Turkey

The Greek population of Istanbul, which was rather forced to leave Turkey because of the sociopolitical situation, is now asking for its citizenship rights’ restoration, Sunday’s Zaman reported. Greeks in İstanbul, known as Rums (Turkey’s Greeks), are finally given the...

The church of Hagia Sofia in Trabzon, north-eastern Turkey, which is a museum today, will be converted into a mosque according to the local Vakif Direction of Trabzon, which is the owner of the estate. The reconstruction works have...

The Greek Education and Culture Attaché in Istanbul, Stauros Gioltzoglou,  in a shot at Germans who want Greeks to work harder - although statistics show they work more than their German counterparts already - said there's more to life...

According to a municipal council decision, given that the local administration cannot afford to restore the building, the historical school in the northwestern province of Bursa’s Tirilye district which former Cypriot President Archbishop Makarios attended, will be demolished if...

With approval earlier this year from Turkish officials for the reopening of a Greek minority school on the island of Imvros, which the Turks call Gökçeada, Greeks are hoping their brethren will come back. The bell in the Greek school...

The ruins of an ancient mythological cave in Turkey, believed to be the “gate to hell” emitting fatal carbon fumes, has emerged from the northwestern party of the counttry, Italian archaeologists have announced. Known as Pluto's Gate -- Ploutonion in...

A Greek Orthodox elementary school is about to reopen on Imvros Island, as the Minister of National Education of Turkey, Nabi Avci announced. The Ministry accepted the demand to re-open the school for the Greek minority in the same...

Seventy two fifth-graders from the Mandoulides elementary school, Thessaloniki will travel to Turkey, where along with 17 students from the Zografeion Lyceum will take part in the musical-theatrical performance, A Magical City, based on a fairy-tale by Helen Priovolos The performance will be held in the Zografeio...

According to the newspaper Liberal, the Munich Court of Appeals has ordered the return to the Church of Cyprus some 173 ecclesiastical relics (icons, mosaics and mural paintings e.t.c.), that a Turkish smuggler of antiquities, Aydin Dikmen, had looted...

For the first time since the schism of 1054, Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, will attend the inauguration of new Pope Francis, the Vatican radio reported. The spiritual leaders of the world's Orthodox Christians will attend Pope Francis’s inaugural...