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Statements from ND Deputy Syrigos that distort the facts about the Turkish community in Western Thrace
21.06.2024
ABTTF President: “With the votes we casted for our FEP Party in the European Parliament (EP) elections, we made our party the first party in the prefectures of Rodopi and Xanthi, clearly showing that we are ‘Turks’ to everyone who denies our identity, like Syrigos, and proved our presence in our region. No matter how much Syrigos ...
FEP Party made history again in the European Parliament elections!
10.06.2024
ABTTF President: “With the great success of our party in the EP elections, our community delivered a very strong message to those who govern our country, saying ‘We exist, and we are Turks!’ to those who persistently deny our existence and identity in our country. I wholeheartedly congratulate our FEP Party, which made history for...
Here is justice in our country: Western Thrace Fenerbahçe Association is being dissolved!
30.05.2024
ABTTF President: “In the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases, we said that unless the ECtHR judgments were executed, similar cases would come before the ECtHR. Unfortunately, we were right. In circumstances where the ECtHR judgments regarding the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases have not been executed by Greece for the past 16 years, t...
Stylianidis claimed that Türkiye’s established policy is to try to instrumentalise the Turkish community in Western Thrace
23.05.2024
ABTTF President: “It is obvious that the words used by Stylianidis which are inconsistent with the facts, do not benefit the positive agenda and dialogue efforts that have gained momentum between our country and our motherland after the recent high-level talks. The facts that are confirmed by the numbers is that the FEP Party became the first...
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...
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...
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...
Foreign Minister Gerapetritis: “Muslim minorities in (Western) Thrace have a special participation and full rights”
08.03.2024
ABTTF President: “Our country, which usurped our educational and religious autonomy guaranteed by the treaties with various laws and practices, is closing our autonomous primary schools in Western Thrace and ignoring our demand for bilingual Turkish kindergartens. We request our country to immediately abandon the perception discourse that is ...
Stylianidis continued his discourse distorting the facts about the Turkish community in Western Thrace
20.02.2024
ABTTF President: “Stylianidis once again distorted the facts about our community, ignored the systematic violation of our community’s rights, educational and religious autonomy for years, and tried to present it as if there it is something that does not exist’’. New Democracy (ND) Party Rodopi MP Evripidis Stylianidis hos...
Independent Topsidis was elected as Governor in the second round
17.10.2023
ABTTF President: ‘‘As the Turkish community in Western Thrace, the voting potential of our community in the local elections was clearly understood, and as the Turkish community in the region, we demonstrated our strength in the local elections. No one can ignore, deny or underestimate the existence of the Turkish community in the region...
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