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4 more Turkish primary schools are closing in Western Thrace in the next school year!
25.07.2022
In the 2022-2023 school year, 4 more primary schools belonging to the Turkish community in Western Thrace will be closed. According to the decision taken by the Ministry of Education, due to the fact that the number of students is less than 9, the primary schools located in Ergani (Yardımlı) and Kikidion (Tuzçuköy) in the province of Ro...
Is it desired to change the population balance in Western Thrace to the detriment of the Turkish community?
19.07.2022
ABTTF President: “While the racist Article 19 practice is still alive in the memory, the efforts to create a false perception with the suggestions mentioned in the article will once again deeply shake the trust of our community in its country.” An article published on the local xanthinews.gr news website states that the populat...
ABTTF attended the funeral ceremony of late Mufti of Xanthi Ahmet Mete
18.07.2022
Thousands of Western Thrace Turks accompanied our Mufti of Xanthi Ahmet Mete who passed away at the age of 57 in his last journey. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) attended on 15 July 2022 in Xanthi the funeral ceremony of our Mufti of Xanthi Ahmet Mete who passed away on 14 July 2022. The ceremony, which was attended by ...
Turkish community in Western Thrace was ignored again during Prime Minister Mitsotakis’ visit to Komotini!
12.07.2022
ABTTF President: “We witnessed that our Prime Minister, who did not meet with the elected representatives of our community during his visit to Komotini, once again ignored our issues by pursuing the official policy of state denial of our community’’. Our country Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited Komotini...
Everyone should be treated equally in the implementation of development policy; no discrimination should be made!
07.07.2022
ABTTF President: “The newly established Development Organisation of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace should take into account the Turkish community in Western Thrace in all the studies to be carried out on the implementation of the development policy in our region, and Turkish producers and enterprises should not be excluded in the distribution o...
The restoration of the Didymoteicho Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Mosque will finally start after 5 years!
28.06.2022
ABTTF President: “Five years after the fire, we are of course hopeful that the restoration work on the mosque will finally begin. Stating that the restoration has to be included in the Recovery Fund due to the fact that the project budget is very large, the Minister’s statement shows the shame that has been going on for five years in th...
The ECtHR judgments regarding the Bekir-Ousta and Others Group of Cases are still pending to be executed in their 14th anniversary
28.03.2022
ABTTF President: “We know that the ECtHR judgments are not executed for political reasons, not legal ones. We now demand that the Committee of Ministers initiate the infringement procedure against Greece in June 2022 as a result of the examination.” The judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) regarding the closure of ...
We condemn in the strongest terms the destruction of the Turkish cemetery in Xanthi!
16.03.2022
ABTTF President: “The destruction of Ottoman tombs and tombstones by the municipal machinery is a great disrespect to those lying there and a blatant attack on our cultural heritage. With this latest action, which we absolutely do not condone, intolerance towards the historical monuments from the Ottoman heritage and negative attitude towards...
An investigation has been launched into the march organized by the Xanthi Turkish Union!
10.02.2022
ABTTF President: “The launch of an investigation after 7 months of the democratic march organised by the Xanthi Turkish Union, which has been struggling for 39 years, is a clear continuation of our country’s policies of intimidation and suppression of the Turkish community in Western Thrace. As ABTTF, we will continue to support the Xan...
An anti-Islam poster was put up opposite to the historic Çelebi Sultan Mehmet Mosque in the town of Didymoteicho!
01.02.2022
ABTTF President: “We strongly condemn the evil mentality that planned to put up an anti-Islam poster opposite to the historic Çelebi Sultan Mehmet Mosque in the town of Didymoteicho. Unfortunately, this attack is a fundamental indicator of how widespread hate speech and Islamophobia is in our country and of a fascistic view’&rs...
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