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8 additional Turkish primary schools will be closed in the new academic year!
12.08.2020
ABTTF President: “The closure of our Turkish primary schools under the pretext of austerity measures and lesser number of students at schools has become a tool of the systematic discrimination by our own country against the Turkish community in Western Thrace” The Greek Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs d...
Another blow to the educational autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace!
04.08.2020
Halit Habip Oğlu: “We demand the immediate cancellation of the law giving the administration of our madrasahs which have an autonomous structure to the government-appointed acting muftis and call on the Greek government to immediately end its practices aimed at eliminating the educational autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace.&r...
Video about the Greek Orthodox minority living in Istanbul
03.08.2020
Halit Habip Oğlu: “Considering the role of minority communities as bridge-builders between countries, we call on our country Greece to take the example of our motherland Turkey in the context of the positive steps it has taken towards the Greek Orthodox minority in Istanbul and to end its policy denying and ignoring the Turkish community in W...
Inter-party commission for the development of Western Thrace held its first meeting
30.07.2020
Halit Habip Oğlu: “The problems encountered by the Turkish community in Western Thrace in the economic area must be taken into consideration in the commission and the Turkish community should be supported economically.” The inter-party commission, which was created in the Greek Parliament regarding the development of the Wester...
Possible dialogue process between Turkey and Greece
29.07.2020
Halit Habip Oğlu: “We do hope that issues pertaining to the Turkish community in Western Thrace will be tackled within the framework of talks between our country Greece and our motherland Turkey.” Following the explanation by İbrahim Kalın, Spokesman for the Presidency of Turkey which is the motherland of Western Thrace Turks t...
EU Leaders finally agreed on the COVID-19 economic recovery programme
22.07.2020
ABTTF President: ‘Western Thrace which has been ignored for years regarding economic development should be provided the necessary economic assistance by declaring it a priority region as a result of the economic results created by the pandemic’. After four days of negotiations at the EU Leaders Summit in Brussels, the European ...
Statement regarding the border gates from the Union of Municipalities of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace
10.07.2020
Halit Habip Oğlu: “We request from the Greek authorities to allow controlled crossings through all the border gates in Western Thrace and to refrain from decisions which would negatively affect the economy of the region.” The mayors of Eastern-Macedonia and Thrace region of Greece took joint decisions with respect to border cro...
The Turkish community in Western Thrace has been discriminated again!
08.07.2020
Halit Habip Oğlu: “Our country Greece pursues its official policy of denying the existence of the Turkish community in Western Thrace by ignoring the Turkish press which is operating within the framework of the laws in Western Thrace.” In order to inform the citizens regarding the coronavirus pandemic in Greece, the Government Spokes...
ABTTF attended OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting
24.06.2020
At the online meeting, ABTTF expressed the problems experienced by the Turkish community in Western Thrace in the field of expression, media and freedom of information. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) attended this year’s second Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on ‘Freedom of Expression, Media and Inform...
EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency’s 2020 Fundamental Rights Report released
15.06.2020
The Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) of the European Union (EU) published its 2020 Fundamental Rights Report on 11 June 2020. The report assesses major developments and ongoing obstacles to the protection of human rights in 2019 in EU Member States and EU candidate countries North Macedonia and Serbia. This year’s report focuses on ho...
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