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Board of trustees detained in Turkish village in Western Thrace!
17.02.2025
ABTTF President: “This latest incident is a new example of the systematic oppression and intimidation our community has been subjected to recently. There is clearly a bad intention here! There can be no other explanation for the detention of our benefactors in handcuffs as if they had committed a major offence due to a voluntary action’...
The request for a new school building at Xanthi Turkish Minority Secondary and High School is again on the parliamentary agenda
14.02.2025
ABTTF President: “We want a new school building! Until today, we have kept this issue on the agenda with the initiatives of our school board and with the support of our politicians representing the Turkish community in Western Thrace, our associations and the people of our region, and we have not allowed the relevant public institutions and o...
Minister of Education of Türkiye Yusuf Tekin drew attention to the decreasing number of primary schools in Western Thrace
11.02.2025
ABTTF President: “In 2013, Türkiye approved the opening of a Greek primary school in Gökçeada with only 3 students. This situation is proof of how decisive the policy and attitude of states towards minorities is. We ask our country to restore our educational autonomy and to adopt a constructive, good-faith approach in solving...
President of the Plenary of the Greek Bar Associations Vervesos: Recent judgments of the European Court of Human Rights constitute a big warning for Greece
07.02.2025
ABTTF President: “The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe should immediately initiate the infringement procedure against our country, which persistently and deliberately fails to fulfil its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, without further delay. Indeed, every day lost means further damage to democracy and...
ABTTF realised a written contribution to the European Commission’s Rule of Law Report 2025
06.02.2025
The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) submitted its written contribution to the European Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law Report. ABTTF, which participated in the online consultation process open to civil society organisations and other stakeholders in EU Member States initiated by the European Commission for the 2025 Rule of ...
The rulers and politicians of our country are uncomfortable with the protection of the Turkish community in Western Thrace by our motherland
05.02.2025
ABTTF President: “Our expectation and request from the leading politicians of our country, including Mantzos, is that they act responsibly, leaving aside cheap political interests, and support, not obstruct, the efforts and steps to develop the recent positive agenda between our country and our motherland”. PASOK-KINAL MP and also th...
ABTTF paid a working visit to Strasbourg
29.01.2025
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu, during his meetings, brought to the agenda the non-execution of the ECtHR judgments on the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases by Greece for the past 17 years and the building issue and the confusion of competencies with respect to the the Xanthi Turkish Minority Secondary and High School. President of the Fed...
Human Rights Watch: The issues of democracy, human rights and the rule of law in Greece due to state actions are very serious
23.01.2025
ABTTF President: “Our country is moving further away from being a country that is free, democratic and fully committed to the rule of law. In face of this worrying situation, both our country and international organisations should take the reports of international organisations seriously and take the necessary steps.” Human Rights Wa...
The EP Minorities Intergroup was re-established
16.01.2025
ABTTF President: “As ABTTF, we sincerely congratulate Loránt Vincze on his election as Chair of the Minorities Intergroup and we strongly believe that his strong support for our community and ABTTF will continue in the future. In the new legislative period of the EP, we will continue to raise the issues of our community at the meetings...
Article on the Turkish community in Western Thrace in a German-language newspaper in Romania
15.01.2025
An article on the Turkish community in Western Thrace and its issues was published on 9 January 2025 in ‘‘Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung für Rumänien (ADZ)’’, the newspaper of the German minority in Romania. In the article titled ‘‘Athens refuses to execute the ECtHR judgments’’ and wr...
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