Balkans | Amnesty International reported on the problems of the Turks of Western Thrace

The European Western Thrace Turkish Federation (ABTTF) has prepared a written opinion on the Greek section of Amnesty International’s 2022/23 report and sent it to the organisation.

The European Western Thrace Turkish Federation (ABTTF) has prepared a written opinion on the Greek section of Amnesty International’s 2022/23 report and sent it to the organisation. The ABTTF informed Amnesty International of the problems of the Western Turkish community in Thrace in relation to the topics mentioned in the Greek section of the report, which examines the state of human rights in the world.

Referring to the opening of judicial investigations after the demonstrations of Greek-Turkish citizens, who are part of society in Greece, in accordance with their right to peaceful assembly and protest, the ABTTF said that the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against Greece by the Turkish Xanthi Federation (ITB), which It was closed due to the word “Turkish” in its name. He stated that 7 months after the rally he organized on July 10, 2021, an investigation was opened against the ITB president and 11 other representatives of the Turkish West Thrace community on the grounds that the pandemic rules were not followed.

The Panel emphasized that the elected Mufti of Komotini and Xanthi, elected by the Turkish West Thrace community, had been repeatedly prosecuted for “extortion of office,” and noted that the elected Mufti of Komotini, Ibrahim Sharif, and the elected Mufti of Xanthi, the late Ahmet Mete, had been sentenced to imprisonment.

The ABTTF also cited in its written opinion the hate attacks and hate speech targeting the West Thracian Turkish community in Greece. It was reported that Xanthi’s deputy Syriza Hussein Zebek had been threatened with death by a spectator who was hooking up to a live program on a local resident. TV channel by phone.

On the subject, the association’s president, Halit Habibioglu, said, “Amnesty International, one of the world’s leading human rights NGOs, is helping to combat human rights violations around the world through detailed research and resolute campaigning. In our prepared written opinion On behalf of the ABTTF, we conveyed the problems of our society and the discrimination it is exposed to, and we asked the organization to also focus on minority rights in next year’s reports.Minority rights are an integral part of human rights.

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