Turkey

The Basketball team of Olympiacos F.C. with its president Yiorgos Angelopoulos has visited Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Phanar. Patriarch expressed his pleasure at having the team there, wished luck to the whole team for the following matches and...

Greek shipowner, Damyen Milonays opened through the subsidiary company Sistem Barter, the first exchange store of goods and services. Through the website of the company http://www.takasdepo.com/ 7,000 products, such as consumer electronics, foodstuffs, and various services can be exchanged...

Paraskevi Tzeveleki, the new-elected ambassador to Adrianople visited Mayor of Adrianople, Hamdi Sedefci at his office. The ambassador stated that she is going to work hard on the increasing cooperation between Turkey and Greece. She also said that she...

"We agreed to work even harder to create a climate of mutual trust and new Confidence Building Measures in order to reduce the mistrust between the two sides", National Defence Minister Panos Beglitis stated after his first meeting...

Students in Turkey’s Greek minority schools are using photocopies instead of books since the books sent from Greece still await approval to be distributed. Minority schools for Greek-Turks in Istanbul have begun their new term without any text books, as...

"We don’t believe in the clash of civilizations", stressed the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew during his meeting with two members of the U.S. Congress at the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Congressmen Steve King from Iowa and Wally Herger from California, accompanied...

Νea Dimokratia Party has accused the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tagip Erdogan of destabilizing relations, collaboration and peace in the Balkan peninsula and Southeastern Europe after the latter’s supportive declarations to FYROM on the name dispute with Greece. Erdoğan was...

Road 35-kilometer-long and 2000 years old was found in the region of Canakkale between Alexandria of Troy and the sacred place of Sminthion. Professor Davut Kaplan, the leader of the excavations, stated that the discovery of this excavation was not...

Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey Ali Babacan stated on Thursday that Greece should not be allowed to face a sovereign default because its massive debt. Babacan emphasized that other Eurozone members could easily follow Greece once it declares that it...

Head of the Board of Directors of Turkish enterprise Fiyapi, Mr. Fikret Inan claimed that “Greeks should not get their hopes up that they might be in position of selling their islands. These islands do not favour investments. Furthermore,...