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51% of people in Greece complain about the democracy deficit
16.05.2024
ABTTF President: “The legal system in our country is under the influence of politics to a degree that it has not been in recent years, and those who hold the executive power use strategic cases with political motives as a tool of intimidation. Our community’s associations and representatives who defend their rights have been subjected t...
SYRIZA President Kasselakis: “We want a modern Greece that respects human rights, the rule of law and international law”
15.05.2024
ABTTF President: “Our country, which has not executed the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights regarding our three associations in the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases for the past 16 years, is following a strategy of playing for time on this issue and constantly stalling the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. Al...
Prime Minister Mitsotakis paid a visit to Ankara
14.05.2024
ABTTF President: “As our Prime Minister pointed out, as the Turkish community in Western Thrace, we are a bridge of friendship and peace between our country and our motherland, and we believe that if the government shows the will, our issues will definitely be solved through dialogue and good will. At this point, we invite our Prime Minister,...
Leader of the Goldan Dawn criminal organisation Michaloliakos was released from prison
03.05.2024
ABTTF President: “The court’s decision to release Nikolaos Michaloliakos, the leader of the criminal organisation Golden Dawn, despite the prosecutor’s objection and no remorse for what I did, is a situation that hurts the public conscience and is alarming and unacceptable for our country Greece.’’ The racist Golden...
Visit to Athens from our primary school pupils
26.04.2024
ABTTF President: “Why were primary school children accepted by the Ministry of Defence and not the Ministry of Education? Could this be a veiled message towards the Turkish community?” Pupils at Turkish primary schools in the villages of Polianthos (Narlıköy), Asomatos (Bulatköy), Passos (Basırlıköy), Organi (Hemetli),...
Prime Minister Mitsotakis: “We take the recommendations in the annual report on the rule of law very seriously”
16.04.2024
ABTTF President: “Our country continues to violate our community’s freedom of association by persistently not executing the judgments regarding our three associations in the Bekir-Ousta and Others Group of Cases of the European Court of Human Rights for the past 16 years. Our country must prove that it fully respects the principle of th...
Minister for Health Georgiadis: “The EP’s resolution on the rule of law is full of lies”
10.04.2024
ABTTF President: “The most striking example of the systematic violation of the rule of law and the politicisation of the higher judiciary in our country is that our country has ignored the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights regarding the associations of our community and has not executed them for the past 16 years. ‘The gov...
Androulakis: “We and our children deserve to live in a European country where human rights are universally respected.”
09.04.2024
ABTTF President: “Our children, who belong to our community whose existence is denied in our country, are deprived of the right to learn their native language, Turkish, which is one of the most basic human rights. We want Androulakis to see the injustices that our children in our community suffer in the field of education and encourage the go...
Report from non-governmental organisations in Greece to the European Commission on the gradual deterioration of the rule of law in the country
04.04.2024
ABTTF President: “Now someone’s true colours have been shown! The government must take into account the warnings and criticisms coming from within the country and from Europe regarding this negative situation regarding the rule of law, which has seriously damaged our country’s reputation in the international arena, and as an old m...
Statements from Stylianidis regarding education
03.04.2024
ABTTF President: “We hope and would like Stylianidis, who is also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, to refer to the issues our community is faced with in the field of education in his speeches and statements as a Member of Parliament of our region and to convince the government in resolving these issues’&r...
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