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Fairness should be the rule in the distribution of the different investment incentives envisaged by the New Development Law!
08.02.2022
ABTTF President: “We demand that all investment and development incentives to be provided to Western Thrace should be distributed in a fair and balanced way between the Turkish community and majority-owned companies. As we have emphasised in our concrete proposals submitted to the cross-party Commission for the Development of Thrace as ABTTF,...
Greece is continuing its measures which deny the “Turkish” identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
07.02.2022
ABTTF President: “The Greek state and its representative government thus revealed its main purpose by adding the option ‘Pomak’ which is not a religious belief into the registration form. The purpose is clear: To divide our community by imposing different identities on us. However, as Western Thrace Turks, we will not be duped, an...
Visit of Greek Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andreas Katsaniotis to Imbros (Gökçeada)
02.02.2022
ABTTF President: ‘This visit by Katsaniotis is a very natural act and has been welcomed as it should be. I would like to ask Katsaniotis whom stated that our country Greece supports the Treaty of Lausanne and that they will remind Turkey of its commitments. Just like the visit he realised, when officials from our motherland Turkey visit Weste...
An anti-Islam poster was put up opposite to the historic Çelebi Sultan Mehmet Mosque in the town of Didymoteicho!
01.02.2022
ABTTF President: “We strongly condemn the evil mentality that planned to put up an anti-Islam poster opposite to the historic Çelebi Sultan Mehmet Mosque in the town of Didymoteicho. Unfortunately, this attack is a fundamental indicator of how widespread hate speech and Islamophobia is in our country and of a fascistic view’&rs...
ABTTF Presidium gathered specially on 29 January, Social Solidarity and National Resistance Day
31.01.2022
ABTTF Presidium: ‘We promise to continue to maintain the spirit of struggle ignited on 29 January, and we guarantee that we will strive in all areas to ensure the return of the rights of the Turkish community in Western Thrace arising from the treaties and to ensure the conditions necessary for our community to take an equal, free and active ...
Human rights cases against Greece before the ECtHR were discussed in the third part of the online programme series entitled ‘Facts about Our Country’
28.01.2022
The third programme of the online programme series entitled “Facts about our Country” organised on the Zoom platform by the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) was realised on 27 January 2022. The guest of the third programme, moderated by ABTTF International Relations Director Melek Kırmacı Arık, was Panayote ...
Stylianidis: “Turkey should treat the Greeks in Istanbul, Imbros (Gökçeada) and Tenedos (Bozcaada) the same way as we treat Muslims in Thrace”
26.01.2022
ABTTF President: “Do you really want Turkey to treat the Greeks in Istanbul, Imbros (Gökçeada) and Tenedos (Bozcaada) the way you treat us?” Speaking at the “THRACE- Past, Present and Future” event of the American Legion in Athens on 19 January 2022, Rodopi Province New Democracy MP Evripidis Stylianidis claim...
Human rights cases against Greece before the ECtHR will be discussed in the third part of the online programme series entitled “Facts about Our Country”
25.01.2022
The third programme will be broadcast on Thursday 27 January 2022 in the online programme series entitled “Facts about Our Country” realised by the Turkish of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) on the Zoom platform. The guest of the third programme, which will be broadcast live simultaneously on ABTTF’s YouTube channel and ...
An attack was perpetrated to a masjid in Athens with an improvised explosive device
24.01.2022
ABTTF President: ‘This attack, which targeted the Muslim community of about 500,000 people in Athens, poses a clear threat to social peace and tranquillity. The authorities of our country should conduct the investigation with great care, identify the perpetrators and punish them before the judiciary as they deserve. This is our clear demand f...
On the one hand, the Turkish community in Western Thrace, whose rights are constantly being seized, and on the other hand, the Greek Orthodox minority, which freely enjoys religious freedom
20.01.2022
ABTTF President: “Considering our country’s continued violation and seizure of the rights and freedoms of the Turkish community in Western Thrace, we demand our motherland to freeze its tolerant practices towards the Greek Orthodox minority, which we hope our country will follow as an example in accordance with the principle of reciproc...
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