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The delegation of Western Thrace Turks payed a visit to Strasbourg
18.09.2019
Greece has not been implementing the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for 11 years on the cases brought by the associations whose activities are not allowed due to their names which include the word “Turkish”. On 17 September 2019, in the visit to Strasbourg, the delegation of Western Thrace Turks raised...
Video by ABTTF on religious freedoms of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
15.08.2019
Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) conveys the current events and the latest developments occurred in Western Thrace related to the Turkish community in Western Thrace to the world public opinion through the videos made in English. At the same time, through these videos, it is aimed to better present the customs and traditions of ...
Parallel report by ABTTF on the US 2018 Report on International Religious Freedom: Greece
23.07.2019
In its parallel report, ABTTF cited Greece’s problems in the area of religious freedom of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and called on Greece to stop immediately interfering with the religious autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and to fully respect its religious freedom. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in...
Western Thrace Turks participated at the FUEN 2019 Congress
17.06.2019
President of ABTTF, Halit Habip Oğlu was elected as the Vice President of FUEN for the third time at the FUEN Board of Delegates, held within the framework of the congress where the Turkish community in Western Thrace represented by ABTTF. Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) participated at the 64th annual congress of the ...
UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues holds its first regional forum in Brussels
08.05.2019
In the regional forum where the right to education of minorities was discussed, the Western Thrace Turks conveyed the problems in the minority schools’ education system. Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF), participated at the 1st Regional Forum on Minority Issues held on 6-7 May 2019 in Brussels, for the first time, by Pr...
ABTTF attended the annual meeting of FUEN Education Working Group
08.05.2019
Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) participated at the annual meeting of the Education Working Group of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), held on 6-8 May 2019 at the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels. At the meeting held in parallel to the first European Regional Forum on Minority Issues organised by ...
Western Thrace Turkish delegation attended the OSCE meeting on freedom of religion or belief
03.04.2019
The Western Thrace Turkish delegation, consisted of representatives of ABTTF and WTMUGA, expressed the Greece’s interferences aimed at abolishing the religious autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and the judicial proceedings against the elected Muftis. Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) and Western Thrace ...
Parallel report by ABTTF to the Greece 2018 Human Rights Report
29.03.2019
In its parallel report, ABTTF expressed the injustices and problems experienced by the Turkish community in Western Thrace. Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) has prepared a parallel report in response to the statements related to the Turkish community in Western Thrace in the Greece 2018 Human Rights Report published by the Un...
All the world should make a joint stand against Islamophobia on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination!
21.03.2019
21 March International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is celebrated with many events in worldwide with the motto “Let’s fight against racism”. The United Nations declared 21 March as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in 1966 and declared this year’s theme as “Mitigatin...
ABTTF and EFA co-organized a conference on education at the European Parliament
20.03.2019
Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) organized a joint conference at the European Parliament (EP) in Brussels on March 20, 2019 with the European Free Alliance (EFA) which has a political group within the European Parliament. Conference with the theme “Fundamental Problems in Education Facing Minorities in Europe: Comparing Th...
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