Smyrna
Greece
Two Teenagers Killed as Powerful Earthquake and Tsunami Hit Greece's Samos Island
Two high school students were killed during the powerful earthquake, measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale, which struck the Greek island of Samos on Friday afternoon.
Reportedly, the teenagers, a boy and girl, aged 15 and 17 respectively, were walking...
Greek church
Archbishop Elpidophoros Sends Message to Quake-Ravaged Greece and Turkey
In a message posted on Friday morning on Twitter, Archbishop Elpidophoros, the leader of all the Greek Orthodox faithful of the Americas, sent his condolences and prayers to all those who hav been impacted by the earthquake that struck...
Europe
Seven Dead as Buildings Collapse, Tsunami Hits Turkish Coast After Aegean Earthquake
A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter scale struck just under the Aegean Sea on Friday afternoon, causing a great deal of damage in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir (Smyrna) and the Greek island...
Diplomacy
Turkey's Erdogan Elevates Anti-Greek Rhetoric
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's rhetoric appears to be coming to an anti-Greek crescendo as he campaigns for his ruling party's candidates in the upcoming March 31 local elections.
Speaking in Smyrna (Izmir) on Sunday he used extreme nationalist rhetoric...
Celebrities
Aristotle Onassis: The Triumph of the Ultimate Underdog
Aristotle Onassis was one of the richest men in history and certainly one of the most famous Greeks in the entire world during the 20th century.
How did this young boy from Smyrna manage to amass a fortune while becoming...
Diplomacy
Turkey's Erdogan Threatens to "Throw Greeks Into the Sea" (video)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued his recent spate of hostile rhetoric against the Greek people by threatening to throw them into the sea. The remarks were made during a speech he gave in Smyrna (Izmir) on Saturday.
Erdogan quoted...
Diplomacy
Erdogan Claims Greeks Burned Smyrna in 1922
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan unofficially kicked off his re-election campaign on Saturday by trying to revise history in claiming that the destruction of the city of Smyrna in 1922 was the work of the Greeks.
Speaking at the Chamber of Commerce...
Greece
Armenian Genocide Remembered on April 24 (video)
The starting date of the Armenian Genocide is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported from Constantinople (now Istanbul) to the region of Ankara 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals...
Europe
Jet Crash Kills Turkish Military Pilots
Turkey's military has confirmed that two of its pilots were killed on Friday morning near Smyrna when their training jet crashed.
The SF-260D craft went down after taking off from the Cigli/Izmir 2nd Main Jet Base. Wreckage was found about three kilometers...
Europe
Arson Attempt at Greek Consulate Building in Smyrna
Unknown assailants tried to set fire to the Greek Consulate building in Smyrna on New Year's Eve, a Kathimerini newspaper report says.
The "Emmanouil Kapetanakis" house on the historic waterfront of Smyrna, is the building that has been hosting the Greek...