Turkey

Reopening Istanbul’s closed Halki Greek Orthodox Seminary is not being considered by the Turkish government right now, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ said on Aug. 18 on a visit to the Western Thrace region of Greece, seeming to put...

Hundreds of Greek Orthodox Christians gathered for the annual religious service at the Sumela Monastery in Turkey's Black Sea coastal province of Trabzon on Wednesday morning, marking the third religious ceremony to be held at the monastery in the...

Turkey expects a lot of foreign interest in its estate market, but is imposing restrictions on investments from neighboring countries, including Greece. According to recently announced reciprocity regulation, Greek citizens are prohibited from buying estate on the coastal provinces...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated, occasioned by the 2012 Olympic Games taking place in London, that the Olympic flame and by extension, the Olympic torch relay, has a Turkish origin. According to star.gr, during a meeting they had...

A Greek-Turkish marriage is about to take place in Greece on September 1st, according to Turkish newspaper Sabah.  The newspaper hosts an article entitled "Marriage of Polat family member according to German style" and presents the marriage of Turkish Eda Polat...

Greek actress Katerina Moutsatsou will soon travel to Istanbul. The reason for this trip is that she is going to take part in a new film. The Greek actress, who has for long lived in Los Angeles, is expected to leave...

Thousands of Turkish people appear to have chosen the Greek islands for this summer's vacations, especially after the Greek state's decision to make the Visa granting process much easier. The Greek islands most attractive to Turkish visitors are the eastern...

In the past several years, the Turkish market has been turned into a more and more safe haven for national and international investments. Although Greece is struggling with crisis, Greek businessmen have chosen neighboring countries to invest in apparently. The...

Galatasaray President Ünal Aysal’s love story with Fani Grammatikogianni of Greek origin looks rather like a romantic fairytale. The happy couple got married and had a child six months ago. 71-year old Aysal met Fani Grammatikogianni in Geneva six years...

The Mongolians failed to destroy it 700 years ago despite the massacre of 40 friars and 400 Christians. Yet the existence of the oldest functioning Christian monastery in the world, the fifth century Mor Gabriel Monastery in the Tur...