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German minority in Poland organises Cultural Festival with the support of Poland and Germany
04.08.2022
ABTTF President: “Our country became a member of the EU in 1981, long before Poland. But compared to Poland, it is far behind Poland in terms of minority rights. In Greece, there is no passage for our associations with the word ‘Turkish’ in their names, and it is not possible for us to organise any event under the name of Turkish ...
Greek MEP Kefalogiannis’ written question as regards the Treaty of Lausanne
03.08.2022
ABTTF President: “In our opinion, it is Kefalogiannis himself who misreads and interprets Lausanne. For this, it will be sufficient for the Turkish community in Western Thrace to examine the practices in our region within the framework of the status and rights it had with Lausanne in the period from 1923 to the period of the Colonels’ J...
Greek MEP Kefalogiannis again ignored the ethnic identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace in his question to the European Commission
28.07.2022
ABTTF President: “Kefalogiannis claims that there is a Muslim minority in Thrace, while Istanbul, Gökçeada (Imbros) and Bozcaada (Tenedos) have Greek national minorities according to Lausanne. Kefalogiannis cannot not have known that the Treaty of Lausanne contains the phrase ‘non-Muslim minorities’. If he says that th...
Contradictory statement from Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Alexandros Papaioannou
27.07.2022
ABTTF President: “Is our country closing our schools due to the low number of students in the Turkish primary schools in our region based on the implementation throughout Greece, or is it abusing the principle of reciprocity and looking for an excuse to close our primary schools in our region due to the low number of primary schools of the Or...
Our religious autonomy will be officially abolished under the claim of modernising our mufti offices
26.07.2022
ABTTF President: “With this draft law, the institution of the Mufti office, which is managed by the Minority with its own resources, will be completely abolished, and the mufti offices will be turned into state offices under the control and direction of the state in terms of their organisational structure and functioning. It is not possible...
4 more Turkish primary schools are closing in Western Thrace in the next school year!
25.07.2022
In the 2022-2023 school year, 4 more primary schools belonging to the Turkish community in Western Thrace will be closed. According to the decision taken by the Ministry of Education, due to the fact that the number of students is less than 9, the primary schools located in Ergani (Yardımlı) and Kikidion (Tuzçuköy) in the province of Ro...
Is it desired to change the population balance in Western Thrace to the detriment of the Turkish community?
19.07.2022
ABTTF President: “While the racist Article 19 practice is still alive in the memory, the efforts to create a false perception with the suggestions mentioned in the article will once again deeply shake the trust of our community in its country.” An article published on the local xanthinews.gr news website states that the populat...
ABTTF attended the funeral ceremony of late Mufti of Xanthi Ahmet Mete
18.07.2022
Thousands of Western Thrace Turks accompanied our Mufti of Xanthi Ahmet Mete who passed away at the age of 57 in his last journey. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) attended on 15 July 2022 in Xanthi the funeral ceremony of our Mufti of Xanthi Ahmet Mete who passed away on 14 July 2022. The ceremony, which was attended by ...
National Minorities in Europe and the Turkish community in Western Thrace were discussed in the ‘‘Facts about our Country’’ programme
15.07.2022
The ninth part of the online programme series of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) titled ‘‘Facts about Our Country’’ was broadcast on 14 July 2022. The guest of the ninth programme was Loránt Vincze, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and President of the Federal Union of European Natio...
Turkish community in Western Thrace was ignored again during Prime Minister Mitsotakis’ visit to Komotini!
12.07.2022
ABTTF President: “We witnessed that our Prime Minister, who did not meet with the elected representatives of our community during his visit to Komotini, once again ignored our issues by pursuing the official policy of state denial of our community’’. Our country Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited Komotini...
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