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Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Omer Celik met with Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris, in Ankara and thanked him for his sensitivity over the protection...

According to the Turkish newspaper Milliyet, Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew said that Greece's crushing economic crisis has made life so desperate that many people...

Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized the appointment of senior religious authorities for the Muslim minority in Thrace by the Greek state, a...

The funeral of the prominent Turkish journalist Mehmet Ali Birand on Jan. 19 attracted a large crowd, including Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who came to...

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...

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...

A Greek Orthodox monastery in Jerusalem has been defaced by vandals with graffiti that stated "Death to Christianity” and "Jesus, son of a whore,"...

The beginning of the end of the Ottoman Occupation of Greece in 1821, which gave birth to the modern Greek state, and the fall...

By Elisabeth Herschbach A maze of narrow streets on the slopes of a small rocky peninsula in the northeastern Peloponnese, Nafplio is one of the...

A  27-year-old man was arrested in Greece for alleged blasphemy against a famous Greek monk, Elder Paisios, after pressure was applied by the ultra-religious...