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Our country Greece has once again denied the issues of the Turkish community in Western Thrace!
14.01.2025
ABTTF President: “The ruling New Democracy nominates a member of the Greek minority in Albania, who is both an Albanian and a Greek citizen, as a candidate in the elections to the European Parliament from its own list, and this person is eventually elected, but for some reason, our motherland’s support for us is always met with a negati...
Greece ranks first in cost of living and last in the protection of human rights!
10.01.2025
ABTTF President: “One of the most obvious examples of our country’s systematic violation of freedom of association, one of the most fundamental human rights, and its disregard for international law is undoubtedly the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights regarding three associations of our community, which it has not executed ...
Racist attack on a young child from the Turkish community in Western Thrace in Komotini!
07.01.2025
ABTTF President: “We condemn in the strongest terms the racist and vile attack on a defenceless little boy in Komotini. The competent authorities of our country should urgently take the necessary measures to prevent such racist and hate attacks, which harm the peace and tranquillity in our region and the culture of living together and should ...
The issue of the new school building at the Xanthi Turkish Minority Secondary and High School has turned into an unresolved mess
23.12.2024
ABTTF President: “The Ministry claims that the issue does not fall within their jurisdiction, but with the Municipality of Xanthi, while the Municipality notes that minority schools are under the competence of the Ministry! In other words, everyone is throwing the ball to each other! As such, we feel stalled and ridiculed, we have been shouti...
Statement by Deputy Minister of Education Makri distorting the facts about the building problem of Xanthi Turkish Minority Secondary and High School!
18.12.2024
ABTTF President: “What is at stake is the education of our children in an appropriate building and in a healthy environment and the observance of their right to education. Unfortunately, the rulers of our country continue to ignore the educational issues of our community’’. Deputy Minister Zeta Makri responded to a question pos...
We stand by and support our WTMUGA and ITB Presidents who were called to testify at the police station!
11.12.2024
ABTTF President: “As ABTTF, we would like to convey our get well wishes to President of the Western Thrace Minority University Graduates Association Dr. Hüseyin Baltacı and President of the Xanthi Turkish Union Ozan Ahmetoğlu, who were called to testify within the scope of the investigation, and we would like to express that we are alway...
ABTTF President paid a working visit to Brussels
10.12.2024
President of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) Halit Habip Oğlu paid a working visit to Brussels, the capital of the European Union (EU) on Tuesday, 10 December 2024. Within the scope of the working visit, Habip Oğlu, accompanied by Deniz Servantie from ABTTF Brussels Office, held meetings with various Members of the...
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe examined the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases
06.12.2024
ABTTF President: “As we can see in the judgments of the Court of Cassation, our country does not intend to execute all three judgments in this group of cases in any way and is constantly playing for time. Although more than 16 years have passed since the ECtHR judgments, the official legal status of our Xanthi Turkish Union has still not been...
Our country treats its own minority as stepchildren
05.12.2024
ABTTF President: “Our country, which has been a member of the EU since 1981, calls on Albania, which is in the process of EU accession, to fully respect the rights of the Greek minority within its borders, but denies the Turkish national identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace, all members of which are both Greek and EU citizens, ...
Note verbale from Greece to the written statements submitted by ABTTF to the UN Human Rights Council
04.12.2024
The Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations (UN) Office and other international organizations in Geneva responded to the written statements submitted by the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) to the 57th session of the UN Human Rights Council on the demand for the dissolution of the Friendship Equality Peace (FEP) Party ...
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