The pro-Turkish Equality, Peace and Friendship Party (KIEF) and the Free European Alliance (EFA) organized a joint event for the European elections on Saturday, April 20, at a well-known hotel in Komotini.
The event was coordinated by the president of the Cultural Educational Society of the Minority (PEKEM) Pervin Khairoula, while a speech was delivered by the president of KIEF Tsigdem Assafoglou, who welcomed the cooperation of her party with EFA both in the upcoming and in the previous European elections of 2019 and 2014.
“Thanks to EFA and the questions it submitted to the European Parliament made known throughout Europe the injustices against the Turkish minority”, he said characteristically.
“We continued our struggle through democratic means, within the framework of the law”Mrs. Asafoglou emphasized, considering that “the victory of our party in the European elections of 2014 and 2019 in Rodopi and Xanthi, where the Turks live, was a democratic reaction towards Greece”.
“But Greece could not read the message correctly and unfortunately could not or did not want to do the political analysis correctly”, he added about the result of the previous European elections.
“As loyal citizens we do not deserve this cruelty,” he said, to note that “if Greece had spent half the energy it spent on assimilating us sociologically and culturally, we would be a much happier society that loves its country.”
Concluding, he asked those present to vote for KIEF by declaring “It is time to write a bigger story. Now is the time to shout to Greece that enough is enough.”
EFA President Lorena Lopez, German politician Maylis Rosberg and KIEF Vice President Koray Bagdatli also spoke at the event.
The President of the Advisory Committee of the Minority of Western Thrace, the pseudo-muft of Komotini Ibrahim Serif, the pseudo-muft of Xanthi Mustafa Trampa, MEP candidates of KIEF as well as the New Left Member of Parliament Ozgiur Ferhat attended the event.
