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Lawsuit against the Elected Mufti of Komotini İbrahim Şerif
09.03.2018
Halit Habip Oğlu: “We want actions and practices aiming to suppress and intimidate with groundless accusations the muftis elected by the Turkish community in Western Thrace itself terminated immediately.” A lawsuit was filed against İbrahim Şerif, Elected Mufti of Komotini in Greece and Chairman of the Western Thrace Turkish Minority Consultati...
Islam and Sharia Panel with appointed muftis in Komotini
07.03.2018
Halit Habip Oğlu: “Our Country Greece again goes in its own way, implements the scenario it previously prepared, actual objective is to abolish religious freedom completely! On 28 February 2018, a panel was held in Komotini with the title “Muftiships in Thrace and Sharia”. The panel was organized by Islam Religious Instructors Association which ...
The Case of Xanthi Turkish Union was heard at Court of Appeal of Thrace
13.02.2018
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: “Regarding the case of Xanthi Turkish Union, which was turned out to be a political problem, we demand from Greek courts to give decision in compliance with the judgments of European Court of Human Rights” On 9 February 2018, the Court of Appeal of Thrace heard the case regarding the demand for return of officia...
Another blow on religious autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace!
12.01.2018
Halit Habip Oğlu: “As it is in laws adopted related to the educational autonomy and their implementation, the objective is to weaken the foundations of the religious autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace which has been guaranteed by international treaties and eventually abolish completely our religious autonomy based on customary law....
Xanthi Turkish Union litigated for return of its official legal entity
28.12.2017
ABTTF President, Halit Habip Oğlu: “As pre-requisite of being a democratic country, Greece now has to accept calling “Turk” a “Turk” Xanthi Turkish Union which was established as the first association of Western Thrace Turkish community in 1927 and closed in 1986 due to the reason that it has the word “Turkish” in its name has started a legal pr...
Six public kindergartens in the pilot project for the Western Thrace Turkish children announced
20.12.2017
Halit Habip Oğlu: “As the Turkish community in Western Thrace, we demand that our right to education in mother tongue is respected and bilingual minority kindergartens as to have the same status with autonomous minority primary schools are opened.” The six public kindergartens within the framework of the pilot project the villages where the West...
President of our motherland Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Western Thrace
11.12.2017
ABTTF President, Halit Habip Oğlu stated: “With his personal visit to Western Thrace President of our motherland Erdoğan showed everyone that motherland Turkey is a guar-antor for Western Thrace Turks” President of the Turkish Republic, motherland of Western Thrace Turks, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Greece on 7-8 December 2017. Erdoğan who came...
Decision to resume consideration on the cases of Bekir-Ousta group at the Committee of Ministers
08.12.2017
The Committee of Ministers requested information from Greek authorities concerning the possible change in the domestic law after the adoption of the law on 10 October 2017 On 5-7 December 2017, the Council of Europe held the last meeting of the year within the scope of duty of inspecting application of the decisions of the European Court of Hum...
ABTTF attended the panel discussion on “Sharia (Islamic Law)”
29.11.2017
At the panel discussion held in Komotini, application of Sharia to the Turkish community in Western Thrace was addressed. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) participated on 28 November 2017 in the panel discussion on “Application of Sharia (Islamic Law) to the Muslim Citizens in Western Thrace” that was organized by the Kom...
Hate motivated attacks against the Turkish community in Western Thrace addressed in the OSCE 2016 Hate Crime Report
21.11.2017
The hate motivated attacks in 2016 targeted at the Turkish community in Western Thrace, Greece were covered in the 2016 Hate Crime Report released by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). While 41 participating States provided official data to the OSCE ...
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