Turkic minorities and communities came together for the 8th Annual Meeting of FUEN TAG
13.12.2022The 8th Annual Meeting of the Working Group of Turkic Minorities/Communities (TAG) of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) took place on 11 December 2022. The online meeting was attended by
- the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF)
- the Western Thrace Minority University Graduates Association (WTMUGA)
- and the Friendship Equality and Peace Party (FEP) representing the Turkish community in Western Thrace,
- the Rhodes, Kos and the Dodecanese Turks Culture and Solidarity Association (ROISDER),
- the Public Organisation of Meskhetian Turks “VATAN”, the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People (QTMM),
- the Social Organisation for Fostering and Development of the Karachay-Balkar Traditions (Bars El)
- and the Tatar Democratic Union from Romania.
At the meeting, which started with the greetings of TAG Speaker Halit Habipoğlu and FUEN Vice-President Nabi İbrahimcik, Habip Oğlu was unanimously re-elected as FUEN TAG Speaker.

The participating organisations conveyed the important developments regarding the Turkic minorities and communities they have represented since the last annual meeting in December 2021, as well as the activities they carried out in 2022 and planned to do in the near future.
The meeting ended with the discussion of FUEN TAG’s 2023 action plan and the identification of the common roadmap for it.
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- Joint Declaration on geoblocking signed by minority regions at FUEN Congress
- Opening of the 69th FUEN Congress in Bozen / Bulsan / Bolzano
- Minority Monitor: Between Law and Reality – The Struggle of the Macedonian Minority in Albania
- Minority Monitor: Challenged Identity – The Case of the Turkish Minority in Greece
- FUEN mourns the passing of Traian Cresta, a leading figure of the Romanian community in Hungary
- VATAN representatives visit FUEN Brussels and raise awareness in the European Parliament
- German Bundesrat calls for inclusion of national minorities in the Basic Law
- FUEN’s European Dialogue Forum engages in political talks in Brussels
- 7th Annual Meeting of the FUEN Working Group on Education to be held in Western Thrace (Greece)