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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...
Turkic minorities and communities in Romania and Bulgaria and the Turkish community in Western Thrace in Greece
15.05.2024
ABTTF President and TAG Spokesman: ‘‘The main point is a well-intentioned approach! There is no reason why the current issues cannot be solved the day our country recognises our existence, our identity and sees us as real wealth! Without good will, issues are not solved, new ones are added to existing ones every day. It is up to us to f...
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,...
Those who do not solve the building issue at Xanthi Turkish Secondary School continue to ignore us
07.05.2024
ABTTF President: “The fact that no solution has been found to the ongoing issue in our school in Xanthi is a clear summary of the perception and attitude towards our community! The rulers of our country have been deaf to our demands”. Following the protests against double-shift schooling at the Xanthi Turkish Minority Secondary and H...
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...
Our votes are for the FEP Party in the EP elections on 9 June!
29.04.2024
As the representative of the Western Thrace Turks living in Europe and as the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe(ABTTF), we call on all Western Thrace Turks who have the right to vote living inside and outside our country to vote in the EP elections to be held in our country on 9 June in order to make the presence of our community be stro...
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),...
The Deputy Director of Education of the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace ignored the educational autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
25.04.2024
ABTTF President: “It is our country that does not comply with the treaties by violating our educational autonomy, which was guaranteed by the Treaty of Lausanne and functioned well from 1923 to 1977, with unilateral laws and practices! If our country restores our educational autonomy, all existing issues will be solved by themselves.’&r...
Western Thrace Turkish delegation at the OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting
23.04.2024
The Western Thrace Turkish delegation, consisting of ABTTF and WTMUGA, pointed out that, as an important indicator of the rule of law, the ECtHR judgments regarding the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases have not been executed for the past 16 years and that the organisations and leading representatives of the Turkish community in Western Thrace ...
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