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Mufti of Xanthi Ahmet Mete is sentenced to 15 months in prison
18.06.2021
ABTTF President: “As ABTTF representing the Western Thrace Turks living in Europe, we condemn in the strongest terms this unjust prison sentence decision given by the court against our esteemed mufti Ahmet Mete, and call on our country to immediately cease its oppressive practices against our muftis and respect our religious freedom.” ...
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe strongly warned Greece with interim resolution
10.06.2021
ABTTF President: “Our country must immediately end its policy of denial against us and, as the Committee of Ministers has emphasised it, take a concrete step towards the execution of ECtHR judgments concerning our associations, proving that it fully respects the principles of democracy and the rule of law.” The Committee of Ministers...
Greece disregards the principles of democracy and the rule of law by denying the Turkish identity of the Turkish community in Western Thrace
04.06.2021
ABTTF President: “The article of Stylianidis in Estia is actually a summary of the overview of state and representative governments and politics regarding the Turkish community in Western Thrace in Greece. This mentality is the obstacle with respect to the denial of the status and rights of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and not exec...
MEP Kefalogiannis sent a letter of complaint to the EP President about the webinar organised by ABTTF
03.06.2021
ABTTF President: “Due to this mentality that disregards the principles of democracy and the rule of law, our associations with the word Turkish in their names are dissolved and new ones are not registered” European Parliament MEP Manolis K. Kefalogiannis (EPP-Christian Democrats) sent a letter to EP President David Sassoli on 1 June ...
Greece’s failure to execute the ECtHR judgments on Western Thrace Turkish associations was discussed at an online panel organised by ABTTF
02.06.2021
It was noted during the event that the fact that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgments regarding the Xanthi Turkish Union which was closed, and the Cultural Association of Turkish Women of the Rodopi Province and the Evros Prefecture Minority Youth Association which were not registered by the national courts, have not been executed b...
Official visit of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey to Athens
01.06.2021
ABTTF President: “We hope that the positive mood following the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of our motherland and our country in Athens will lead to the establishment of a dialogue mechanism between the official authorities of our country and the Turkish community in Western Thrace.” Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of...
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu visited Western Thrace
31.05.2021
ABTTF President: “As stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of our motherland, we as Western Thrace Turks want our rights and freedoms not to be politically instrumentalised in our country and we want to solve our problems in dialogue with the official authorities of our country.” Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Minister of Foreign ...
ABTTF is organising a webinar regarding the non-execution of ECtHR judgments on Western Thrace Turkish associations by Greece
28.05.2021
Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) with the support of MEP François Alfonsi is organising on 2 June 2021 an online panel discussion entitled “The Long-Standing Problem of Non-Execution of ECtHR’s Judgments by Greece: The Bekir Ousta and Others Group of Cases”. The online panel discussion will focu...
Greek Prime Minister imposes identity on Turkish community in Western Thrace
21.05.2021
ABTTF President: “We condemn the statements of our country’s Prime Minister Mitsotakis who ignores the Turkish community in Western Thrace and denies our Turkish identity. We call on our country which claims to be the cradle of democracy to immediately cease its policy of imposing identity on us and to respect our freedom to express our...
The US 2020 Report on International Religious Freedom released
19.05.2021
ABTTF President: “In the section on Greece of the report, we see that the problems experienced by the Turkish community in Western Thrace in the religious sphere are again partially included. By preparing a parallel report as we have done in the past years, we will detail the issues and demands of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and s...
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