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Greek Prime Minister Tsipras made statements about Mufti offices and foundations during his visit to Western Thrace
10.05.2019
Halit Habip Oğlu, “As the Turkish community in Western Thrace, we demand that the Greek government should immediately put an end to its unilateral practices that would undermine our right to religious autonomy guaranteed by international treaties and engage into a direct dialogue with us in resolving our problems.” Greek Prime Minist...
Hate motivated attacks against the Turkish community in Western Thrace addressed in the OSCE 2017 Hate Crime Data
19.11.2018
The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) published on 16 November on the International Day for Tolerance the 2017 Hate Crime Data. The hate motivated attacks in 2017 targeting the Turkish community in Western Thrace, Greece are also included in the 2017 data. ...
Obtaining operating licence regarding historical mosques and masjids belonging to the Turkish community in Western Thrace is made to be compulsory
08.11.2018
Halit Habip Oğlu: “We call on our country Greece to end immediately its interventions in the religious autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace which was granted by the treaties and to fully respect its freedom of religion” The Greek Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs has issued a circular on religious communities’...
Elected Mufti of Komotini İbrahim Şerif was called to bear testimony once again!
02.11.2018
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” İbrahim Şerif, Mufti of Komotini elected by the Western Thrace Turkish community in Greece and President of the Consultative ...
Imprisonment and fine for Koray Hasan on the grounds of an accusation for an unauthorized renovation!
03.10.2018
Koray Hasan, Ex-President of Komotini Turkish Youth Union (GTGB) founded in 1928, has been sentenced to 6 months of imprisonment and 5 thousand euros fine by the Court of First Instance with Single Judge on the grounds that he carried out allegedly an unauthorized renovation in the clubhouse of the Union. Koray Hasan who served as the president ...
Boycotts for a better education in the Turkish minority schools in Western Thrace
27.09.2018
Halit Habip Oğlu: “As ABTTF, we support the struggle and decision on boycott launched by the parents to ensure a better education for their children belonging to the Turkish community in Western Thrace. We believe that the Greek textbook chaos in Turkish minority primary schools certainly should be resolved in line with the demands of the parents a...
Religious autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace is being abolished!
03.09.2018
Halit Habip Oğlu: “It is targeted with the recent presidential decree that mufti offices are turned into state institutions, and the religious autonomy guaranteed by international treaties of the Turkish community in Western Thrace is being completely abolished” The draft presidential decree, which foresees restructuring of mufti offices with au...
Rejection to Xanthi Turkish Union by the Court of Appeal of Thrace!
10.07.2018
Habip Oğlu: “Our trust in justice in our country, Greece, diminishes more in time. However, this decision is rather political not legal, we all know this” Following adoption of the law 4491/2017, the Thrace Court of Appeal rejected the application of Xanthi Turkish Union for the return of its legal entity. In its judgment of 22 June 2018, the T...
Turkish community in Western Thrace demands bilingual minority kindergartens
18.04.2018
Halit Habip Oğlu: “We call on our country Greece to act no longer according to political calculations, but rather to establish a permanent structure which will ensure the smooth transition of the children belonging to the Turkish community in Western Thrace from kindergartens to bilingual primary and secondary education within the autonomous minori...
Conference by Xanthi Turkish Union in the 10th year of ECtHR judgment
02.04.2018
Established in 1927, Xanthi Turkish Union(İTB), of which signboard was removed in 1983 and which was dissolved in 1986 on the ground that it had the word “Turkish” in its name, organized a conference in the tenth year of the judgment of 2008 of the European Court of Human Rights(ECtHR), which convicted that Greece violated the right to freedom of a...
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