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The Turkish community was ignored again during the visit of Prime Minister Mitsotakis to Western Thrace!
16.01.2023
ABTTF President: “We are calling out to Mitsotakis, the prime minister of our country: Real equality will be achieved by the state with the restoration of our educational and religious autonomy as one of the two peoples living in the region! Just as we made use of our citizenship rights on 29 January 1988, as a result of our patience in the f...
Objection to the recognition of the Centre for the Macedonian Language by the Florina Prosecutor!
10.01.2023
ABTTF President: “We always say that in our country, which prides itself on being the cradle of democracy, democracy is practically in the hands of a mindset that is highly distorted, ruled by prejudices and stereotypes!” Politicians and members of the judiciary continue to object to the recognition of the ‘‘Centre ...
Another distorted interpretation of the Treaty of Lausanne from former Greek President Pavlopoulos
21.12.2022
ABTTF President: ‘‘Our country, as it claims, does not fulfil the educational and religious autonomy of the Muslim minority, which it defines as a religious minority, arising from Lausanne. Indeed, because of the laws enacted by the state over time, our educational and religious autonomy has been taken from us to a large extent, and we ...
National and Religious Issues Foundation: ‘‘The majority of the Minority in Thrace were Pomaks who were converted to Islam by force during the Ottoman period!’’
20.12.2022
ABTTF President: “Now, the claim that the majority of the ‘Minority in Thrace’ is composed of Pomaks who were converted to Islam by force in the early Ottoman period’ has come to the forefront! So why do we always say that we are Turkish, why? It seems that our country is in such a stalemate that it is now trying to go back ...
Our ‘‘Turkish’’ identity is denied in our country
15.12.2022
ABTTF President: “No matter how much our country denies it, we are ‘Turks’ and we have been living with our ‘Turkish’ identity in Western Thrace for centuries. Just like Albanian citizens of Greek origin living in Albania, we are Greek citizens of Turkish origin.” Ambassador of our country Greece in Tirana Kon...
Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of our country that distorts the facts about the Turkish community in Western Thrace
13.12.2022
ABTTF President: “Our country does not allow our associations bearing the word ‘‘Turkish’’, closes our autonomous primary schools, does not recognise our elected muftis. Is this what it means to be a European country with a modern democracy? Is this to pursue a modern European minority policy?” In its statem...
The Committee of Ministers will send a letter to Greece which has not executed the ECtHR judgments in the Bekir-Ousta Group of Cases for the past 15 years
09.12.2022
ABTTF President: “In its decision taken at its meeting in Strasbourg, the Committee of Ministers went one step further and decided that the Chair of the Committee should send a letter to the Greek authorities as the Committee of Ministers also saw that our country did not intend to execute the three judgments with respect to the Bekir-Ousta G...
According to Lausanne, there cannot be a Muslim minority in Greece and a Greek Orthodox minority in Turkey!
07.12.2022
ABTTF President: “Stathis does not say that in the past, the state itself used the definition of ‘Turkish Minority’ for us, that it had written ‘Turkish primary schools’ in Turkish and Greek on our schools. Stathis does not say that the number of our primary schools has dropped from 231 to 99 in the last 25 years.&rdqu...
Representatives of the Turkish community in Western Thrace are in Geneva for the UN Forum on Minority Issues
02.12.2022
At the Forum, which was held with the theme of the 30th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, ABTTF and WTMUGA expressed the issues of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and the Turks in Rhodes and Kos in the field of minority rights. The 15th Session...
Former Minister of National Defence Frangos ignored our country’s violations of our educational autonomy
01.12.2022
ABTTF President: “Former Minister of National Defence Frangos says that 99 primary schools operate in Western Thrace today, but he overlooks the closure of 132 primary schools in the last 27 years, contrary to our educational autonomy guaranteed by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne.’’ Our country Greece’s former Minister of Nat...
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