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Boutaris Gets Turkey’s Thanks On Heritage
Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Omer Celik met with Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris, in Ankara and thanked him for his sensitivity over the protection...
Erdogan Critical of Greek-appointed Muftis
Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized the appointment of senior religious authorities for the Muslim minority in Thrace by the Greek state, a...
Erdogan Offers To Build Mosque in Greece
With Greece’s Muslims fuming that the government hasn’t built them an official mosque as tension has been ramping up against immigrants, Turkish Prime Minister...
Turkey Opposes Letting Greece Name Imams
Turkish officials have slammed legislation that will enable Greek authorities to appoint imams at state schools and mosques in Western Thrace.
The amendment voted this...
Hagia Yorgi Greek Church Will Open Again
The historic Hagia Yorgi Greek Church in the Mediterranean province of Antalya’s Alanya district in Turkey will be restored and reopened for worship by...
Spray Threats On Jerusalem Greek Monastery
A Greek Orthodox monastery in Jerusalem has been defaced by vandals with graffiti that stated "Death to Christianity” and "Jesus, son of a whore,"...
Without a Mosque, Greece's Muslims Go Underground
Muslims in Greece are being left to pray in basement apartments, coffee shops, garages and old warehouses, many of which are targets of arsonists,...
Bartholomew Opposes Turning St. Sofia Church in Trapezounta into Mosque
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, said he opposes Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc's idea to turn the Christian Church of St....
Swiss Paper Features Muslims of Greek Rhodope Region Saying “No One Wants Them”
The Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung has featured Muslims living in northern Greece, close to neighboring Bulgaria who are also called Pomaks.
Their religion is the...
Turkish Head of Religious Affairs Directorate Comments on Halki Theological School
“I believe it doesn’t befit the grandiosity of the civilization we built on this territory for Orthodox citizens to have to send their children...