Turkish Union of Xanthi: Ankara’s wishes and spikes, Foreign Minister Answer – The Association was once in the EPS Registries and EPOs!

The issue has been posted in recent days on Twitter by the Turkish Foreign Ministry, who wished “Happy Birthday” to Turkish Union of Xanthi. As he writes: ‘Happy birthday to the 98 years of the Turkish Union of Xanthi, the oldest organization of the Citizens of the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace! We support the justified efforts and the honest fight of the Union to use its name, in accordance with the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights”

The Turkish Union of Xanthi, as reports in its reportage thrakisports.gris one of the clubs of the Muslim minority of Greek Thrace. Was founded in 1927, but was banned by the Greek authorities in 1987 and 1999. In the past he had a registration number Both in the Xanthi EPS and earlier in the EPS of Thraceas well as in the EPO. In 2008, a decision by the European Court of Human Rights condemned Greece for violating its freedom cooperative.

Greek judicial authorities refused to re -legalize iton the basis of its statutes, but also its actions, as The Union has been accused of having relations with the Turkish Party of nationalist movement and the far -right terrorist organization of gray wolves.

Immediate was the reaction of the Greek Foreign Ministry, which clarified that the Treaty of Lausanne explicitly refers to a religious rather than a national minority in Thrace.

“The Greek state fully respects the religious beliefs and cultural particularities of the Muslim minority in Thrace. And to the Greek citizens, members of the minority, complete equality and equality“, Pointed out the Greek Foreign Minister.

The “Turkish Union of Xanthi” was founded in 1927 under the name “House of Turkish Youth of Xanthi”. 1936 renamedat the request of the Association at the Court of First Instance of Xanthi, in a Turkish Union of Xanthi, which is its current name.

In November 1983, the Prefect of Xanthi, Fanis Donas, testified to the One -Member Court of First Instance of Xanthi one Application for interim measures requesting the prohibition on the use of the term “Turkish”, which was accepted. In January 1984 Donas filed a lawsuit for the dismantling of the union at the Multi -Court of First Instance of Xanthi for reasons of public order offending.

In March 1986, Dona’s lawsuit was accepted on the grounds that the compatibility of the Union’s statutes with the principles of the Greek state cannot be judged, Because it was not clarified in its statutes what Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’s social reforms were whose dissemination was there as one of the goals of the Union.

In November 1987, along with other so -called “Turkish” organizations in Western Thrace, The Turkish Union of Xanthi was banned because, according to the Thrace Court of Appeal, the word “Turkish” in its titles as a description of the members of the Muslim minority of Western Thrace threatened public order and should only be used to refer to Turkish citizens.

The organization appealed against this ruling in the Supreme Court of Greece. In 2005, The Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of the organizationwhich according to the court ‘is an attempt to confirm the presence of a Turkish minority in Greece“, Although these decisions were deemed to be violated Article 11 of the European Convention of Human Rights.

Then the Turkish Union of Xanthi practiced Appeal against the European Court of Human Rights Court. On March 27, 2008, The European Court of Justice considered it to be contrary to the contract that the non -recognition of the “Turkish” minority associations were in touch with the freedom of expression and cooperative.

The Greek government appealed against this decision and refused to recognize the Turkish Union of Xanthi, but the European Court of Human Rights confirmed its first decision.. In December 2008, the Thrace Court of Appeal, which rejected the Union’s re -registration, stated that the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights was non -binding and that the court had neglected to take into account the “political” parameters in its ruling, citing and reserved for.

On 10-10-2017 the Hellenic Parliament voted a provision providing for that even after the creation of a judgment, the Greek courts must change decisions opposed to those of the European Court of Human Rights. The provision allows the Turkish Union of Xanthi and similar associations to seek the change of the decision and as expected they asked for it, but without achieving what they want.

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