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Golden Dawn: “If a mosque in Athens is to be built, a front of 100.000 Greeks headed by Golden Dawn will be created” (!)
28.05.2013
ABTTF President Halit Habipoğlu: Among measures to prevent the extremism Golden Dawn spreads throughout the country, the government shall consider options to cut state funding and ban the political party The neo-Nazi political party Golden Dawn opposes to construction of a mosque in Athens. As re-ported by AFP, Golden Dawn party spokesperson Ili...
The Mufti Question is on International Religious Freedom Report for 2012
24.05.2013
ABTTF President: The report echoes Greek state policy while ignoring the minority’s stand on the issue The U.S. Department of State, in its annual report on international religious freedom, reveals the historical Muslim minority living outside of Thrace region of Greece are not given the rights provided by Lausanne Peace Treaty. The report, str...
US critisizes Greece on Human Rights
16.05.2013
U.S. Department of State released Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012 The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour of U.S. Department of State, throughout its report on Greece Country Report on Human Rights Prcetices for 2012, refers to discirimination against and social exclusion caused by restrictions in freedom of Western T...
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks concerns that democracy in Greece is under threat
17.04.2013
The report of Commissioner’s mission to Greece between 28 January and 1 February 2013 has been published. Given the increasing number of hate crimes and the controversial reticence of govern-ment, the democracy in Greece is seriously threatened, describes Muiznieks the situation on the ground in Greece. Muiznieks calls on the authorities to take ur...
FUEN criticizes the “240 Imams Law”
05.02.2013
The Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) released a press release on the adoption by the Greek Parliament of a controversial bill with additional amendments providing that the Muslim preachers appointed by the Greek state will serve in mosques and public schools in Western Thrace, and noted the concerning legislative regulation is contrar...
Imam of Rhodes İlter Meço arrested
08.11.2012
ABTTF President Halit Habipoğlu: What actually contrary to law concerning the situation in Rhodes, Greece is the appointment of Imam Hasan Karaali to the island by the Office of Mufti in Dimetoka although it has no legal power to do so İlter Meço, who has been charged as imam and teacher of the Koran course of the Rhodes Muslims Culture and Brot...
In Echinos, 20 Muslim mothers challenge the law denying their children pre-school education both in Turkish and Greek Bilingual Turkish-Greek kindergartens are a big issue for the Muslim ethnic Turkish minority
24.10.2012
HRWF (24.10.2012) - Twenty mothers of Echinos (Thrace, Xanthi Prefecture) belonging to the Muslim ethnic Turkish minority[i] are openly challenging Law 3518/2006 introducing compulsory school education from the age of five because the local Greek educational authorities have repeatedly rejected their requests for opening a Greek-Turkish kindergarte...
Muslims of Turkish origin discriminated against in North-Eastern Greece
23.10.2012
A human rights fact-finding mission accompanied by European deputy François Alfonsi highlights structural human rights problems and recommends to the Greek Government a constructive dialogue with the said community HRWF (22.10.2012) - "Muslims of Turkish heritage who number about 140,000-150,000 people[i] in Thrace (North-Eastern Greece) are dis...
Golden Dawn party members smash stalls run by immigrants in Rafina, near Athens
10.09.2012
ABTTF President Halit Habipoğlu: Unless immediate measures are taken, we will witness increasing acts of violence in different parts of the country The members of the political party Golden Dawn (Chrysi Avgi) inspected the permits and documents of those who opened stall in the market set up on the occasion of religious feast in Rafina, near to...
Golden Dawn supporters clash with police
27.08.2012
ABTTF President Halit Habipoğlu: The spread of clashes into other cities may threaten the general security of the country The police intervened in the protest led by Golden Dawn MP Efstathios Boukouras and Golden Dawn supporters who patrol the city of Corinth with the claim of “expelling the immigrants and protecting the Greek identity of the ci...
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