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Statement by Vasilis considering Western Thrace Turks as national threat
12.09.2017
Halit Habip Oğlu: “We are struggling only for our democratic rights and freedoms against excluding, discriminative and racist state policy which perceives Western Thrace Turks as a threat factor” Vasilis Levendis, President of Central Union Party in Greece, as a response to a question related to election system addressed at the press conference ...
Greece in the U.S. Religious Freedom Report for 2016
16.08.2017
Halit Habip Oğlu: “As ABTTF as we do every year we will prepare a parallel report and we will convey the views of the Western Thrace Turkish community on the issues found deficient or superficial in the U.S. report” International Religious Freedom Report for 2016 prepared annually by the U.S. Secretary of State has been published. International ...
Radical changes are made in educational system in Greece
16.05.2017
Halit Habip Oğlu: “In planned changes in the education system by the Greek government, autonomous structure of the schools belonging to Western Thrace Turks should definitely be taken into consideration and our request for opening bilingual minority kindergartens within the minority system should be fulfilled urgently". Alexis Tsipras, Prime Min...
Warning to Greece by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe
15.03.2017
The Committee of Ministers shall take a second interim decision if Greece does not take a step until September 2017 so as to achieve tangible progress for the implementation of ECtHR judgments The Council of Europe held its first meeting of the year on 7-10 March 2017, in keeping with the supervisory role of the Committee of Ministers on the im...
US 2016 Greece Human Rights Report published
09.03.2017
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: “Although in the report problems of our minority are evaluated shortly and superficially, official state thesis regarding the issues particularly about definition, population and demographic structure of the minority is repeated” The Human Rights Report regarding human rights violations in the countries worldwid...
Permission for Eid prayer in the historical New Mosque (Yeni Cami) in Thessaloniki denied again this year
24.06.2016
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: “No allocation by the Municipality of Thessaloniki of the New Mosque (Yeni Cami) for Eid prayer under the pretext of the ongoing exhibition there has once more revealed that our country Greece is quite far from fulfilling its commitments as regards of freedom of religion and worship.“ The Municipality of Thessal...
Greek Foreign Ministry sources refer to the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace
09.06.2016
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: “Our country Greece should immediately give up its one-sided and fanciful standpoint and respect the freedom of religion and worship of the persons belonging to the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace.” The sources of the Greek Foreign Ministry replied on 8 June 2016 to the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs by ...
National report of Greece and summary of stakeholders’ information within the framework of the UPR 2nd cycle released
25.04.2016
The report containing the summary of information by NHRIs, NGOs and IOs on human records of Greece refers also to the submission by ABTTF The Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), which is a unique process involving a review of the human rights records of all Member States of the United Nations (UN), released the national report ...
Question for written answer on the violation of the freedom of association of the Turkish minority of Western Thrace to the European Commission
19.04.2016
The MEPs, who tabled the written question, underlines Greece persistently refuses to implement the ECtHR judgments. The members of the European Parliament (MEPs) Tatjana Ždanoka (Latvia, the Greens/EFA), Judith Sargentini (Netherlands, the Greens/EFA) and Jordi Sebastià (Spain, the Greens/EFA) tabled a question for written answer entitled “Non-e...
Comprehensive education reform agenda in Greece released
13.01.2016
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: “We urge the Greek government to respect the right to education in mother tongue of the children belonging to our minority and fulfil immediately our minority’s demand for opening bilingual minority nursery schools in Western Thrace” The Greek Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs has launched a ...
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