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EU urges Greece to comply with the law on migrants
04.09.2020
ABTTF President: “We as Western Thrace Turks who have been subjected to systematic discrimination for years by our country Greece which prides itself of being the cradle of democracy have been waiting for over 12 years for the implementation by Greece of the ECtHR judgments.” At the daily press conference on 3 September 2020, t...
Another warning to Greece from the Committee of Ministers on the Bekir -Ousta group of cases!
04.09.2020
ABTTF President: ‘The truth is that the rulers of our country and the judiciary do not want to implement the ECtHR judgments. Indeed, when the ECtHR judgments were implemented, our country would not be able to further deny the existence of the Turkish community’. The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe examined the ...
The Mayor of Myki (Mustafçova) was targeted by the Greek press!
26.08.2020
ABTTF President: “We strongly condemn the deliberate targeting of our mayor with unfounded and false news, and we want the provocative propaganda aimed at putting pressure on representatives of the Turkish community in Western Thrace in our country Greece to end at once.” The Mayor of Myki (Mustafçova) Rıdvan Delihü...
Athens-based EPLO organised a webinar on minorities under the Treaty of Lausanne
26.08.2020
At the webinar attended by representatives of the Turkish community in Western Thrace, former President Pavlopoulos said that Greece has always acted in accordance with the Treaty of Lausanne and international law. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) attended the seminar titled ‘Aspects of the status of Minorities unde...
Intolerance is at an extreme stage again when it comes to Ottoman-Turkish monuments in Greece!
18.08.2020
ABTTF President: “Ottoman-Turkish monuments in Greece are an integral part of our country’s historical and cultural heritage. The Greek press is now continuing its provocative news coverage by targeting the German Ambassador to Athens, who shared a photo of the Fethiye Mosque in Ioannina.” The Ambassador of the Federal Re...
Scandal: In the Turkish village of Glafki, soldiers are on the street!
13.08.2020
ABTTF President: “I ask the EU and the German Presidency of the EU Council: What will you do against such trampling on human and minority rights, threatening the safety of its citizens in an EU member country by taking soldiers into the streets?” On August 12, 2020, in Gökçepınar (Glafki), one of the Turkish v...
8 additional Turkish primary schools will be closed in the new academic year!
12.08.2020
ABTTF President: “The closure of our Turkish primary schools under the pretext of austerity measures and lesser number of students at schools has become a tool of the systematic discrimination by our own country against the Turkish community in Western Thrace” The Greek Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs d...
Another blow to the educational autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace!
04.08.2020
Halit Habip Oğlu: “We demand the immediate cancellation of the law giving the administration of our madrasahs which have an autonomous structure to the government-appointed acting muftis and call on the Greek government to immediately end its practices aimed at eliminating the educational autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace.&r...
Video about the Greek Orthodox minority living in Istanbul
03.08.2020
Halit Habip Oğlu: “Considering the role of minority communities as bridge-builders between countries, we call on our country Greece to take the example of our motherland Turkey in the context of the positive steps it has taken towards the Greek Orthodox minority in Istanbul and to end its policy denying and ignoring the Turkish community in W...
Inter-party commission for the development of Western Thrace held its first meeting
30.07.2020
Halit Habip Oğlu: “The problems encountered by the Turkish community in Western Thrace in the economic area must be taken into consideration in the commission and the Turkish community should be supported economically.” The inter-party commission, which was created in the Greek Parliament regarding the development of the Wester...
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