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Former Minister of National Defence Frangos ignored our country’s violations of our educational autonomy
01.12.2022
ABTTF President: “Former Minister of National Defence Frangos says that 99 primary schools operate in Western Thrace today, but he overlooks the closure of 132 primary schools in the last 27 years, contrary to our educational autonomy guaranteed by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne.’’ Our country Greece’s former Minister of Nat...
Stylianidis continued to distort the facts about Turkish community in Western Thrace
30.11.2022
ABTTF President: “Stylianidis had ignored the issues of the Turkish community in Western Thrace many times in the past and claimed that an open democratic model of society was being built in Western Thrace, where the majority and the minority lived together. While our rights are constantly violated, the claim made by Stylianidis of an ‘...
Prime Minister Mitsotakis met with students of Turkish primary schools in the Prefecture of Rodopi
25.11.2022
ABTTF President: “This meeting is nothing more than a nice picture, unfortunately this is the truth! Indeed, as I have said many times before, our country seeks to create a distorted reality instead of talking and solving the realities in our region and the issues of our community with mutual dialogue and a well-intentioned approach!” ...
ABTTF paid a working visit to Berlin
23.11.2022
The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) paid a working visit to Berlin, the capital of Germany, on 23 November 2022. ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu, accompanied by ABTTF Head Office Manager K. Engin Soyyılmaz, met with German Bundestag deputies Filiz Polat (Alliance 90/The Greens) and Boris Mijatović (Alliance 90/The Greens) duri...
Turkish community in Western Thrace and anti-Islamic hate crime incidents in OSCE 2021 Hate Crimes Report
22.11.2022
The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) has released its 2021 Hate Crimes Report. In the section on Greece of the report, which contains statistical and descriptive information on hate crime incidents in the states in the OSCE region, the Federation of...
A new example of the denial of the Turkish identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace in Greece
17.11.2022
ABTTF President: “In general, state authorities have been voicing the claim that there are no ‘‘Turks’’ in our country for years. The people of our country have been so brainwashed by the discourse in politics and media that denies our Turkish identity that even non-governmental organisations have come to the point of ...
ABTTF met with MEPs in Brussels
16.11.2022
The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) paid a working visit to Brussels on 16 November 2022. ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu, whom was accompanied by Deniz Servantie from the ABTTF Brussels Office, met with the Members of the European Parliament (MEP) François Alfonsi (Greens/EFA) from the Corsica region of France and Yana...
The protection of national minorities in Europe and the possible impact of regional development on minority rights were discussed in the ‘‘Facts about our Country’’ programme
11.11.2022
The tenth part of the online programme series of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) titled ‘‘Facts about Our Country’’ was broadcast on 10 November 2022. Herbert Dorfmann, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the German minority in Italy, was the guest of the programme. In the program mode...
ABTTF participated in the Fundamental Rights Platform annual meeting 2022
11.11.2022
The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) participated on 10 November 2022 in the Fundamental Rights Platform (FRP) annual meeting 2022 organised by the European Union (EU) Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA). ABTTF International Affairs Director Melek Kırmacı Arık attended the online meeting themed on the rule of law in the EU. The m...
Wiretapping scandal in our country is growing
08.11.2022
ABTTF President: “The government should immediately clarify all aspects of the wiretapping scandal that has become the ‘Watergate’ of our country and should not allow the scandal to further damage our country’s democracy and rule of law.” In our country Greece, where the National Intelligence Service (EYP) is bound ...
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