Turkey

"Başka Dilde Ask" a.k.a. "Love in Another Language" is directed by İlksen Başarır and has won four awards at the Cyprus International Film Festival. The Turkish film which competed in six categories, won awards in four. The film won best...

An extensive exchange of views on bilateral and multilateral issues will be discussed between Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou during his visit to Athens on the 21st to 22nd of October.  This was announced from the Turkish...

The General Directorate of Foundations Council decided unanimously on Wednesday to reinstate the legal title of Prinkipo (Buyukada) Orphanage to the Ecumenical Patriarchate, in line with the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).  It was confirmed...

An imprisonment sentence was imposed by the Turkish Court of Princes’ Island against the Metropolitan of Moschonissia, Apostolos Daniilidis and a member of the Princes’ Island community, Vassilis Poridis, on the charge of illegal construction of a church in...

The exploitation of Piraeus from COSCO is of particular concern to Turkey. Turkish businessmen are worried that Chinese products will reach Europe via Greece. The Chinese plans to build a transit center in Piraeus where Chinese products will be...

"My Longing Istanbul: Immigration and Longing Stories by Greeks of Istanbul” is an exhibition featuring stories of 47 Greeks of Istanbul who left Istanbul at different times  for different reasons. They know now live in Athens and Thessaloniki. Supported by the Istanbul 2010 European...

Greek-origin French director Angelos Abazoglou (photo) will present his documentary movie: “Douceurs d’Orient” or Oriental Sweetness, at the French Cultural Center.  Abazoglou is the winner of a number of awards at various film and TV festivals for his countless documentaries A Turkish and...

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere was received by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Thursday in Fanar . “A United Europe can not be conceived without Orthodoxy and particularly without this Church here (the Ecumenical Patriarchate) which transmitted the Orthodox civilisation...

Movie buffs in the southern Turkish city of Adana on Monday finally welcomed this year’s Altın Koza (Golden Boll) International Film Festival.  The festival was a belated inauguration for the fete’s 17th edition, which was originally to take place...

The Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos characterized the attempt of a specific team to perform a Divine service in the cathedral of St. Sophia.  It now operates as a museum. The Ecumenical Patriarch declared the move was: “behind our back”. Speaking to pilgrims...