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New education law further destroys the educational autonomy of the Turkish minority of Western Thrace
27.08.2015
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: “The claim of our homeland Greece that the new education law has been adopted in November 2014 after prior consultation with the minority does not comport with reality. Quite the contrary, the real aim is to enhance through this law the state authority and control over the minority education” The Association of ...
Two obscene attacks on a mosque and a masjid on the same day in Komotini!
17.04.2015
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: Since both of the attacks were carried out on the same day and at the same hours, it reinforces the suspicion that these were a threat-oriented provocation A mosque and a masjid belonging to the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace in Komotini, Greece were attacked. According to the daily Birlik, the Mahmutağa mos...
Hate motivated attacks targeted against the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace included in the OSCE-ODIHR’s 2013 Hate Crime Reporting
28.11.2014
The hate motivated attacks targeted against the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace in Greece dur-ing 2013, which were reported to the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) by the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) in April 2014, appeared in th...
Another blow to the educational autonomy of the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace!
17.11.2014
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: As 240 Imams Law damages our religious autonomy from the basis now with the last draft bill submitted to the Greek Parliament, they are trying to harm the basic structure of our educational autonomy. We will not accept this. The draft law that was prepared by the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs of Gr...
Turkish signs in a toy store in Western Thrace were asked to be removed
19.09.2014
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: “The efforts to deny insistently the existence of the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace by some groups in Greece will benefit nobody and also will damage the peace and security environment in the region as well” With the statement issued by the movement called “Thrace Citizens Initiative”, it was asked to be re...
The problems of the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace once again on Dolomiten newspaper
27.08.2014
Dolomiten newspaper representative Hatto Schmidt, who attended together with the representatives of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), European Association of Daily Newspapers in Minority and Regional Languages (MIDAS), Dan minority in Germany and German minority in Denmark the fact-finding visit to Western Thrace between 19-22 Ju...
Judgments concerning Greece
11.08.2014
On 31 July 2014, the European Court of Human Rights has notified in writing the following nine judgments concerning Azerbaijan, Estonia, Greece, and Ukraine. The judgments concerning Greece are: F.H. v. Greece (no. 78456/11) The applicant, F.H., is an Iranian national who was born in 1987. The case concerned the holding of the applicant...
The observations of MIDAS Vice President Brezigar about fact-finding visit on Primorski Dnevnik newspaper
14.07.2014
The Vice President of the European Association of Daily Newspapers in Minority and Regional Languages (MIDAS) Bojan Brezigar who attended to the fact-finding visit to Western Thrace between 19-22 June organized by the partnership with the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe(ABTTF), Western Thrace Minority University Graduates Association...
The observations about fact-finding the visit is on Hungarian Newspaper Bihari Naplo
11.07.2014
Bihari Naplo newspaper representative Istvan Pap from the Hungarian Minority in Romania and the member of the European Association of Daily Newspapers in Minority and Regional Languages (MIDAS) who attended to the fact-finding visit to Western Thrace between 19-22 June organized by the partnership with the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in...
German minority newspaper in Romania wrote Western Thrace
10.07.2014
Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung für Rumänien(ADZ) newspaper representative Ivan Adelaida from the German Minority in Romania and the member of the European Association of Daily Newspapers in Minority and Regional Languages (MIDAS) who attended to the fact-finding visit to Western Thrace between 19-22 June organized by the partnership with the Fede...
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