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Racist attack on refugees’ homes in Crete
16.08.2021
ABTTF President: ‘Given the huge wave of migration from Afghanistan, and in the event that a sound immigration and asylum policy is not implemented, the likelihood that racist attacks such as the one that took place in Crete are perpetrated in other parts of the country will only increase’ A racist attack was carried out on refugees ...
Evripidis Stylianidis: ‘Where there’s even one Greek, there’s all of Greece’
09.08.2021
ABTTF President: ‘If Stylianidis says that every Greek person living in different countries represents the whole of the Greek nation and culture, how come he continues to impose the term ‘Muslim Minority’ by referring to the Treaty of Lausanne and denies the ethnic Turkish identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace living...
Unbelievable statements from the authorities of our country about our 12 primary schools to be closed in Western Thrace!
04.08.2021
ABTTF President: ‘Since you implement Lausanne totally, how come you are closing our schools, not those of the state, on grounds of shortage of students?’ With the decision of the Eastern Macedonia and Thrace State Regional Directorate of First and Second Degree Schools dated 30 July 2021, statements from the authorities of our count...
Astronomical fine for mosque in Turkish village in Greece!
03.08.2021
ABTTF President: ‘It is absolutely impossible to say that the astronomical fine imposed on the village trustees for allegedly converting the old school building into a mosque in the Turkish village of ten households Mikra Tímbanon (Küçük Davutlu) is proportionate. We hope that the authorities will respond positively to...
12 more Turkish primary schools to close in the new school year
02.08.2021
ABTTF President: “Although the Lausanne Peace Treaty grants the right to establish, manage and control its own schools by recognising autonomous status in the field of education, Turkish primary schools belonging to the Turkish community in Western Thrace continue to be closed on the grounds of shortage of students and as a further example of...
The foundation estate belonging to the Turkish community in Kos has been put up for sale by the appointed Charitable Foundation Administration!
02.08.2021
ABTTF President: ‘We request this sale which is in violation of the legislation on the foundation adminstration to be stopped and demand that the administration of the foundations in Rhodes and Kos take office through elections and not by appointment’. In the Dodecanese region of our country Greece and on the island of Kos, the...
A new blow to the educational autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace!
30.07.2021
ABTTF President: ‘Our country Greece continues its unilateral policies and practices aimed at completely eliminating our educational autonomy. A discriminatory law submitted and adopted by the Ministry of Education to the Parliament is the latest example of this and we demand that the law be amended to include the Western Thrace Turkish...
While our country Greece celebrates the anniversary of the restoration of democracy, repressive policies towards the Turkish community in Western Thrace continue
27.07.2021
ABTTF President: “It is evident that the values of liberal democracy in our country do not apply to the Turkish community in Western Thrace through the rights violations and discrimination which has increased and that we have faced since that time and the years after.” Our country Greece celebrated the 47th anniversary of the restora...
We are “Turks” in Western Thrace, and we want this to be respected
23.07.2021
ABTTF President: “Just as our country recognised us as ‘Turks’ from 1923 to 1983, we demand that it recognises us in the same way as ‘Turks’ and we are struggling for it.” The New Democracy Party (YDP) MP Evripidis Stylianidis from Rodopi once again used expressions targeting the Turkish community in Western T...
Western Thrace Turks attended the third OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting of the year
14.07.2021
During the meeting, the Western Thrace Turkish delegation comprised of representatives from ABTTF, WTMUGA and FEP Party expressed the rights violations and the discriminations faced by the Turkish community in Western Thrace in the digital age. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF), the Western Thrace Minority University Gradu...
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