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ABTTF President Habip Oğlu: “We showed that we are ‘Turks’ with the votes we casted to our party in the 2024 EP elections, and we proved our existence in the region with the votes our party received.”
14.06.2024
In the European Parliament (EP) elections held in Greece on 9 June 2024, the Friendship Equality and Peace (FEP) Party, the only political party and representative of the Turkish community in Western Thrace in the political field, became the first party by receiving the most votes in the prefectures of Rodopi and Xanthi, as in 2014 and 2019. and ac...
FEP Party made history again in the European Parliament elections!
10.06.2024
ABTTF President: “With the great success of our party in the EP elections, our community delivered a very strong message to those who govern our country, saying ‘We exist, and we are Turks!’ to those who persistently deny our existence and identity in our country. I wholeheartedly congratulate our FEP Party, which made history for...
ABTTF President Habip Oğlu: “Our country’s national courts and judges must also take into consideration the ECtHR judgments and jurisprudence.”
07.06.2024
ABTTF President: “Our country Greece has been disregarding the principle of the rule of law and European values by failing to execute the ECtHR judgments regarding the Bekir-Ousta and Others group of cases, which includes the associations of our community for the past 16 years. Our country’s national courts and judges must also take int...
ABTTF President Habip Oğlu spoke to TRT World about the participation of the FEP Party in the EP elections
03.06.2024
ABTTF President: “Through the FEP Party in Greece, Turks in Western Thrace want to tell the world: ‘We are here too, hear us! Listen to our problems!’’ The upcoming European Parliament (EP) elections and the participation of the Friendship Equality Peace (DEB) Party in the elections were discussed in the special news repo...
EP Rapporteur drew attention to the issues regarding the rule of law in Greece
01.03.2024
ABTTF President: “Our country, which has not executed the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights regarding our three associations for the past 16 years, continues to disregard the principle of the rule of law, despite clearly damaging its reputation in the international arena. If our country, which has been a member of the EU since 1...
Happy International Mother Language Day!
21.02.2024
ABTTF President: “In our country Greece, our demand for kindergarten has been ignored for years, and children of our community are prevented from learning their native language Turkish, in pre-school education’’. The General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) declared ...
Resolution from the European Parliament on serious developments that threaten the rule of law in Greece
08.02.2024
ABTTF President: “A harsh warning has now come from the EP to our country, which has disregarded the rule of law by failing to execute three judgments of the European Court of Human Rights regarding the associations of our community for almost 16 years, despite all the warnings of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. What suit...
Strong criticism of Greece regarding the rule of law in the European Parliament
23.01.2024
ABTTF President: “Our country, which became a member of the EU in 1981, continues its attitude of disregarding the principle of the rule of law by persistently not executing three judgments of the European Court of Human Rights regarding the associations of our community for the past 15 years. The truth is plainly obvious. Our country must no...
A special reference was made to respect for minority rights at the EU-Western Balkans Summit
20.12.2023
ABTTF President: “Why has our country, which is one of the oldest members of the EU and boasts of being the cradle of democracy at every opportunity, persistently not executed the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights regarding our associations in the Bekir-Ousta and Others Group of Cases for the past fifteen years? Why does our cou...
Prime Minister Mitsotakis met with representatives of the Greek minority in Tirana
18.10.2023
ABTTF President: “Just as the Greek minority in Albania is Greek; we as the Turkish minority in Greece, we are Turks! However, our country does not accept this, turns its back on us, either ignores our problems or creates new ones each single day!’’ Our country Greece’s Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, went to T...
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