Turkey

In a Christmas Eve report, Turkish journal Today’s Zaman claims that Greece snatched 16 Aegean and Mediterranean islands from Turkey because of what it called the Turkish government's negligence. Here is the whole article of Today's Zaman.

Istanbul's Greeks celebrated Christmas with their traditional "kalanda" activity where Zoğrafyon Greek High School students chanted Christmas carols on Istiklal street. Since 2009 Istanbul's Greek community has celebrated Christmas with a special walk on Istiklal street, singing Christmas carols and...

The municipal council of Istanbul has decided to give the permission to rebuild the St. Stefanos (Yeşilköy) Church, the first time the Turkish Republic has allowed an Orthodox religious institution to be renovated. The church is under the aegis of...

Faruk Boyaci, owner of Sirkeci Group Hotels and Vice-president of the Turkish Hotel Owner Association talked exclusively to Greek Reporter about his successful hotel business in Istanbul and his idea of jointly promoting Greece and Turkey as tourist destinations...

The  Mugla Marmaris chamber orchestra and Greek musicians hosted a concert of friendship in the Mediterranian port of Marmaris, southwestern province of Turkey. Orchestra President Altınöz Ahmet Yasar said that within the framework of theTurkish-Greek friendship and co-operation that concerts...

It's been nearly 82 years since Abdülmecid the Last Ottoman Caliph, gave an interview to the Swiss newspaper La Tribune de Geneve, but the Turkish historian Cemil Koçak, in an article in Radical, a Turkish Newspaper, has brought it...

An ancient city with precious and unique mosaics has been discovered by archaeologists in İzmir’s Kemalpaşa neighborhood, a find dating back to around the late Roman or Byzantium period. It is estimated that this unearthed city is one of the...

Istos, the first Greek publishing house in Istanbul in 50 years, begun by a group of seven Greeks and Turks, has released a new Greek language novel, Postponements and Descents (Anavoles kai Katiforoi,) written by Christos Anagnostopoulos. A review...

The Chairman of the Universal Federation of Greeks from Istanbul living in Greece, Nikolas Uzunoglu, met with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu during the latter's formal visit to Athens on October 10 and talked, among other issues, about dual citizenship...

Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou will conduct performances of her own work at the Lütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Center in Istanbul on Oct. 6 in a concert commemorating director Theodoros Angelopoulos, who was killed in a motorcycle accident on...