Greece is among the top 10 countries that do not execute the ECtHR judgments, which is also criticized by the Chairman of the Special Committee of the Greek Parliament on monitoring the judgments of the ECtHR, Maximos Charakopoulos. As noted in the EU 2022 Rule of Law Report on Greece, Greece had 30 leading judgments of the European Court of Human Rights pending implementation. The oldest leading judgment, pending implementation for 18 years, concerns the access to and the efficient functioning of justice due to the lack and the delayed enforcement of domestic judicial decisions. In the Bekir Ousta group of cases, the re-opening of the proceedings for the applicant associations did not start despite the legislative amendment adopted by Greece in 2017, and the three judgments are pending for more than 14 years. The Court of Cassation has rejected appeals lodged by three applicants in 2021 and 2022, despite the Interim Resolution(CM/ResDH(2021)105 and the Decision (CM/Del/Dec(2022)1436/H46-8) of the Ministers Deputies. This group of case has been politicised due to the denial of the ethnic Turkish identity and the lack of the necessary political will at the national level. Furthermore, an investigation has been launched against the President of Xanthi Turkish Union and 11 other representatives of the Turkish community 7 months after the march organised on 10 July 2021 to protest the failure of the execution by Greece of the ECtHR. Our NGO has sent an urgent appeal in March 2022 to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Human Rights Defender on the violation of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association and asked the Rapporteur to investigate the violations of the freedom of association of the Turkish community in Western Thrace by Greece and the right to access to justice due to the nonexecution of ECtHR’s judgments in Bekir Ousta group and send a letter to the Government of Greece ahead of her visit to Greece. Apart from the Turkish community in Western Thrace, more than 6.000 Turks people live in the Dodecanese islands, mainly in Rhodes and Kos in the Aegean Sea. Greece does not recognize any minority rights of the Turkish minority in Rhodes and Kos on the ground that the islands were under the rule of Italy at the time the Lausanne Peace Treaty was signed, Greece does not recognize the ethnic identity of the Turkish population in the islands and name them as “Greek Muslims”. According to the findings of the Committee of Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe and the NGO Human Rights Without Frontiers, the problems of the Turks living in the Dodecanese are citizenship, learning of Turkish, religion and worship, hatred and pressure, the protection of the cultural heritage of the Ottoman Turks and the pious foundations(waqfs) problem. There is no improvement in the solution of the problems mentioned above. Mustafa Kaymakçı, the President of, Rhodes, Kos and Dodecanese Turks Culture and Solidarity Association (ROISDER), a diaspora organization which has the aim of preserving the cultural identity and traditions of the Turkish community in Rhodes and Kos, was arrested in Kos (İstanköy) in 2016, where he went on a research field trip, for a new project of his organization. Kaymakçı was kept under detention one night and then expelled from Greece on grounds that he poses a threat to the public order in the country. The deportation of Kaymakçı from Greece was an attempt of intimidation by Greek authorities against the Turkish community living in Rhodes, Kos and the Dodecanese, which is kept under political pressure for almost 70 years. Greece should respect the rights of the Turkish community in Western Thrace and the Turkish community in Rhodes and Kos and ensure that everyone is effectively protected against all forms of discrimination and can fully enjoy their rights under the specific treaties they are granted with rights and other international human rights conventions. 2