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Demonstration against the closure of Turkish minority schools in Western Thrace
29.09.2016
Halit Habip Oğlu: “We demand an immediate repeal of the decision that foresees the closure of minority schools that have special statutes, violating the right of education of the kids belonging to Turkish Minority of Western Thrace.” Following the decision of the Head of Education at Eastern Macedonia and Thrace region of Greece Panayotis Kerama...
9 more Turkish minority schools are closing down in Western Thrace!
30.08.2016
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: “This decision taken unilaterally by Greek authorities constitutes another blow to the educational autonomy of the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace.” Following the decision of the Head of Education at Eastern Macedonia and Thrace region of Greece Panayotis Keramaris, 9 more Turkish minority schools are closing...
Meeting initiated by the Greek Foreign Minister Kotzias on the economic development of Western Thrace
30.06.2016
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: “Such one-sided meetings, to which the representatives of the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace living in the region und knowing best the situation there are not invited to attend, can never help the economic development of Western Thrace.” The Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs Nikos Kotzias hosted an enlarged...
Polis raid to two branches of Western Thrace Minority University Graduates Association
09.05.2016
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: “The main reason of the raids conducted to WTMUGA is to hinder the minority children to learn our mother tongue Turkish.” Two branches of Western Thrace Minority University Graduates Association (WTMUGA), which is one of the most important associations of the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace in Greece, in Kom...
Instruction from the Director of the State Education Department of Eastern Macedonia-Thrace to ban Turkish
29.03.2016
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: “The autonomy of minority schools is intended to be forgotten!” The Director of the State Education Department of Eastern Macedonia-Thrace Panayiotis Keramaris has banned the use of Turkish by teachers from the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace in their communications. According to the daily Gündem, a letter wa...
We are entirely standing alongside our elected Mufti of Xanthi Ahmet Mete!
08.02.2016
As the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF), we have regrettably learned through the press release of 6 February 2016 by the Office of our elected Mufti of Xanthi that an Imam, who is also a friend of family and relative of Mufti Ahmet Mete, was forced during a visit to Mufti’s house on Thursday evening, 28 January 2016, by masked a...
Hate-motivated violence against the Turkish minority of Western Thrace included in the OSCE-ODIHR’s 2014 Hate Crime Reporting
17.11.2015
The hate-motivated attacks on the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace in Greece during 2014 were covered by the 2014 Hate Crime Reporting that was released by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE on 16 November 2016 marking the International Day for Toleranc...
Greece further ignores the religious autonomy of the Turkish minority of Western Thrace
20.10.2015
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: “We call on Greece to end immediately its policies and practices intending to eradicate the religious autonomy of our minority” Within the framework of the “Lifelong Learning” programmes having been carried out under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs, an internationa...
Outrageous attack on the New Mosque in the Greek city of Komotini!
16.10.2015
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: “The Turkish minority of Western Thrace has been living in the region for centuries and is a part of Greece” The New Mosque (Yeni Cami) belonging to the Turkish minority of Western Thrace in the Greek city of Komotini was attacked on 10 October 2015. According to the daily Millet, an unidentified person or perso...
Eight more primary schools belonging to the Turkish minority of Western Thrace in Greece to be closed down
07.09.2015
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: “Through the Greek Education Ministry’s last unilat-eral decision representing an immediate impact on the education of the minority children, the autonomous structure of the Turkish minority of Western Thrace in the field of educa-tion has once more been ignored” The Greek Ministry of Culture, Education and Reli...
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