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Greek Court of Cassation admits the appeal of the Turkish minority association
24.01.2012
The Greek Court of Cassation admitted the appeal of the South Evros Minority Educational and Cultural Association about the dismissal of a request for registration of the association due to the word “minority” in its title. The Court held on 13 January 2012 that the case on the registration of the association was going to be handled again before th...
Mehmet Derdiman resigns from teaching
21.10.2011
Mehmet Derdiman, principal of the Kurcalı Turkish Minority Elementary School and President of the Thessalonica Private Pedagogy Institute Association, resigned from his duties and retired from teaching. Mehmet Derdiman issued his letter of resignation on 18 October 2011 to the Coordination of Minority Education and explained the relieving of his d...
Request for registration of the Evrenköy Minority Culture Folklore Education Association dismissed
18.08.2011
The Komotini Civil Court of First Instance dismissed the request for registration of the Evrenköy Minority Culture Folklore Education Association. According to a news from the periodical Rodop Rüzgarı, the Komotini Civil Court of First Instance dismissed on 13 April 2011 the request for registration of EM 344/27.10.2010 of the association on th...
Stoxos targets the Turkish Consul General in Komotini, Greece
08.08.2011
The daily Stoxos published in its issue of 4 August 2011 a news entitled “Our eyes are on you” about Mustafa Sarnıç, Turkish Consul General in Komotini, Greece and wrote that the Consul General was travelling by an armoured car throughout Western Thrace. President Habipoğlu: Stoxos sowing seeds of hostility in the region Regarding the news p...
Unfortunate Statement by Piraeus Metropolitan Serafim
11.07.2011
Piraeus Metropolitan Serafim has criticized Anna Diamandopoulou, Minister of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs, for the prospect employment of 250 religion teachers as officials in mosques in Western Thrace. According to Gündem, Serafim issued a written statement accusing Minister Diamandopoulou for forgetting their national his...
Minority schools are going to be merged!
18.04.2011
On 11 April 2011, the Greek Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs an-nounced that in an attempt to increase the education, the schools in Thrace were going to be re-structured. According to the statement on the website of the Ministry, in order to accelerate the process for incensement of the quality of education and to ens...
Atrocity in the village of Ircan!
04.03.2011
On 2 March 2011, the sheep pen of Fikret Fikret in the Ircan village in Komotini, Greece was at-tacked by an unidentified person or persons. The assailants killed thirty of sheep in the pen.* According to the news published in the newspaper Birlik, the herdsman Sali Fikret stated that the throat of the sheep had been cut, but none of them had been ...
PM tours Thrace, visits Muslim minority village
23.02.2011
Prime Minister George Papandreou, who arrived for a tour of the extreme northeastern province of Thrace on Friday, pledged to settle the problems faced by the local Muslim minority. On Friday he visited the village of Dimario near the Greek-Bulgarian borders, where he met with local people. This is the first time a Greek prime minister has ...
Tense moments between the TV Frans 3 team and people in the village of Ilıca(Thermes)
29.09.2010
On 28 September 2010, there were tense moments in the village of Ilıca (Thermes) in Xanthi, Greece when the French public television TV Frans 3 with the President of “Xanthi Pomac Association” İmam Ahmet filmed Ilıca Minority School and Ilıca Mosque without prior information or permission. The daily newspaper of the Turkish minority of Western Thra...
Muslim cemetery of Pospos and Ifestos districts in Komotini, Greece desecrated
16.08.2010
Vandals desecrated the Muslim cemetery of Pospos(Poşpoş) and Ifestos(Kalkanca) districts in the northern city of Komotini, Greece late on Friday, on 13 August 2010. The unidentified assailants destroyed more than twenty gravestones in the cemetery, and according to the the news of daily Birlik, they spray painted “The Consulate General, Get Out” an...
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