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The rapprochement in bilateral relations between our motherland and our country and the issues of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
11.01.2024
ABTTF President: “We expect and demand the government to show the same goodwill towards our community, and to produce solutions to our issues that have been going on for years, especially those related to education, freedom of association and religious freedom, in dialogue with our community, not despite it’’. Speaking to Gre...
Will our rights be restituted on the 50th anniversary of the restoration of democracy?
04.01.2024
ABTTF President: “What about us Western Thrace Turks? As we always say, our country restored democracy in 1974, but democracy did not reach our region. Mitsotakis says, ‘‘We are Europe, we deserve to be European at every level’’. If so, aren’t Western Thrace Turks a part of this country? Aren’t we Europeans...
A special reference was made to respect for minority rights at the EU-Western Balkans Summit
20.12.2023
ABTTF President: “Why has our country, which is one of the oldest members of the EU and boasts of being the cradle of democracy at every opportunity, persistently not executed the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights regarding our associations in the Bekir-Ousta and Others Group of Cases for the past fifteen years? Why does our cou...
President Sakellaropoulou: Human rights are not a luxury
13.12.2023
ABTTF President: “If human rights are not a luxury, why does our country perceive human rights as a luxury and do not grant them to our community, which fights for human rights to survive as a minority? We ask this to our President and demand that the double standards applied to our community in the implementation of human rights in our count...
President Erdoğan of our motherland Türkiye visited Athens
08.12.2023
ABTTF President: “As Prime Minister Mitsotakis said, we are citizens of this country, and as we have always expressed as the Turkish community in Western Thrace, we have no issue that cannot be solved as long as there is dialogue and good will. As long as the government has the will to do so and approaches our issues sincerely.” Pres...
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe examined the Bekir-Ousta group of cases
08.12.2023
ABTTF President: “After 15 years, Greece is talking about its intention to establish a Committee of Experts to investigate the execution of the judgments in this group of cases and prepare recommendations for the Greek authorities. Don’t get me wrong, no decision has been taken on this issue yet, there is only some intention! Our countr...
Statement that distorts the facts from the Secretary General of Religious Affairs Kalantzis!
06.12.2023
ABTTF President: “It is natural that our country has demands and expectations from our motherland regarding the Greek Orthodox minority. On the other hand, we expect our country to approach the issues of our community in a sincere manner, which is its responsibility, and to respect their rights. Only then our country will be credible in terms...
ABTTF attended the UN Forum on Minority Issues
01.12.2023
At the forum, the representatives of the Turkish community in Western Thrace raised the discriminatory practices against the Turkish community in Western Thrace and issues pertaining to education in access to quality education. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) attended the 16th Session of the United Nations (UN) Forum on ...
Minister of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports Pierrakakis was informed about the situation of the Greek Orthodox minority schools in Istanbul
01.12.2023
ABTTF President: “It is quite normal for our country to protect the Greek Orthodox minorities living abroad as a motherland. However, we expect Minister Pierrakakis to show the same sensitivity towards the issues faced by the Turkish community in Western Thrace whom are Greek citizens and who share the same fate with the Greek Orthodox minori...
A written question was submitted to the European Commission at the initiative of ABTTF regarding the imposition of double-shift schooling at the Xanthi Turkish Minority Secondary and High School and the demand for a new school building
30.11.2023
Members of the European Parliament (MEP) François Alfonsi (France, Greens/EFA), Loránt Vincze (Romania, EPP), Herbert Dorfmann (Italy, EPP) and Yana Toom (Estonia, Renew) submitted a written question titled ‘‘Double-shift schooling in Western Thrace’’ to the European Commission. In the written question...
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