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ABTTF attended the 2021 European Regional Forum on Minorities
14.10.2021
In its presentation at the Forum, ABTTF cited examples of structural and systematic discrimination against the Turkish community in Western Thrace in Greece. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) representing the Turkish community in Western Thrace participated to the European Regional Forum on Minorities which was held online...
There is still no Muslim cemetery in Athens
08.10.2021
ABTTF President: ‘Reminding our country Greece of its obligations in the field of freedom of religion and worship, we invite the Greek authorities to respond positively immediately to the requests of Western Thrace Turks living in Thessaloniki for mosques and cemeteries’. There is still no Muslim cemetery in Greece’s capital At...
Greece’s test with ECtHR case-law
29.09.2021
ABTTF President: “Our country’s former Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos somehow does not mention the ECtHR judgments regarding the Western Thrace Turkish associations. As Venizelos knows very well, our country is obliged to fully comply with ECtHR case-law and cannot make a choice insofar as I decide to execute this ECtHR judge...
Circular restricting the fulfilment of the religious obligations of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
28.09.2021
ABTTF President: ‘Friday is a day of mass worship and is a sacred day to Muslims. We call on the Greek authorities to respect the religiously sacred days of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and to immediately revoke the circular, which lacks good faith’. The circular dated 17.09.2021, signed by Konstantinos Bandikos, Director ...
Western Thrace Turkish delegation attended 3rd Thematic Seminar of FUEN TAG
27.09.2021
The Western Thrace Turkish delegation, consisting of representatives of ABTTF and WTMUGA expressed the violations of the freedom of association of the Western Thrace Turkish community in Western Thrace and problems in the field of education The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF and the Western Thrace Minority University Graduat...
While young people from the Greek Orthodox minority are planning to settle in Istanbul, Western Thrace Turks that are victims of Article 19 are awaiting the return of their Greek citizenship
27.09.2021
ABTTF President: “Within the framework of the principle of reciprocity established by the 1923 Lausanne Peace Treaty, the same rights were granted to both the Greek Orthodox minority in our motherland Turkey and the Turkish community in Western Thrace in our country Greece, and their fate was drawn together. The Ecumenical Federation of Const...
Objection to the election of the muftis from metropolitan bishops in Western Thrace
23.09.2021
ABTTF President: ‘I would like to say to our metropolitan bishops the following: In Turkey, where we can compare with our muftis in Western Thrace on the basis of reciprocity, the Patriarch of the Fener Greek Orthodox Patriarchate should not be elected by the Synod Assembly but appointed by the state! That’s what I’m going to ask ...
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe called upon Greece to urgently execute the ECtHR judgments
17.09.2021
ABTTF President: ‘Due to the fact that our country has not executed the ECtHR judgments regarding the Bekir-Ousta and Others Group of Cases for the past 13 years and ignores the ECtHR case-law, we ask the Committee of Ministers to initiate the infringement procedure against our country in accordance with Article 46 of the ECHR in its next rev...
Letter from ABTTF to international authorities about Greece’s usurpation of the rights and freedoms of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
15.09.2021
ABTTF President: ‘While our motherland Turkey takes positive steps that improve the rights and freedoms of the Greek Orthodox minority regardless of the reciprocity defined by the Treaty of Lausanne, our country Greece ignores the Turkish community in Western Thrace and sees it as a threat to the unity of the country and public order’. ...
Western Thrace Turkish delegation attended FUEN 2021 Congress
13.09.2021
The text of the resolution on the non-execution of ECtHR judgments on Western Thrace Turkish associations by Greece was adopted by the FUEN Assembly of Delegates. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) attended the 65th annual Congress of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) held in Trieste, Italy on 9-12 Septembe...
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