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President of the Council of State Pikramenos emphasised the importance of upholding the rule of law and adhering to the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
11.11.2025
ABTTF President: “Our country, which has failed to execute three judgments regarding our community’s associations in the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases for the past 17 years and has politicised this group of cases over the years, has been found guilty once again in June 2025 for violating Article 11 of the Convention on freedom o...
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Theoharis: Fully guaranteeing the rights of the Greek national minority is an indispensable condition for Albania’s progress towards the EU
07.11.2025
ABTTF President: “When it comes to our community, even the most fundamental human rights are ignored by our country. There should be no double standards when it comes to human and minority rights, but our country has been doing this for years. When imposing conditions on neighbouring Albania during its EU accession process, when will our coun...
Habip Oğlu: “No one has the power to erase the name ‘‘Western Thrace’’
05.11.2025
ABTTF President: “This is not just a matter of names; it is part of our identity, our history, and our honour. There may be those who ignore us, who dismiss us. But we exist. And we will continue to exist, to make our voices heard on every platform’’. President of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) Halit H...
Greece ranks among the lowest in Europe in terms of the rule of law
31.10.2025
ABTTF President: “The Turkish community in Western Thrace is directly and most severely affected by the restriction of freedom of association in our country. Our country, which has failed to execute the three judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases for over 17 years, has once again ...
ABTTF attended the 69th FUEN Congress held in Italy
27.10.2025
At the FUEN Assembly of Delegates, ABTTF Vice President Nabi Ibraimtzik was re-elected as FUEN Vice President for the next three years. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF), representing the Turkish community in Western Thrace, participated in the 69th annual Congress of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), hel...
FUEN published an analysis on the difficulties faced by the Turkish community in Western Thrace and the Turks of Rhodes and Kos in Greece
22.10.2025
The project known as MinorityMonitor.eu, established by the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), of which the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) is a member, aims to provide a common platform for autochthonous national minorities and language communities in Europe to publicise human rights violations and abuses. In this...
New Left member Stamatis Sakellion opened ‘‘Pandora’s Box’’
22.10.2025
ABTTF President: ‘‘For the first time, a Greek has written with complete candour about the anti-democratic, discriminatory and oppressive state policy we face in our own country and the practices associated with it. What Sakellion has written is the stark reality of our country. Our country, which prides itself on being the cradle of de...
Director of the Presidential Legal Office Kousoulis: The efficiency of our judicial system has been among the lowest in EU Member States for years
20.10.2025
ABTTF President: “The statements made at the meeting, which was also attended by the Minister of Justice, are common knowledge. Our country must heed the constructive warnings of the EU and the Council of Europe and take the necessary steps without further delay to address the systematic violation of the rule of law’’. Greece&r...
Western Thrace Turks at the OSCE Human Dimension Conference
14.10.2025
ABTTF raised the issue of Greece’s systematic violation of the Turkish community in Western Thrace’s freedom of association. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) and the Western Thrace Minority University Graduates Association (WTMUGA), representing the Turkish community in Western Thrace, participated in the Orga...
Habip Oğlu: The Turkish cultural identity of Western Thrace must be taken into account!
10.10.2025
ABTTF President: “Our country’s leaders must now realise that nothing can be achieved through a policy of denial. The Turkish cultural identity in the cities of Western Thrace, particularly Komotini and Xanthi, which are included in this project run by the Ministry of Culture, must also be taken into account in the implementation of the...
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