ABTTF President Habipoğlu: As the Turkish society, we were newer accepted in our own country."

Habipoğlu said in his written statement on the subject on ABTTF's website: “We lived together in these lands for centuries, and after the borders were drawn after the wars, we gained status and rights as a minority in these lands. However, the state did not respect this and gradually took away this autonomy. Because, as the Turkish society, we have never been accepted in our own country, we have always been seen as the other, a potential enemy.”
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk met with Former Prime Minister of Greece, SYRIZA Deputy Alexis Tsipras, during his visit to Athens on 18 November.
Volker Türk evaluated the world agenda and the situation in human rights in his speech at the Department of Law, Justice and Human Rights at the University of Athens, and evaluated the global agenda in his meeting with Alexis Tsipras. During this meeting, Tsipras evaluated the UN's stance on the global agenda and gave information on issues related to human rights and the rule of law in Greece; According to the news reflected in the press, he gave information especially about the wiretapping scandal and the Pylos boat disaster, in which around 80 people trying to reach Europe died in the boat accident that occurred off the coast of Greece and many people were lost at sea.
ABTTF President Habipoğlu's statement is as follows:
“I think that Alexis Tsipras, the former Prime Minister of our country and currently a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) of Greece as a SYRIZA Deputy, should express the distortion of the understanding of human rights that deeply threatens democracy in our country, while explaining the problems related to human rights and the rule of law in our country. As is clearly seen in the refugee crisis and pushbacks in the country, our country has followed a policy devoid of compassion in the field of human rights; because the state and government policy is not in a structure that embraces the "other". We know this best. Because we lived together in these lands for centuries, and after the borders were drawn after the wars, we gained status and rights as a minority in these lands. However, the state did not respect this and gradually took away this autonomy. Because, as the Turkish society, we have never been accepted in our own country, we have always been seen as the other, a potential enemy.
Today, it is quite possible to solve it as a legal problem in the most striking way. As we see in the Bekir Usta and others case group, our freedom of association is persistently not guaranteed in three cases. "While the rule of law continues to be damaged in almost every field in our country, Tsipras should be able to express this sincerely in his meeting with Turks and wherever he works, including PACE, because as a politician and an elected person, he owes this to the democracy of our country and to us." he said.