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ABTTF attended the funeral ceremony of late Mufti of Xanthi Ahmet Mete
18.07.2022
Thousands of Western Thrace Turks accompanied our Mufti of Xanthi Ahmet Mete who passed away at the age of 57 in his last journey. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) attended on 15 July 2022 in Xanthi the funeral ceremony of our Mufti of Xanthi Ahmet Mete who passed away on 14 July 2022. The ceremony, which was attended by ...
National Minorities in Europe and the Turkish community in Western Thrace were discussed in the ‘‘Facts about our Country’’ programme
15.07.2022
The ninth part of the online programme series of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) titled ‘‘Facts about Our Country’’ was broadcast on 14 July 2022. The guest of the ninth programme was Loránt Vincze, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and President of the Federal Union of European Natio...
Turkish community in Western Thrace was ignored again during Prime Minister Mitsotakis’ visit to Komotini!
12.07.2022
ABTTF President: “We witnessed that our Prime Minister, who did not meet with the elected representatives of our community during his visit to Komotini, once again ignored our issues by pursuing the official policy of state denial of our community’’. Our country Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited Komotini...
Everyone should be treated equally in the implementation of development policy; no discrimination should be made!
07.07.2022
ABTTF President: “The newly established Development Organisation of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace should take into account the Turkish community in Western Thrace in all the studies to be carried out on the implementation of the development policy in our region, and Turkish producers and enterprises should not be excluded in the distribution o...
The restoration of the Didymoteicho Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Mosque will finally start after 5 years!
28.06.2022
ABTTF President: “Five years after the fire, we are of course hopeful that the restoration work on the mosque will finally begin. Stating that the restoration has to be included in the Recovery Fund due to the fact that the project budget is very large, the Minister’s statement shows the shame that has been going on for five years in th...
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child published its concluding observations regarding Greece
17.06.2022
The United Nations (UN) Committee on the Rights of the Child published its concluding observations on our country Greece, which it examined at its 90th session between 3 May and 3 June 2022. In the concluding observations, which include recommendations for our country, which is a party to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, it is noted...
Greek diplomatic sources misread Lausanne, draw a wrong parallel!
16.06.2022
ABTTF President: “According to Lausanne, the Muslim minority in our country and the non-Muslim minority in Turkey enjoy autonomous status in education and religion! The way muftis are chosen or appointed in Turkey cannot be rightfully compared with the Turkish community in Western Thrace. If we take Lausanne as a basis, both the patriarch and...
Parallel Report from ABTTF to the Greece 2021 Report on International Religious Freedom
15.06.2022
In its parallel report, ABTTF detailed the issues that the Turkish community in Western Thrace is dealing with in the field of religious freedom and called on our country Greece to restore the religious autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace. The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) prepared a parallel report in resp...
Another warning from the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to our country Greece!
13.06.2022
ABTTF President: “The Committee of Ministers warns our country that it is ready to take new actions if it does not take any concrete steps by December, but no matter how much it is warned, our country does not intend to execute the ECtHR judgments in this group of cases. From now on, the Committee of Ministers should accept this fact and be c...
Deputy Minister of Education visits schools belonging to the Greek Orthodox minority in Gökçeada (Imbros)
10.06.2022
ABTTF President: “Although our population is much larger than the Greek Orthodox minority living in Gökçeada (Imbros), we do not have a single kindergarten in Western Thrace. Our country has been ignoring our bilingual kindergarten demands for years. I wonder how the Deputy Minister will explain this situation?” Deputy Mi...
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