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Xanthi Turkish Minority Secondary and High School Board: We are not being allowed to enter the building of the school we manage!
01.10.2025
ABTTF President: “We are well aware that our country aims to completely eliminate our Turkish school system and educational autonomy through these arbitrary and oppressive practices, but we will never allow this to happen. We stand firmly behind the Xanthi Turkish Minority Secondary and High School Board in their democratic and just struggle....
ABTTF President Habip Oğlu paid a working visit to Strasbourg
01.10.2025
President of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) Halit Habip Oğlu paid a working visit to Strasbourg from 29 September to 1 October 2025, in parallel with the Autumn Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). During the working visit, accompanied by ABTTF Director of International Relations Melek ...
Police violence in Xanthi: A member of the Turkish community in Western Thrace was beaten!
30.09.2025
ABTTF President: ‘‘We strongly condemn the completely arbitrary arrest and beating of a member of our community by a police officer in Xanthi and convey our best wishes to him and his family. The police officer responsible for this incident, which tramples on human dignity, and other responsible parties must be held accountable as soon ...
Happy European Day of Languages!
26.09.2025
ABTTF President: “We reiterate our demand for bilingual Turkish minority kindergartens and call upon the Council of Europe and our country which is a member of the Council of Europe and the EU to immediately cease closing our special and autonomous primary schools belonging to our community and to ratify the Framework Convention for the Prote...
ABTTF participated in events organised to mark the European Day of Languages
26.09.2025
The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) participated in events held in Brussels on the occasion of the European Day of Languages. Deniz Servantie from ABTTF Brussels Office attended the reception organised by the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), of which ABTTF is a full member, on the evening of Tuesday, 23 September...
ABTTF and FUEN Vice President Nabi Ibraimtzik participated in FUEN’s working visit to Berlin
22.09.2025
Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) and Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) Vice President Nabi Ibraimtzik participated in the working visit organised by FUEN, of which ABTTF is a full member, to Berlin, the capital of Germany, on 17-18 September 2025. The FUEN delegation, consisting of FUEN Vice Presidents Olivia Sch...
ABTTF parallel report to the U.S. State Department’s 2024 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Greece
18.09.2025
In its parallel report, ABTTF detailed the issues faced by the Turkish community in Western Thrace, as well as the human rights violations and discrimination they are subjected to. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) submitted its parallel report on the 2024 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Greece 2024 published b...
Kathimerini addressed the schools of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and the schools of the Greek Orthodox minority
16.09.2025
ABTTF President: “On the one hand, our country Greece, which has closed our autonomous primary schools in violation of the Treaty of Lausanne and refuses to re-open those that have reached sufficient number of pupils, such as in the village of Paleo Zigos (Mizanlı). On the other hand, our motherland Türkiye, which permits the opening of ...
The Turkish community in Western Thrace protested against Greece’s discriminatory education policy!
11.09.2025
ABTTF President: “Over the years, our country has systematically closed dozens of our primary schools in violation of our educational autonomy guaranteed by the Treaty of Lausanne, thereby infringing upon our community’s right to education and jeopardising our children’s future.” The Turkish community in Western Thrace pr...
The government in our country Greece continues to distort the facts
09.09.2025
ABTTF President: “For over 17 years, our country has persistently failed to execute the ECtHR judgments regarding the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases, which involves three of our associations. This constitutes a disregard for the principle of the rule of law. Our expectation and demand from those governing our country is that they cease...
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