Istanbul

The Consulate General of Greece in Istanbul and Istos publishing house will hold a two-day workshop for translation from Greek to Turkish in Istanbul from on May 17-18 at the Sismanoglio Megaro. The workshop’s aim is the linguistic, technical and...

Over the years, the Greek nation has acquired many names; Hellenes, the Latin Graeci (Greeks), the Turkish Yunan. By late Antiquity, the Greeks referred to themselves as Graikoi (Greeks) and Rhomaioi/Romioi (Romans), which was used since virtually all Greeks...

Data from Turkey's Culture and Tourism Ministry ranks Istanbul's Hagia Sophia as the country's second-most-visited monument this year, at a time when Turkish nationalists seek to turn this great monument of Christianity into a mosque. Topkapı Palace is Turkey most-visited monument, attracting 796,588 visitors, or 20% of...

A cultural club from the Greek island of Chios will represent Greece in the International Folk Dance Festival in Istanbul which is held by the Fatih Municipality. The festival will take place from April 22 to April 25. The...

Approximately 800-1000 Greeks have settled in Turkey, mostly in Istanbul due to the economic crisis in Greece, as mentioned in a BBC show. According to the BBC report, a coffee shop in Cihangi, Istanbul, is always filled with Greeks who come...

Istanbul is a city full of contradictions, a crossroad of civilizations where tradition fuses with modernity. Such is the theme of the work by two Athens-raised, Istanbul-based friends, painter Olga Alexopoulou and writer Alex Massavetas, whose exhibition opens at Athens' IANOS  bookstore on April 1.  The two...

The life and work of Greek poet Giorgos Seferis is being studied by students, academics, writers, actors and journalists, at a student conference launched today by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, in Istanbul. The conference is entitled: "Giorgos Seferis. From...

Turkish media report that National Bank of Greece, which owns Finansbank in Turkey, has bought one of Istanbul's tallest skyscrapers, the 40-story "Crystal Tower",  for 303 million dollars. The 170-meter Crystal Tower was sold to the National Bank by Koru Property Investments, a subsidiary...

The Greek -Armenian artist Hera Buyuktasciyan will present the history of the Greeks of Istanbul and their deportation in 1964 through a very interesting project entitled "20 Dollars, 20 Kilos" based on interviews of people who experienced the events first...

The Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, has extended an invitation to fourteen Orthodox Church patriarchs and archbishops to gather in Istanbul for a three-day meeting to take place in March. The patriarchs and archbishops who will meet at the Fener...