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Report from the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs on attacks on religious sites
27.12.2019
ABTTF President: “Attacks on places of worship and mosques belonging to the Turkish community of Western Thrace are provocative attacks aimed at disrupting the peaceful environment in the region while targeting freedom of religion and belief” The Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs has just released its 2018 report on i...
Kos Municipality is confiscating the foundation's revenues on the grounds of the restoration of Defterdar Mosque!
23.12.2019
ABTTF President: ‘The municipality is trying to create a fortune from the suffering caused by the natural disaster. It is utterly unacceptable for the municipality to reach an agreement with the appointed foundation managers and collect the rental income of the shops under the mosque’. There is a series of surprising developmen...
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe stated that Greece must comply with the decisions of ECtHR
11.12.2019
Halit Habip Oğlu: “We call on our country Greece to immediately implement the decisions of ECtHR regarding the associations belonging to the Turkish community in Western Thrace and Macedonian minority.” The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe supervised the execution of the decision of European Court of Human Rights (ECtH...
Delegation of Western Thrace Turks had a meeting with OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
09.12.2019
Hate speech and systematic discrimination against the Turkish community in Western Thrace, Greece were raised in the meeting. As representatives of the Turkish community in Western Thrace, Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) and Western Thrace Minority University Graduates Association (WTMUGA) payed a working visit to the...
Delegation of Western Thrace Turks is at the UN Forum on Minority Issues
29.11.2019
The problems in the field of education faced by the Western Thrace Turks were addressed at the forum where the right to education for minorities is discussed. As representatives of the Turkish community in Western Thrace, Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) and Western Thrace Minority University Graduates Association (WTMU...
ABTTF attended the OSCE Conference on Lund Recommendations
15.11.2019
ABTTF raised the issues of the Turkish community in Western Thrace at the conference where the participation of national minorities in public life is discussed. Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF) attended the conference entitled “From Lund to Ljubljana: Promoting the participation of national minorities as a pathway to th...
Greece jails elected Mufti of Rodopi for usurping authority
12.11.2019
Ibrahim Serif, elected Mufti of Rodopi, was sentenced to 80 days prison for "usurpation of Mufti office”. The hearing was held before the Criminal Court of First Instance of Alexandropolis on 5 November 2019. His lawyer has appealed the decision in a higher court. Below is an article published by The Express Tribune. An elect...
Turkish community in Western Thrace was targeted once again!
08.11.2019
Halit Habip Oğlu: “We demand that the exclusivist populist politics and hostile statements targeting the Turkish community in Western Thrace which lives in Greece for centuries and is part of the society must end.” Greek politicians continue to target the Turkish community in Western Thrace in their statements on every occasion while...
Elected Mufti of Rhodopi was sentenced to prison
07.11.2019
Halit Habip Oğlu: “The decision of the court against our Mufti, İbrahim Şerif is a political decision which appears to be our country Greece’s policy in recent years to supress and intimidate the representatives of the Turkish community in Western Thrace.” İbrahim Şerif, Mufti of Rhodopi elected by the Turkish community in West...
Report by Minority Rights Group Europe about Western Thrace Turks
23.10.2019
Minority Rights Group Europe (MRGE), one of the leading international non-governmental organisations which work on minority rights field published a report entitled “The Turkish Minority in Western Thrace: The Long Struggle for Rights and Recognition” on 23 October 2019. The report was written by Evelin Verhás who currently works...
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