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Western Thrace Turks participated at the FUEN 2018 Congress

At the congress with the theme of “The Message of a Million: Recognition and Protection”, results and future of the successful campaign “Minority SafePack Initiative” were discussed

Kosovo Young Union Association are now member of the FUEN!

Kosovo Turks are now member of the FUEN! After the presentation made by the FUEN TAG Secretariat on behalf of the Kosovo Youth Union, which did not attend the Congress but participated to the annual meetings of the FUEN TAG in the last two years, has become a member of the FUEN with the decision of the FUEN Assembly of Delegates.

Halit Habip Oğlu met with Irina Vlah, Governor of Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia in Chisinau

Halit Habip Oğlu, Vice-President of the Federal Union of European Nations (FUEN) made a visit on 18 April 2018 to Chisinau, capital of Moldova, of which Gagauzia is an autonomous region.

RESTORATION TO BE STARTED IN DEVASTATED MURAT REIS COMPLEX IN RHODES (GREECE)

Mosque, Tomb and Graveyards within the historical Murat Reis Complex, in which the grave of Murat Pasha takes place, in Rhodes, Greece have been left to its fate and about to collapse due to neglect. Recently, at the beginning of July 2017, Greece Government shut down the entry gate of the Complex to prevent the tourists to see the said collapse.

7 months of imprisonment for Elected Mufti of Xanthi Ahmet Mete

Halit Habip Oğlu: “Religious autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace, of which right to elect its own religious leaders which are muftis has been usurped by Greece since 1990, has been disregarded once again with the court’s judgment of imprisonment.”

FUEN TAG Activitiy Report 2013-2017

FUEN TAG 4th Annual Meeting Executed in İzmir

4th Annual Meeting of the Working Group of Turkic Minorities/Communities(TAG) within the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) was held on 24-27 October 2017 hosted by FUEN member Rhodes, Kos and Dodecanese Turks Culture and Solidarity Association (ROISDER). Laszlo Bodor, Director of the Campaign of “Minority SafePack Initiative (MSPI)” also participated at the meeting in leadership Halit Habip Oğlu, FUEN Vice-President.

FUEN TAG 4th Annual Meeting Executed in İzmir

Xanthi Turkish Union administrators shown explicitly as a target by the racist organization!

Halit Habip Oğlu: “We severely condemn the ones who struggle for the rights of the Western Turkish community being targeted openly and we call on the competent authorities of our country Greece to make the required intervention immediately against this threat against safety of life”

FUEN member Turkic organizations are at the OSCE

Turkic organizations, which are members of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) participated at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Human Dimension Implementation Meeting organized in Warsaw, Poland. Western Thrace Turks, Rhodes-Kos Turks, Ahıska Turks and Crimean Tatars who are member of FUEN Working Group of Turkic Minorities/Communities (TAG) and Kosovo Turks which is not yet a member of FUEN but attended at the FUEN TAG Annual Meeting in 2016 participated at the OSCE meeting, which is the largest conference in Europe in the field of human rights and democracy.