the Greek Orthodox minority
16.09.2025
ABTTF President: “On the one hand, our country Greece, which has closed our autonomous primary schools in violation of the Treaty of Lausanne and refuses to re-open those that have reached sufficient number of pupils, such as in the village of Paleo Zigos (Mizanlı). On the other hand, our motherland Türkiye, which permits the opening of ...
The Turkish community in Western Thrace protested against Greece’s discriminatory education policy!
11.09.2025
ABTTF President: “Over the years, our country has systematically closed dozens of our primary schools in violation of our educational autonomy guaranteed by the Treaty of Lausanne, thereby infringing upon our community’s right to education and jeopardising our children’s future.” The Turkish community in Western Thrace pr...
The government in our country Greece continues to distort the facts
09.09.2025
ABTTF President: “For over 17 years, our country has persistently failed to execute the ECtHR judgments regarding the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases, which involves three of our associations. This constitutes a disregard for the principle of the rule of law. Our expectation and demand from those governing our country is that they cease...
According to the Eurobarometer public opinion survey, seven out of ten people in Greece are pessimistic about the country’s current situation
04.09.2025
ABTTF President: “The government, mindful that respect for the rule of law and its protection are indispensable elements of the EU, must take the necessary measures without delay to counter this negative trend, which has been clearly expressed in the reports of international institutions and international civil society organisations, and must...
Our country, Greece, has implemented a Divide-and-Rule scenario
02.09.2025
ABTTF President: “Another divide-and-rule scenario has gained momentum based on our religious identity. But we will not fall for it! We experienced this with issue of Muftiate. Despite our rights guaranteed by treaties, our muftis, elected by our community, were not appointed to their positions; the state appointed its own. Our community was ...
The fact that our motherland brought the human rights violations and discrimination suffered by Turks in Western Thrace and the Dodecanese Islands to the attention of the UN Security Council has caused concern in our country
29.08.2025
ABTTF President: “Our country’s diplomacy still believes that it can manipulate the facts to convince the international community, that it can impose only the reality it believes in. However, all these efforts are futile. Indeed, now the whole world knows about the presence of Turks in Western Thrace and the Dodecanese Islands’&rs...
The Greek National Human Rights Commission drew attention to the issues concerning the rule of law in the country
29.08.2025
ABTTF President: “As clearly stated in the reports of EEDA and the European Commission, the systematic violation of the rule of law in our country is now an undeniable reality. Our country’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, disregards the European Court of Human Rights’ judgments concerning three associations of our communit...
Article in the Political newspaper about Turkish primary schools being closed in Western Thrace
26.08.2025
ABTTF President: “While our primary schools are being closed in violation of our educational autonomy, and despite the fact that we constitute the majority of the population in the prefecture of Rodopi and nearly half of the population in the prefecture of Xanthi, permission is not granted to open bilingual Turkish minority kindergartens. Whi...
Religious ceremony will be held also this year in Sümela Monastery
19.08.2025
ABTTF President: “We envy these positive practices with regard to the religious freedom of the Greek Orthodox minority in our motherland. Because in our country Greece, the religious autonomy and religious freedom of our community, which are guaranteed by international treaties, have been systematically violated for years through various laws...
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