Turkey

Every year, the European Union and Europa Nostra give awards to the best cultural heritage achievements which range from restored monuments to urban rehabilitation, research and education projects. This year, out of 140 participants, 2 Greek restoration...

Eight photographers from as many Balkan countries demonstrate with their photographs the particularity of each people, the contemporaneous artistic tendencies, the life and historical developments in a region which has been constantly changed. The exhibition opens at the Kara...

A street in İzmir’s Gaziemir district has been named after world-renowned Greek singer Haris Alexiou. A ceremony was held Saturday in the Aegean district with the participation of Alexiou and other special guests. The street where Alexiou’s father was born...

Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Athens on Friday on a two-day official visit, and was currently meeting with Greek prime minister George Papandreou. Erdogan was received at Athens' Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport by Greece's...

The 17th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival will be organized from June 7 to 13 in the Mediterranean city of Adana. One of the most rooted festivals in Turkey with 41-year history, the festival will screen more than...

“What do the Greek songs speak Of night, of love What do the Greek songs speak Of our lives”, Wrote in 1977, the great Turkish poet Ataol Behramoglu, in his poetry collection, released in Greece in 1981, from “Modern Times”, entitled “Turkey my...

George Alkaios brought to reality his biggest dream this morning when he met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Constantinople (foto). He met with the Patriarch to receive his blessing for representing Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. It should...

A 10-episode HBO miniseries about World War II will air in Turkey minus a scene featuring dialogue about “Turks torch Smyrna” after recapturing the Aegean city from the Greek Army during the war of independence. “The Pacific,” a co-production by...

The creation of a Theological Seminary in Alexandroupolis or another area in Greece close in proximity to Istanbul, and recourse to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, are a few of the Ecumenical Patriarchate's options in the...

A Greek man has sued a dairy firm in southern Sweden after his picture ended up on a Turkish yoghurt product. The man whose picture adorns the Turkish yoghurt product, manufactured by Lindahls dairy in Jönköping, argues that the company...