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Western Thrace Turkish business people and cooperative representatives and Turkish supermarket chains operating in Berlin gathered together
25.04.2023
ABTTF President: “The Turkish community in Western Thrace in our region is a community based on agriculture, but due to the structural issues in our region, especially after the financial and financial crisis, migration has increased considerably. For this reason, we think that employment should be increased by enhancing production in our reg...
A resolution which also refers to minority rights was adopted in the European Parliament
21.04.2023
ABTTF President: “With the inclusion of the Framework Agreement and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in the EU legal system, the protection of national and autochthonous minorities in Europe and the promotion of linguistic and cultural diversity will be one of the general policy areas that are legally binding for all EU...
Visit to ABTTF from the Director of the Museum of Football, Culture and Identity in Milan
19.04.2023
Francesco Zema, sports reporter from Milan, Italy, and Director of the Football, Culture and Identity Museum named ‘‘CALCI’’, visited the headquarters of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) in Witten, Germany, on 18 April 2023, after a visit he realised to Western Thrace. Zema met with ABTTF President...
Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias visited Gökçeada on Easter
18.04.2023
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: “While 60 children are studying in the kindergarten and primary school, which was opened with only 5 children in Gökçeada with the support of our motherland, the number of our schools in Western Thrace decreased from 226 to 99 in the last ten years. As two communities whose status and rights were ...
Report from ABTTF in response to the Greece Report on the U.S. Human Rights Practices Report for 2022
17.04.2023
ABTTF President: “Unfortunately, the U.S. Greece Human Rights Report gives less and less coverage to the issues of our community each year, which damages the credibility and reliability of the U.S. report. As every year, we have clearly expressed this criticism in the report we prepared as a response to the US Greece 2022 Human Rights Report....
The Racist Violence Recording Network published its 2022 Greece report
13.04.2023
The Athens-based Racist Violence Recording Network (RVRN) released its report on racially motivated violence in Greece in 2022 on 6 April 2023. RVRN’s eleventh annual report examines the quantitative and qualitative trends in racist violence in Greece, highlighting that racism and the targeting of human rights defenders erode the safety of...
Manipulative news from the Greek press about the article of the ABTTF President on the upcoming general elections in our country
06.04.2023
ABTTF President: “As ABTTF, we have only supported Turkish candidates in the general, regional, and local elections in our country. As I have clearly stated in my article, which is the subject of the news, we, as ABTTF, support Turkish candidates in the upcoming general elections. Ultimately, however, voting rights are personal in democracies...
Another example of the statements of our country’s politicians that deny the truth!
30.03.2023
ABTTF President: “When our country’s prime minister visited the Greek minority living in the south of Albania, which is not yet a member of the European Union, in December 2022, he was greeted with Greek flags by the Greek minority and even accompanied by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama for part of the visit. However, when the Prime Mi...
Parallel report from ABTTF to the report of the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs
29.03.2023
ABTTF President: “We demand from the government to establish a direct dialogue with our community on all matters concerning our community, and to adopt a genuine policy based on sincerity rather than a one-sided, imposing, and discriminatory approach towards our community. We want our parallel report on our issues with our religious autonomy ...
The issues of Western Thrace Turks were on the agenda at the United Nations
24.03.2023
In its oral statement at the UN, attended by all states, UN bodies and many civil society representatives in the world, ABTTF said that the Turkish community in Western Thrace is seen as a threat in its own country, and that because of this, it has been made the target of hate speech in politics and media. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks ...
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