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The Turkish community was ignored again during the visit of Prime Minister Mitsotakis to Western Thrace!
16.01.2023
ABTTF President: “We are calling out to Mitsotakis, the prime minister of our country: Real equality will be achieved by the state with the restoration of our educational and religious autonomy as one of the two peoples living in the region! Just as we made use of our citizenship rights on 29 January 1988, as a result of our patience in the f...
A new example of the denial of the Turkish identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace in Greece
17.11.2022
ABTTF President: “In general, state authorities have been voicing the claim that there are no ‘‘Turks’’ in our country for years. The people of our country have been so brainwashed by the discourse in politics and media that denies our Turkish identity that even non-governmental organisations have come to the point of ...
Lawsuit for the cancellation of the Western Thrace Fenerbahçe Association
24.10.2022
ABTTF President: “Kakoulidis, whom is someone from our region, harms the peaceful coexistence culture in our region by portraying it as if there is an issue. First of all, Kakoulidis should act responsibly as the head of a non-governmental organisation, and should encourage friendship and brotherhood in our region, not othering, in his statem...
Our country continues its practices that violate the religious autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
20.10.2022
As ABTTF, we underline that the law dated 29 July 2022, which aims to completely eliminate our religious autonomy, is null and void for the Turkish community in Western Thrace, and we call on our country to comply with the treaties to which it is a party regulating our religious autonomy and to immediately end its unilateral practices on the mufti ...
Xanthi Deputy Hüseyin Zeybek was threatened with death on live television
16.09.2022
ABTTF President: “As the representative of Western Thrace Turks living in Europe and as ABTTF, we strongly condemn the public death threat of our deputy Hüseyin Zeybek. This grave incident has taken place in our country as a result of the increasing hate speech against the Turkish community in Western Thrace in politics and media and the...
Western Thrace Turks elected the new mufti in Xanthi
09.09.2022
As ABTTF, we sincerely congratulate Mustafa Trampa, who has been elected as the new mufti of Xanthi and wish him outstanding success in this important duty that we believe he will fulfil properly, and we offer him our support. The Turkish community in Western Thrace held elections during Friday prayers on 9 September 2022, using its treaty right...
Double standards against the Turkish community in Western Thrace regarding freedom of association in our country
01.09.2022
ABTTF President: “While an association titled ‘Armenian’ can legally operate in our region and organise an event in cooperation with the municipality, our associations bearing the word ‘Turkish’ are being closed down. When it comes to the Western Thrace Turks in our country, freedom of association is immediately shelve...
We strongly condemn the racist attack on a Turkish youth in Xanthi!
29.08.2022
As the Presidium and whole family of ABTTF, we strongly condemn this racist and heinous attack on our youth and extend our best wishes to him and his family. Racist and hate-motivated attacks targeting the Turkish community in Western Thrace and its members threaten the atmosphere of peace in our region and harm the peaceful coexistence. We call on...
Greek MEP Kefalogiannis again ignored the ethnic identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace in his question to the European Commission
28.07.2022
ABTTF President: “Kefalogiannis claims that there is a Muslim minority in Thrace, while Istanbul, Gökçeada (Imbros) and Bozcaada (Tenedos) have Greek national minorities according to Lausanne. Kefalogiannis cannot not have known that the Treaty of Lausanne contains the phrase ‘non-Muslim minorities’. If he says that th...
Our religious autonomy will be officially abolished under the claim of modernising our mufti offices
26.07.2022
ABTTF President: “With this draft law, the institution of the Mufti office, which is managed by the Minority with its own resources, will be completely abolished, and the mufti offices will be turned into state offices under the control and direction of the state in terms of their organisational structure and functioning. It is not possible...
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