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Those who rule Greece continue to ignore the rights abuses suffered by the Turkish community in Western Thrace for years
17.01.2022
ABTTF President: “While our country has hijacked our educational autonomy with unilateral policies and practices over the years, closed our primary schools one by one every year on grounds of lack of students and ignored our request for bilingual minority kindergartens, our motherland has opened schools even for only four students in Imbros (...
ABTTF’s programme entitled “Facts about Our Country” focused on the 39-year legal struggle of the Xanthi Turkish Union
14.01.2022
The second 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 13 January 2022. The second guest of the programme, which was broadcast live simultaneously on ABTTF’s YouTube channel and Facebo...
Petition requesting bilingual minority kindergartens of the Turkish community in Western Thrace discussed at the EP Committee on Petitions
11.01.2022
A petition regarding the lack of bilingual minority kindergartens in Western Thrace to provide education in Turkish and Greek (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/en/petition/content/0058%252F2019/html/Petition-No-0058%252F2019-by-Ozan-Ahmeto%25C4%259Flu-%2528Greek%2529-on-teaching-Turkish-in-pre-school-education-to-children-belonging-to-the-T...
The online programme series entitled “Facts about Our Country” will discuss the 39-year legal struggle of the Xanthi Turkish Union
10.01.2022
The second programme of the online programme series entitled “Facts about Our Country” realised by the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) will be broadcast on Thursday, 13 January 2022 on the Zoom platform. The second guest of the programme which will be broadcast live simultaneously on ABTTF’s YouTube channel...
We condemn the outrageous attack on the Muslim cemetery in Iserlohn, Germany!
05.01.2022
ABTTF President: “We condemn in the strongest possible way the outrageous attack on the Muslim cemetery in the city of Iserlohn, and we demand that the perpetrators be caught and brought to justice as soon as possible and given the punishment they deserve.” On the night of 1 January 2022, an attack was carried out on the Muslim cemet...
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
24.12.2021
Action against rights violations and unlawful practices in the field of education from the Turkish community in Western Thrace
20.12.2021
ABTTF President: “Our country, Greece, must now listen to the just demands we have made for years so that our children can have a better education, and establish a long-lasting dialogue with our community based on good faith to solve the issues.” The Turkish community in Western Thrace organised an action to draw attention to the iss...
The Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs ignored the Turkish community in Western Thrace once again
14.12.2021
ABTTF President: “Our country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dendias will hopefully visit the provinces of Rodopi and Xanthi in the future and meet with our elected leaders of our community, who make up the majority of the population in the province of Rodopi and almost half of the population in the province of Xanthi.” Gr...
Situation and issues of the Muslim community in Greece were discussed at ABTTF’s programme titled “Facts about our Country”
13.12.2021
The Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) launched its online programme series titled “Facts about our Country” on 10 December 2021. Anna Stamou, Public Relations Officer of the Muslim Association of Greece, was the guest of the first programme, which was held exclusively at the occasion of the International Human Righ...
ABTTF attended the conference on Greece’s policy of non-execution of ECtHR judgments organised by the Xanthi Turkish Union
13.12.2021
The Xanthi Turkish Union (XTU), the oldest association of the Turkish community in Western Thrace which was founded in 1927 but closed in 1986 by the Greek national courts on grounds of the word ‘Turkish’ in its name, held an online conference titled “Greece’s Policy of Non-Execution of ECtHR Judgments regarding the Turkish ...
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