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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...
Habip Oğlu: Our country, Greece, is the only EU country that does not recognise national minorities
29.11.2023
ABTTF President: “Our country, which closely and carefully monitors the protection and development of the human and minority rights of the Greek minority in Albania, sees no harm in violating the rights of our community, which is under its responsibility, for years, and disregards the values of the EU of which it is a member. Our country is t...
ABTTF expressed the educational issues of the Turkish community in Western Thrace at the EP Intergroup on Minorities
23.11.2023
The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) made a presentation titled ‘‘Problems in equal access to quality education for children belonging to the Turkish community in Western Thrace, Greece’’ at a meeting of the Intergroup on Traditional Minorities, National Communities and Languages at the European Parliamen...
The Council of Europe continues to closely monitor Greece for not executing the ECtHR judgments against it and regarding the associations of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
21.11.2023
ABTTF President: “If our country does not take a concrete step on the issue until the meeting in December, we ask the Committee of Ministers to consider initiating the infringement procedure against our country for not fulfilling its obligations arising from the treaty’’. Director of Human Rights of the Council of Europe Christ...
Double standards regarding the protection of human rights from our country Greece!
15.11.2023
ABTTF President: “We expect our country, which describes the imprisonment of the elected mayor of the Greek minority as a regression in human rights, to look in the mirror and show the same sensitivity for the Turkish community in Western Thrace as they are Greek citizens whose rights and freedoms have been systematically usurped for decades....
The hearing of the claim for damages filed by ABTTF against the newsbreak.gr news website was held in a higher court
09.11.2023
The hearing of the claim for damages filed by ABTTF against the news site newsbreak.gr, which published defamatory and false news about the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) in 2021, was held in Athens on 9 November 2023. ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu attended the hearing held at the Court of First Instance with several jud...
The 9th Annual Meeting of FUEN TAG was hosted by the Turkish community in Western Thrace
06.11.2023
The hosts of the meeting, the Western Thrace Turkish delegation, consisting of the representatives from ABTTF, FEP Party and WTMUGA, conveyed the current issues of the Turkish community in Western Thrace. The 9th annual meeting of the Working Group of Turkic Minorities/Communities within the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) (TAG), ...
Answer from the European Commission to the written question regarding the educational issues of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
25.10.2023
The European Commission answered the written question titled ‘‘Access to high-quality preschool education for children from the Turkish-minority community in Western Thrace (Greece)’’ presented by Members of the European Parliament (MEP) Loránt Vincze (Romania, EPP), François Alfonsi (France, Greens/EFA), Herbe...
Prime Minister Mitsotakis met with representatives of the Greek minority in Tirana
18.10.2023
ABTTF President: “Just as the Greek minority in Albania is Greek; we as the Turkish minority in Greece, we are Turks! However, our country does not accept this, turns its back on us, either ignores our problems or creates new ones each single day!’’ Our country Greece’s Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, went to T...
Independent Topsidis was elected as Governor in the second round
17.10.2023
ABTTF President: ‘‘As the Turkish community in Western Thrace, the voting potential of our community in the local elections was clearly understood, and as the Turkish community in the region, we demonstrated our strength in the local elections. No one can ignore, deny or underestimate the existence of the Turkish community in the region...
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