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Working visit by ABTTF to Brussels

The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) paid a working visit to Brussels, the capital of the European Union (EU), on 6 February 2019. Halit Habip Oğlu, President of ABTTF, accompanied by Aykut Garipoğlu... »

PACE adopted the resolution on the rights of persons belonging to national minorities

Halit Habip Oğlu: “As the Turkish community in Western Thrace, while we got actively... »

Study visit to Strasbourg by Western Thrace Turkish delegation

At the study visit, the judgements of ECtHR and ongoing legal process on Cultural Association of Turkish Women in the Prefecture of Rodopi and other Western Thrace Turkish Associations were brought to the agenda »

Reprimanding ill treatment at refugee camps in Greece

Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam), international aid organization, condemned the ill treatment made towards thousands of... »

Report on the rights of national minorities by PACE

Halit Habip Oğlu: “Prior to the report prepared by Mr. Badea being voted and adopted at the General Assembly in January 2019, as the representatives of the civil society we shall continue our interventions in Strasbourg and convey our opinions and recommendations on the report to the rapporteur” »

Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe warns Greece once again

Halit Habip Oğlu: “Despite the decade passed, our country Greece insists on not implementing the ECtHR judgements”

As part of its supervision mandate of the implementation of ECtHR judgements, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe at its meeting on 4-6 December 2018 in... »

WORKING VISIT TO COUNCIL OF EUROPE BY WESTERN THRACE TURKISH MINORITY ORGANIZATIONS

Western Thrace Turkish Minority delegation paid a working visit to the Council of Europe located in Strasbourg in France. The visit took place on 3-4 December 2018. »

ABTTF participates at the UN Forum on Minority Issues

Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) participated at the 11th session of the UN Forum on Minority Issues organized on 29-30 November 2018 at the Palace of Nations, UN office in Geneva. »

Hate motivated attacks against the Turkish community in Western Thrace addressed in the OSCE 2017 Hate Crime Data

The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization... »

Obtaining operating licence regarding historical mosques and masjids belonging to the Turkish community in Western Thrace is made to be compulsory

Elected Mufti of Komotini İbrahim Şerif was called to bear testimony once again!

Halit Habip Oğlu: “Recurrent legal prosecutions against the muftis elected by the Western Thrace Turkish community in Greece have become an instrument of intimidation and oppression and need to be terminated immediately” »

Western Thrace Turkish delegation is in Strasbourg

Halit Habip Oğlu, President of ABTTF, and Ozan Ahmetoğlu, President of Xanthi Turkish Union, brought the case of Xanthi Turkish Union which has been waiting for the implementation the ECtHR judgment pending for ten years onto the agenda. »

More News

Imprisonment and fine for Koray Hasan on the grounds of an accusation for an unauthorized renovation!

Boycotts for a better education in the Turkish minority schools in Western Thrace

Study visit by ABTTF to Western Thrace with the participation of foreign experts

ABTTF participates at OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw!

Religious autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace is being abolished!

ABTTF participates at the Meeting of the 10th Anniversary of the Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations

Rejection to Xanthi Turkish Union by the Court of Appeal of Thrace!

FUEN calls on Greece to immediately implement the judgements of ECtHR related to the Western Thrace Turkish associations

Western Thrace Turks participated at the FUEN 2018 Congress

Parallel report by ABTTF on the US 2017 International Religious Freedom Report on Greece


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