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Greece disregards the principles of democracy and the rule of law by denying the Turkish identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
04.06.2021
ABTTF President: “The article of Stylianidis in Estia is actually a summary of the overview of state and representative governments and politics regarding the Turkish community in Western Thrace in Greece. This mentality is the obstacle with respect to the denial of the status and rights of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and not exec...
MEP Kefalogiannis sent a letter of complaint to the EP President about the webinar organised by ABTTF
03.06.2021
ABTTF President: “Due to this mentality that disregards the principles of democracy and the rule of law, our associations with the word Turkish in their names are dissolved and new ones are not registered” European Parliament MEP Manolis K. Kefalogiannis (EPP-Christian Democrats) sent a letter to EP President David Sassoli on 1 June ...
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu visited Western Thrace
31.05.2021
ABTTF President: “As stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of our motherland, we as Western Thrace Turks want our rights and freedoms not to be politically instrumentalised in our country and we want to solve our problems in dialogue with the official authorities of our country.” Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Minister of Foreign ...
Greek Prime Minister imposes identity on Turkish community in Western Thrace
21.05.2021
ABTTF President: “We condemn the statements of our country’s Prime Minister Mitsotakis who ignores the Turkish community in Western Thrace and denies our Turkish identity. We call on our country which claims to be the cradle of democracy to immediately cease its policy of imposing identity on us and to respect our freedom to express our...
We are Turks today as we were Turks for our country in the past!
11.05.2021
ABTTF President: “Since the 1970s, our country, which has imposed an identity on us by requiring the use of the word ‘Muslim’, does not allow us to define ourselves as ‘Turks’ in disregard of the most basic human rights and denies our Turkish identity. We have been living in this land as Turks for centuries and today w...
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey Yavuz Selim Kıran visited Western Thrace
07.05.2021
ABTTF President: “Minorities in the two countries should be considered as an element of richness, not as a threat to their countries, and should be seen as bridge-builders in improving the relations between the two countries. As the Turkish community in Western Thrace, we want to establish a dialogue with the rulers and authorities of our cou...
Greek authorities know no bounds in discriminating against the Turkish community in Western Thrace!
30.04.2021
ABTTF President: “It is a clear discrimination that Turkish teachers are not given appointments to get vaccinated. The health of teachers and students is at stake during the pandemic period. The authorities of our country should immediately solve this problem, and our teachers at our two schools should be able to get their vaccinations as soo...
The elections for the school boards in the schools of the Turkish community in Western Thrace have been postponed again
21.04.2021
ABTTF President: “We call on the authorities of our country to respond to our requests regarding the school board elections in our schools and to immediately end the deadlock approach that it insists on.” The elections for the school boards in the schools with autonomous status belonging to the Turkish community in Western Thrace hav...
Rodopi MP Haritou alleged that Turkey is instrumentalising the issue of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
21.04.2021
ABTTF President: “Just as our country indicates the demands of the Greek Orthodox minority in our motherland, our motherland, which is signatory to the Treaty of Lausanne raises the problems we are experiencing. There is nothing wrong with that or to be afraid of it.” In a statement he delivered with respect to the meeting between th...
The Turkish community in Western Thrace expects its demands regarding the elections for school boards to be met
14.04.2021
ABTTF President: “We support the demand of the Union of School Boards of the Western Thrace Minority Schools and want the mandates of the school boards in our schools to be extended until the end of this year if the elections cannot be held due to the pandemic conditions.” The Turkish community in Western Thrace continues to re...
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