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An opportunity for change for the new government!
09.08.2023
ABTTF President: “Indeed, as Mitsotakis’ father implemented the policy of isonomia-isopolitia, that is, equality before the law and equal citizenship, may be the son Mitsotakis would talk about change as the government! However, the government must first show its goodwill towards our community, and this would be implementation of the EC...
Another criticism of our country’s distorted perspective!
04.08.2023
ABTTF President: “Our country, which claims that only Greeks or Greek Muslims live in Western Thrace, denies the existence of the Turkish community in Western Thrace living in these lands for centuries and our Turkish identity; and defines us as Greek Muslims.” Georgios Papahristos, one of the famous writers and journalists of ...
TRT World: “How Greece denies proper education to Turks in Western Thrace?”
28.07.2023
Halit Habip Oğlu: “The main purpose of all these obstacles is to pretend that there is no Turkish presence in Western Thrace, that is, to try to turn this into reality by creating a perception based on denial.” In the analysis published on the website of TRT World, the English-language channel of the Turkish Radio and Tel...
On the 100th anniversary of Lausanne, the permanent anti-minority policy of the Greek state is in the Prin newspaper!
27.07.2023
ABTTF President: “The government should take a real and sincere step to change the state policy that ignores, marginalizes and demonizes Turkish community on the 100th anniversary of Lausanne. The government should first implement immediately, with no excuses, the ECtHR judgments, which we have been waiting for 15 years to be implemented. The...
We wish our country and motherland recovery due to the wildfires
25.07.2023
As the representatives of the Turkish community in Western Thrace in Europe and at international arena, ABTTF Presidium and ABTTF family are deeply saddened by the wildfires in our country and our motherland, and we convey our deep condolences to our country and motherland, which are struggling with wildfires. Our hearts and prayers are with our co...
9 more Turkish primary schools will be closed in the new academic year in Western Thrace!
20.07.2023
ABTTF President: “Like the previous ones, this latest decision of the Ministry of Education to close our schools is completely against the Treaty of Lausanne! We call on our country to immediately put an end to the closure of our primary schools, which is a clear violation of our educational autonomy, and to establish a direct dialogue with u...
Prime Minister Mitsotakis continues his habit of distorting the facts by denying again the identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
11.07.2023
ABTTF President: “We no longer want to hear empty words from our Prime Minister that distorts the facts, and we want our usurped rights to be restored immediately and the principle of equality before the law to be implemented in practice.” Our country Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis also referred to the Turkish comm...
A written question to the European Commission about the issues faced by the Turkish community in Western Thrace in the field of education
06.07.2023
Members of the European Parliament (MEP) Loránt Vincze (Romania, EPP), François Alfonsi (France, Greens/EFA), Herbert Dorfmann (Italy, EPP) and Yana Toom (Estonia, Renew) submitted a written question titled ‘‘Access to quality pre-school education for children belonging to an autochthonous community in Western Thrace (Gree...
Sotiris Valden, one of the important names of SYRIZA demanded the recognition of the ‘‘Turkish’’ minority in Western Thrace
30.06.2023
ABTTF President: “The rightminded politicians of our country, such as Valden, see that the truth can no longer be plastered with mud, and they openly declare that the denial of our presence in Western Thrace and our Turkish identity cannot be sustained by our country any longer, and that this policy of denial harms our country’s interes...
The Turkish community in Western Thrace will be represented by four deputies in the Greek Parliament in the new legislative period
29.06.2023
ABTTF President: “We demand that the ND government, which has taken office, learn from the mistakes it has made in the last four years and deal with the issues of our community sincerely, and consult with us by establishing a one-to-one dialogue from the very beginning on the reforms it will carry out on matters directly related to us’&...
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