The European Court of Justice delivered that the European Commission decision to reject the registration of FUEN’s one million signature campaign on grounds that the initiative is not within its competence was unlawful.
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Greek Basketball Federation President Giorgos Vasilakopoulos in a statement as to why the Panathinaikos – Aris Greek Basketball final would not be played in Xanthi used the rhetoric ‘ we feared the Muslim minority would get involved in the events.’
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From 14-17 December 2016 a dialogue project will take place in the House of Minorities of FUEN in Flensburg with minorities from the Caucasus region. The minorities in the Caucasus region face major challenges in finding their role in civil society. The core of the project is to create a dialogue between different ethnic and language groups.
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The Third Meeting of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) Turkish Minorities / Communities Working Group (TAG) was held on 14-17 November 2016 in Berlin, the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany. FUEN President Lorant Vincze attended to the meeting which was held in the Federal German Interior Ministry Work Building with logistical support of the FUEN Working Group of German Minorities (AGDM).
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The International Secretariat of OMCT condemned detention and expulsion of Federal Union of European Nationalities(FUEN) member organization Rhodes, Kos and the Dodecanese Turks Culture and Solidarity Association Prof. Dr. Mustafa Kaymakçı.
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The representatives of Turkish Minority of Western Thrace, Meskhetian Turks and Crimean Tatars who are members of FUEN (Federal Union of European Nations) attended the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Human Dimension Implementation Meeting organised during 19-30 September 2016 in Warsaw. FUEN Legal Adviser and FUEN Brussels Office Manager Frank de Boer also participated to the meeting for two weeks where civil society representatives raised the problems of discriminatory practices faced in their homelands.
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The Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) is shocked by the news that the president of our member organization Rhodes, Kos and the Dodecanese Turks Culture and Solidarity Association, Mr. Mustafa Kaymakçı was arrested and kept under detention one night in Kos (İstanköy), where he was doing research for a new project of his organization.
Read more FUEN member organizations, Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF), Rhodes, Kos and the Dodecanese Turks Culture and Solidarity Association (ROISDER) and International Society of the Meskhetian Turks VATAN attended the Winter Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The three groups representing the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace and the Turkish minority in Rhodes and Kos in Greece and the Meskhetian Turks respectively raised the problems of their own communities.
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Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) strongly condemns attack against our member organization, Friendship, Equality, Peace (FEP) Party which politically represents the Turkish minority in Greece.
FUEN is deeply concerned about the attack against the new Head Office of the FEP Party which is located approximately 8 km away from Komotini in the region of Western Thrace at the early hours of December 8, 2015.
The Rhodes, Kos and the Dodecanese Turks Culture and Solidarity Association, in its Turkish and Greek letters to the İzmir Consulate General of the Hellenic Republic dated November 26, 2015, conveyed its request for the preservarion and usage of the Ottoman architecture in Rhodes and Kos according to their purpose.
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