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Report from ABTTF in response to the Greece Report on the U.S. Human Rights Practices Report for 2022
17.04.2023
ABTTF President: “Unfortunately, the U.S. Greece Human Rights Report gives less and less coverage to the issues of our community each year, which damages the credibility and reliability of the U.S. report. As every year, we have clearly expressed this criticism in the report we prepared as a response to the US Greece 2022 Human Rights Report....
The Racist Violence Recording Network published its 2022 Greece report
13.04.2023
The Athens-based Racist Violence Recording Network (RVRN) released its report on racially motivated violence in Greece in 2022 on 6 April 2023. RVRN’s eleventh annual report examines the quantitative and qualitative trends in racist violence in Greece, highlighting that racism and the targeting of human rights defenders erode the safety of...
Manipulative news from the Greek press about the article of the ABTTF President on the upcoming general elections in our country
06.04.2023
ABTTF President: “As ABTTF, we have only supported Turkish candidates in the general, regional, and local elections in our country. As I have clearly stated in my article, which is the subject of the news, we, as ABTTF, support Turkish candidates in the upcoming general elections. Ultimately, however, voting rights are personal in democracies...
Another example of the statements of our country’s politicians that deny the truth!
30.03.2023
ABTTF President: “When our country’s prime minister visited the Greek minority living in the south of Albania, which is not yet a member of the European Union, in December 2022, he was greeted with Greek flags by the Greek minority and even accompanied by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama for part of the visit. However, when the Prime Mi...
Parallel report from ABTTF to the report of the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs
29.03.2023
ABTTF President: “We demand from the government to establish a direct dialogue with our community on all matters concerning our community, and to adopt a genuine policy based on sincerity rather than a one-sided, imposing, and discriminatory approach towards our community. We want our parallel report on our issues with our religious autonomy ...
The issues of Western Thrace Turks were on the agenda at the United Nations
24.03.2023
In its oral statement at the UN, attended by all states, UN bodies and many civil society representatives in the world, ABTTF said that the Turkish community in Western Thrace is seen as a threat in its own country, and that because of this, it has been made the target of hate speech in politics and media. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks ...
Former Secretary General for Human Rights Maria Yannakaki: The right to be protected from racial violence and rhetoric is a collective right, not just an individual right
23.03.2023
ABTTF President Halit Habip Oğlu: ‘‘ “Sharia’’ has never been applied in Western Thrace, and customary law is applied in our region within the scope of rights arising from international treaties. At this point, the law applied in our region should not be confused with the Sharia law in Iran or Afghanistan. It is necess...
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
21.03.2023
ABTTF President: “The fight against racism and racial discrimination is of urgent importance, and steps should be taken in this regard, not in words but in substance. Indeed, as we always say it, while our country’s rulers are trying to create another reality to cover up the systematic discrimination our community has been subjected to ...
Nasty statements before the upcoming elections
15.03.2023
ABTTF President: “Ramadan is sacred for the Islamic world, and it continues to be kept alive for the Turkish community in Western Thrace as a religious and cultural tradition with iftars and other events. Just as important religious days of other well-known religions in our country are respected and even celebrated by others, the same respect...
Western Thrace Turkish Delegation at OSCE
14.03.2023
At the meeting which was focusing on media freedom, ABTTF and WTMUGA indicated that political discourse and actions also shape the media and pointed out that the news targeting Western Thrace Turks and hate speech in the media have increased. The Western Thrace Turkish delegation, consisting of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (A...
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