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Official visit of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey to Athens
01.06.2021
ABTTF President: “We hope that the positive mood following the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of our motherland and our country in Athens will lead to the establishment of a dialogue mechanism between the official authorities of our country and the Turkish community in Western Thrace.” Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of...
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu visited Western Thrace
31.05.2021
ABTTF President: “As stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of our motherland, we as Western Thrace Turks want our rights and freedoms not to be politically instrumentalised in our country and we want to solve our problems in dialogue with the official authorities of our country.” Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Minister of Foreign ...
ABTTF is organising a webinar regarding the non-execution of ECtHR judgments on Western Thrace Turkish associations by Greece
28.05.2021
Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) with the support of MEP François Alfonsi is organising on 2 June 2021 an online panel discussion entitled “The Long-Standing Problem of Non-Execution of ECtHR’s Judgments by Greece: The Bekir Ousta and Others Group of Cases”. The online panel discussion will focu...
Greek Prime Minister imposes identity on Turkish community in Western Thrace
21.05.2021
ABTTF President: “We condemn the statements of our country’s Prime Minister Mitsotakis who ignores the Turkish community in Western Thrace and denies our Turkish identity. We call on our country which claims to be the cradle of democracy to immediately cease its policy of imposing identity on us and to respect our freedom to express our...
The US 2020 Report on International Religious Freedom released
19.05.2021
ABTTF President: “In the section on Greece of the report, we see that the problems experienced by the Turkish community in Western Thrace in the religious sphere are again partially included. By preparing a parallel report as we have done in the past years, we will detail the issues and demands of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and s...
We are Turks today as we were Turks for our country in the past!
11.05.2021
ABTTF President: “Since the 1970s, our country, which has imposed an identity on us by requiring the use of the word ‘Muslim’, does not allow us to define ourselves as ‘Turks’ in disregard of the most basic human rights and denies our Turkish identity. We have been living in this land as Turks for centuries and today w...
Young ABTTF attended the YEN General Assembly 2021
10.05.2021
New members of the YEN Executive Board and working groups were elected at the meeting attended by young people belonging to minorities from different countries in Europe. Young ABTTF attended the General Assembly of the Youth of European Nationalities (YEN) which was held online on 8 May 2021. Nihan Ayan, representing Young ABTTF, attended the m...
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey Yavuz Selim Kıran visited Western Thrace
07.05.2021
ABTTF President: “Minorities in the two countries should be considered as an element of richness, not as a threat to their countries, and should be seen as bridge-builders in improving the relations between the two countries. As the Turkish community in Western Thrace, we want to establish a dialogue with the rulers and authorities of our cou...
Greek authorities know no bounds in discriminating against the Turkish community in Western Thrace!
30.04.2021
ABTTF President: “It is a clear discrimination that Turkish teachers are not given appointments to get vaccinated. The health of teachers and students is at stake during the pandemic period. The authorities of our country should immediately solve this problem, and our teachers at our two schools should be able to get their vaccinations as soo...
Western Thrace Turkish delegation attended the OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting
28.04.2021
The Western Thrace Turkish delegation consisting of representatives of ABTTF, WTMUGA and FEP Party stated that the Turkish community in Western Thrace is not included in the legislative and decision-making process on issues of direct interest to it. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF), the Western Thrace Minority University ...
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