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Turkey’s EU Minister Bağış Hosts Minority Leaders

Turkish EU Minister Egemen Bağış hosted religious leaders and prominent figures from minority communities at a dinner, the Hurriyet Daily News reports. Speaking at the event, Bağış praised Turkey’s development in dealing with the problems of minorities and said issues...

Erdogan Aide Says Greeks Prefer Turkey, Not EU

After years of pushing its own candidacy for the European Union - stalled partly because it won't recognize Cyprus, which is aleady a member - Turkey believes that Greeks are so weary of the bloc pushing austerity measures on...

Turkey, Greece Push Tourism Collaboration

Greece and Turkey are working together to urge their residents to visit each other's countries.  Tourist agents in Turkey said they expect a substantial increase of Turkish tourists in Greece. “The nine-day vacation for the Feast of the Sacrifice as...

Egemen Bağış Supports Halki Seminary Reopening

Turkey is seriously considering reopening The Greek Orthodox Halki Seminary in Istanbul. The EU Minister Egemen Bağış thinks this could also mean that Greece would build a mosque in Athens, as promised. The Theological School of Halki was founded in 1844...

Turkey Returns Property To Mesochori Community

The Turkish state, after a decision taken by the General Directorate of Foundations (GDF), yielded to the community of Ortaköy (spelled Mesochori in Greek), a small village, within the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, a building that had previously...

Egemen Bagis Talks Chalki Theological School and “Wrongdoings” Against Turkish Minority in Thrace

“Ankara will not treat Turkey’s citizens of Greek-origin in correlation to Athens’ treatment of Turks in Greece,” Turkish Minister for European Affairs Egemen Bagis has said while noting the lack of a mosque in the Greek capital. While Muslims living...

Turkey Reaches Out to Greece, Cut Defence Costs

Faced with the Greek economic crisis, Turkey has proposed Greece to cut the ''non-essential'' defence expenditure of both countries. The proposal was made by Turkey's European Affairs Minister Egemen Bagis, in a press meeting today in Brussels. Bagis is convinced...