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ABTTF President met with Chairperson of the German National Delegation to PACE Frank Schwabe
04.04.2024
President of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) Halit Habip Oğlu met with Frank Schwabe, Chairperson of the German National Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), who is also a Member of the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag), on 4 April 2024. The meeting took place at Schwabe’s cons...
Report from non-governmental organisations in Greece to the European Commission on the gradual deterioration of the rule of law in the country
04.04.2024
ABTTF President: “Now someone’s true colours have been shown! The government must take into account the warnings and criticisms coming from within the country and from Europe regarding this negative situation regarding the rule of law, which has seriously damaged our country’s reputation in the international arena, and as an old m...
Statements from Stylianidis regarding education
03.04.2024
ABTTF President: “We hope and would like Stylianidis, who is also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, to refer to the issues our community is faced with in the field of education in his speeches and statements as a Member of Parliament of our region and to convince the government in resolving these issues’&r...
New criticism from Europe about the deterioration of the rule of law in Greece
22.03.2024
ABTTF President: “The politicised higher judiciary in our country persistently rejects the requests for the restoration of the official legal status of our oldest association, the Xanthi Turkish Union, and the official registration of the Cultural Association of Turkish Women of the Prefecture of Rodopi and the Evros Prefecture Minority Youth...
Yeni Mosque in Thessaloniki will be reserved for Eid prayers
15.03.2024
ABTTF President: “We are satisfied that Yeni Mosque in Thessaloniki will be reserved for the upcoming Eid prayers. We wish that Yeni Mosque would be reserved not only for Eid prayers but also for all prayers during the holy month of Ramadan, the sultan of eleven months, so that Muslims living in Thessaloniki could live and keep alive their tr...
Foreign Minister Gerapetritis: “Muslim minorities in (Western) Thrace have a special participation and full rights”
08.03.2024
ABTTF President: “Our country, which usurped our educational and religious autonomy guaranteed by the treaties with various laws and practices, is closing our autonomous primary schools in Western Thrace and ignoring our demand for bilingual Turkish kindergartens. We request our country to immediately abandon the perception discourse that is ...
The preliminary meeting of the EU project titled ‘‘B-SHAPES’’ was held in Komotini
06.03.2024
The preliminary meeting of the European Union (EU) project titled ‘‘B-SHAPES - Borders Shaping Perceptions of European Societies’’, in which the Turkish community in Western Thrace is also included, was held on 5 March 2024 in Komotini, with the initiative of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF). At th...
ABTTF organised a fact-finding mission to Western Thrace with the participation of foreign experts from Europe
05.03.2024
The experts participating in the fact-finding mission observed on-site the issues of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and the rights violations they are subjected to. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) organised a fact-finding mission to the Western Thrace region of Greece with a delegation of academics and experts f...
EP Rapporteur drew attention to the issues regarding the rule of law in Greece
01.03.2024
ABTTF President: “Our country, which has not executed the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights regarding our three associations for the past 16 years, continues to disregard the principle of the rule of law, despite clearly damaging its reputation in the international arena. If our country, which has been a member of the EU since 1...
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women published its concluding observations on Greece
28.02.2024
The United Nations (UN) Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) published its concluding observations on Greece which it considered at its 87th session held in Geneva, Switzerland, between 29 January and 16 February 2024. In its concluding observations, which include recommendations for Greece, which is a party to th...
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