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The annual report of the Civil Liberties Union for Europe highlights the deterioration of the rule of law in Greece
19.03.2025
ABTTF President: “Our country, which has not executed the ECtHR judgments in favour of our three associations for 17 years, disregards the rule of law and international law.” The civil society network known as the Civil Liberties Union for Europe analysed the current state of the rule of law in the European Union (EU) in its sixth an...
Written statement from ABTTF to the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council
13.03.2025
The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) submitted a written statement titled ‘‘Obstacles to Access to Quality Education for Children Belonging to the Turkish Community in Thrace in Greece’’ to the 58th session of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council held in Geneva, Switzerland on 24 February-4 April ...
Greece blacklisted for human rights and rule of law in EP report
06.03.2025
ABTTF President: “We have been facing, knowing and seeing this indifferent attitude of the rulers of our country in the issues of our community for years. Our country, which has not executed the three judgments of the European Court of Human Rights with respect to the associations of our community for the past 17 years despite all the warning...
Written contribution from ABTTF to the thematic report to be prepared by the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues
05.03.2025
The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) submitted its written contribution to the office of the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues Prof. Nicolas Levrat for the thematic report to be submitted to the 61st Session of the UN Human Rights Council in March 2026. In its written contribution, ABTTF conveyed the a...
Arbitrary and oppressive practices in Turkish minority schools in Western Thrace continue
03.03.2025
ABTTF President: “This latest incident is a new example and continuation of arbitrary and oppressive practices against our community in the field of education. We demand the immediate revocation of the circular of the State Director of Education, which has no legal basis and is used as a tool for arbitrary practices in our schools’&rsqu...
The fact that our motherland expressed our issues before the UN caused discomfort in our country
27.02.2025
ABTTF President: “Contrary to what Kotsiras, the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of our country, claims, our educational and religious autonomy guaranteed by the Treaty of Lausanne has de facto disappeared nowadays as a result of various laws and unilateral practices over the years. While all these facts are obvious, we call on the rulers...
ECRI assesses the status of implementation of its recommendations for Greece
25.02.2025
On 19 February 2025, the Europe Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) of the Council of Europe released its concluding observations on whether and how Greece has implemented the priority recommendations of its 6th country report on Greece, published in September 2022. In its conclusions, which are based on the Greek government’s...
Happy International Mother Language Day!
21.02.2025
ABTTF President: “We call on our country to immediately end its discriminatory policy against our community, which is incompatible with fundamental human rights, and on the 25th anniversary of International Mother Language Day, we reiterate our demand for bilingual Turkish kindergartens’’. The United Nations (UN) Educational, S...
Our country Greece continues to deliberately distort the facts!
19.02.2025
ABTTF President: ‘When our motherland protects our community, which shares the same fate with the Greek Orthodox minority in accordance with the Treaty of Lausanne, and brings its issues to the forefront, for some reason our country perceives this as baseless and false news and provocation every time. As the Turkish community in Western Thrac...
ABTTF President paid a working visit to Brussels
18.02.2025
Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) President Halit Habip Oğlu paid a working visit to Brussels, the capital of the European Union (EU) on 18 February 2025. Habip Oğlu, accompanied by Deniz Servantie from ABTTF Brussels Office, met with MEPs from the European Parliament (EP) Iuliu Winkler (EPP, Romania) from the Hungarian ...
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