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45,000 Turks in Kastellorizo …for Holidays

The Turkish daily newspaper Vatan tried to describe the high interest of Turkish tourists to visit Kastellorizo in an article entitled “To the Greek island of the 400 habitants will go 45,000 Turks”. Of course, these 45,000 tourists expected...

Rocket Easter of Chios Advertised in Turkey

According to the Greek daily Dimokratia, the coasts of Turkey have been teeming with posters lately advertising the Greek Easter on the island of Chios. Typical Greek Easter breads (tsourekia), red dyed eggs, white and blue churches as well...

First European National Tourism Observatory in Greece

On March 27, the Greek Tourism Minister Olga Kefaloyianni during the 55th session of the Organization's Committee in Europe, signed a cooperation memorandum for the establishment of a National Tourism Observatory, regarding the sustainable development of tourism, with the...

Greek Designers Show Greece’s Good Side

Crisis is a Greek Word is the title of the Greek Designers global initiative to describe Greece during its crisis. The country's deep recession and harsh austerity has inspired 50 top Greek Visual Communication Designers, with more than 1,240...

How Smyrna Was Burned to the Ground – 90 Years Later

The first fire broke out in the late afternoon of September 13, 1922, four days after the Turkish Army had entered the city. The blaze began in the Armenian quarter of the city, and spread quickly due to the...

Refugee Boat Capsizes off Turkey, 60 Dead

At least 60 migrants, most of them Palestinian and more than half of them children, died after their overcrowded boat sank just tens of meters off Turkey’s western Aegean coast on Sept. 6, a district official said. Tahsin Kurtbeyoglu, Governor...