Izmir
Greece
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...
Greece
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...
Greece
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...
Europe
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...
Greece
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...
Europe
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...