FUEN undertook a fact-finding mission to Rhodes and Kos
01.09.2015The Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) undertook a fact-finding mission to the Dodecanese Islands Rhodes and Kos on 27-30 August 2015.
During the visit hosted by our member organization Rhodes, Kos and the Dodecanese Turks Culture and Solidarity Association, FUEN Vice President Halit Habip Oglu and the Director of Human Rights Without Frontiers Int’l (HRWF) Willy Fautré have monitored the situation of the Turkish minority living in Rhodes and Kos. The delegation met with members of the Turkish minority and representatives of civil society in Rhodes and Kos.
The delegation heard many problems of the Turkish minority during their visit. Furthermore the delegation visited cultural and historical Ottoman monuments and buildings in the two islands and found that the Ottoman cultural heritage was destructed.
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