Turkey

After three years of work, a big church in the ancient city of Pisidia, has been unearthed. The 6th-century church may have been destroyed by a big fire in the 11th or 12th century. Hopes have been expressed that the discovery will help archaeologists...

A new draft bill is planned in Turkey to lift state intervention into non-Muslim affairs in a landmark move that will give minority communities more freedom. Non-Muslim minority community representatives met with a Turkish government minister on Wednesday in the...

Sunday was a joyous day for the Orthodox Christians of Smyrna, as the consecration of Erythrae Bishop Cyrillus was the first since 1922. The consecration rite was performed by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in a holy liturgy where several hierarchs and...

Easing EU fears, a senior Turkish official on Saturday said his country would fully implement its part of a deal meant to keep migrants from Europe's shores even if the European Union refuses to abolish visas for Turkish citizens....

The U.N. refugee agency estimates nearly 4,200 people have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea since Alan Kurdi’s lifeless body washed ashore on a Turkish beach one year ago. During the first eight months of this year,...

"Türkiye Kültürel Varlıkları Haritası" (Turkey's Map of Cultural Heritages) is a new digital platform that brings together Armenian, Greek, Jewish and Syriac cultural heritages, says a Daily Sabah report. Still in progress, the map records information on churches, schools, monasteries,...

On Saturday in the Yumurtalık district of central Adana province in Turkey, a mosaic depicting the Greek God Poseidon was discovered, according to the Doğan News Agency. The excavation was executed by Osmaniye Korkut Ata University Archeology Department students at...

A 31 year-old Greek national from the island of Rhodes was arrested in Turkey for transporting 50kg of heroin from the neighboring country to Greece. The young man claims that he had no knowledge of what he was transporting...

Turkish authorities notified the Ecumenical Patriarchate that the license for the yearly mass at Panagia Sumela Monastery in Trabzon is revoked. After five consecutive years during which it was allowed to have Orthodox Christian divine liturgy on August 15 at Panagia Sumela Monastery...

Turkey's foreign minister Melvut Cavusoglu said that the agreement with the European Union on stemming the migrant flow is at risk if Europe fails to deliver visa-free travel for Turks. Cavusoglu warned Brussels that the EU has until October to...