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Closure is announced for another 12 minority schools in Western Thrace
04.03.2013
ABTTF President Halit Habipoğlu: The Greek Government should take into the autonomous status of the Western Thrace Turkish minority in terms of education hence, should act in conformity with it Greek Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs has decided upon a temporary closure of 12 minority schools, which belong to the Wes...
FUEN President addressed EC Vice-President Viviane Reding on the issue of preschool education in Western Thrace
06.02.2013
Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) President Hans Heinrich Hansen, in his letter to European Commission (EC) Vice-FUEN President addressed EC Vice-President Viviane Reding on the issue of preschool education in Western Thrace Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) President Hans Heinrich Hansen, in his letter to European Comm...
The Greek Parliament adopted a controversial bill on the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace
06.02.2013
The legislative regulation on the status of Muslim preachers in Western Thrace is a violation to the right to freedom of religion and conscience Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) regrets the adoption of a legislative regulation on the status of Muslim preachers in Western Thrace by the Greek parliament on January 16, 2013. The...
Situation in Western Thrace
24.01.2013
EMISCO is deeply concerned by the situation in Western Thrace Region of Greece. Islam in Greece has been an old phenomenon which goes back to the Ottoman control of the region. Survival of the Muslim identity across the country was either protected at the bilateral level between the Ottoman Empire and Greece, e.g. the 1881 Treaty of Istanbul and th...
A controversial bill with additional amendments, in others words “240 Imams Law” has been adopted by the Greek Parliament
17.01.2013
ABTTF President Halit Habipoğlu: The adoption of the bill has once again proven Greece ignore the will and presence of the Western Thrace Turkish Minority The Law 3536/2007 together the additional adjustments, named as “240 Imams Law” by the Western Thrace Turkish Minority, has been voted on 16 January 2013 and adopted with overwhelming majorit...
Golden Dawn supporters attack the car of Turkish Consul General in Komotini
10.01.2013
ABTTF President Halit Habipoğlu: We strongly condemn the attack on Turkish Consul General in Komotini, Osman İlhan Şener, and call on the Greek Government to take immediate measures against the Golden Dawn threat The supporters of the far-right political party Golden Dawn attacked the official car of Turkish Consul General Osman İlhan Şener duri...
Human Rights Without Frontiers Int’l (HRWF) Director Willy Fautre released his report on Western Thrace Turkish Minority
04.12.2012
Director of Human Rights Without Frontiers International Int’l (HRWF) delivered a report named “Ethnic Turks in Greece, a Muslim Minority” following his mission to Western Thrace along with a European human rights delegation including Hans Hainrich Hansen, President of Federal Union of European Nationalities and François Alfonsi, Member of the Euro...
In Echinos, 20 Muslim mothers challenge the law denying their children pre-school education both in Turkish and Greek Bilingual Turkish-Greek kindergartens are a big issue for the Muslim ethnic Turkish minority
24.10.2012
HRWF (24.10.2012) - Twenty mothers of Echinos (Thrace, Xanthi Prefecture) belonging to the Muslim ethnic Turkish minority[i] are openly challenging Law 3518/2006 introducing compulsory school education from the age of five because the local Greek educational authorities have repeatedly rejected their requests for opening a Greek-Turkish kindergarte...
Muslims of Turkish origin discriminated against in North-Eastern Greece
23.10.2012
A human rights fact-finding mission accompanied by European deputy François Alfonsi highlights structural human rights problems and recommends to the Greek Government a constructive dialogue with the said community HRWF (22.10.2012) - "Muslims of Turkish heritage who number about 140,000-150,000 people[i] in Thrace (North-Eastern Greece) are dis...
Principal of the Turkish Minority Primary School in Echinos (Şahin) dismissed from duty
09.10.2012
ABTTF President Halit Habipoğlu: The Greek Government must acknowledge the right to education in mother language of the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace Because he had admitted all those children to classes, who were not enrolled in the Turkish Minority Primary School in Echinos (Şahin) village on the ground that they had not attended a public...
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