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ABTTF paid a working visit to Strasbourg
22.06.2023
The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) paid a working visit to Strasbourg on 19-21 June 2023 in parallel with the Summer Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The ABTTF delegation, consisting of ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu and ABTTF International Relations Director Melek Kırmacı Arık, discusse...
Bakoyannis continues her unfounded claims regarding the Turkish community in Western Thrace
21.06.2023
ABTTF President: “Bakoyannis continues to use us as the tool of her party’s election campaign by targeting our community again and making baseless accusations. The statements of Bakoyannis and other high-level politicians of our country that marginalise our community and disregard its free will also seriously damage the international re...
Our country continues to distort the facts about the Turkish community in Western Thrace
14.06.2023
ABTTF President: “A systematic discriminatory policy is being implemented against us in our country. Is this the development of the ‘‘Muslim minority in Thrace’’? Whatever the language it is said in, the facts are clear!” At the conference organised by National and Kapodistrian University and the Hellenic Foun...
A documentary by Herinckx, a Journalism Department student which visited our region, about the Turkish community in Western Thrace, is on the air
13.06.2023
Fiep Herinckx, who studies at the Department of Journalism at Utrecht University, prepared a short documentary film about the Turkish community in Western Thrace. Visiting our region in May 2023 for the preparation of the documentary titled ‘‘Between Ankara and Athens’’, Herinckx met with the representatives of our community...
Dora Bakoyannis insulted the free will of the voters before the 25 June elections!
12.06.2023
ABTTF President: “Dora Bakoyannis, who has a strong name in the political arena in Europe, gave a speech, so to speak, showing a stick out of gold! We could not ascribe this statement to her at all, because the language of veiled threat is an open insult to the free will of the voters!’’ Dora Bakoyannis, one of the leading figu...
Those who say, ‘‘I told you so’’ are attempting to distort the facts!
09.06.2023
ABTTF President: “The argument that Greece sets an example with a democratic and humanist attitude towards the Turkish community in Western Thrace shows how deep the gap between discourse and practice is. Indeed, this is not true under any circumstances!’’ In the article of Lieutenant General Ioannis Stamoulis on the website Li...
We demand an ethnicity choice in the census to prove our presence in Greece
09.06.2023
ABTTF President: “As a community, we have clearly felt the negative consequences of the party policy of ND, which denies our existence and our Turkish identity, in the last four years that they have been in power. As Western Thrace Turks, we demand that the ethnic origin be accounted for in the census in our country, and we call on our countr...
The Committee of Ministers sent a letter to the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs as regards the Bekir-Ousta group of cases
08.06.2023
ABTTF President: “We find it positive that it sent a letter to the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs, but when we examine the files related to the group of cases, we see neither a timetable nor an explanation for the steps that our country is planning to take in this regard. Indeed, we know that our country does not intend to execute all thre...
The migrant pushbacks in Greece were discussed at the EP Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs
07.06.2023
ABTTF President: ‘‘Unlawful pushbacks are a clear example of the distorted practice of democracy and direct violation of human rights in our country. The investigation into the freezing of all assets against GHM Spokesperson Panayote Dimitras is also evidently a kind of retaliation by the Greek authorities for his work on pushbacks and ...
The free will and democratic choice of the Turkish community in Western Thrace are ignored
05.06.2023
ABTTF President: “ND or anyone else must first learn to respect the will of the people! Otherwise, political attitudes and discourses that marginalise and target the Turkish community in Western Thrace will harm our country’s democracy, as it is today.” In an interview with Proto Thema on 3 June 2023, former Prime Minister of G...
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