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At Least 22 Migrants Dead in Turkey’s Izmir (video)
Photo by Anadolu According to information from the Turkish News Agency Anadolu, at least 22 migrants, including children, died on Sunday and 11 more were seriously injured after a truck that was...
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Why was the Ancient Greek City of Hadrianopolis Abandoned?
Turkish archaeologists are set to solve the mystery of the abandonment of the ancient city of Hadrianapolis, in the Eskipazar district of the Black Sea province of Karabuk, according to a Hurriyet...
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Orthodox Split As Russian Church ‘Breaks All Ties’ With Constantinople Over...
Russian Church Following a summit in the capital of Belarus, Minsk, the Patriarchate of Moscow announced that it decided to break all its ties with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, after...
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U.S. Support to the Ecumenical Patriarchate After Orthodox Schism
The United States expressed its support to the decision of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to recognize the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as independent. A spokesman for the Department of...
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At Least 2 Migrants Dead as Boat Sailing Towards Greece Sinks Off Turkey (video)
Video still of the rescue operation at the Turkish coast At least two people have drowned and several others are missing after a boat carrying around 30 migrants sank near Bodrum, off the western coast...
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Turkey Says Installation of Russian S-400 Systems to Begin October 2019
The installation of Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile systems in Turkey will begin in October 2019, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar has announced. Turkey’s purchase of the S-400 systems, which...
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Turkish Exploration Vessel ‘Fatih’ To Begin Operations in East Mediterranean
The Turkish drilling vessel ”Fatih” will start its operation on Wednesday, October 31. Photo by Fatih Donmez Twitter account Turkish Energy Minister, Fatih Donmez has announced that the Turkish...
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Turkish Footballer Calls Istanbul Constantinople, Causes Outcry
Kenan Ozer, the 31-year-old player who stirred the outcry across Turkey. Photo by his personal Twitter account Kenan Özer, the 31-year-old member of the Ankaragücü football team, cause a widespread...
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Caring for the Church of Ukraine: Constantinople’s Calmness Carries the Day
By Evagelos Sotiropoulos * Presided over by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople recently announced a number of...
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Turkey Recalls Diplomat Over Ancient Greek Costume Scandal
The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Saturday recalled its ambassador to Uganda after she was photographed at a reception for Turkey’s annual Republic Day wearing a dress reportedly inspired by ancient...
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Turkish Defense Minister Accuses Greece of Violating Libya’s Territorial Waters
Turkey’s Defense Minister Hulusi Akar has presented maps to the Libyan government in an effort to show that Greece is trying to encroach upon the area of Libya’s continental shelf, Kathimerini says...
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Officials Believe EU-Turkey Migration Agreement Successful
The 2016 EU-Turkey migrant agreement has had a major impact on reducing the number of migrants and refugees to Greece, stated the head of the EU delegation in Turkey, Christian Berger. Speaking in an...
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Putin Blasts Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko speaking with Ecumenical Partiarch Bartholomew I. File photo Russian President Vladimir Putin made scathing remarks concerning the Ecumenical Patriarchate of...
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Ukrainian Church Independent as of January 6, 2019
Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Kiev. Photo by Wikipedia The Autocephaly (independence) of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine will be made official in special ceremonies which will take place in the...
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Turkish Mayor Refers to Himself as “the Mayor of Adrianoupolis”
The Mayor of Edirne, Turkey, Recep Gürkan, has come under attack on social media for welcoming tourists to his province with multilingual posters put up all over the city. Some posters were in Greek...
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Dozens Mark Epiphany by Diving into Constantinople’s Waters (video)
Dozens of Orthodox men dove into Istanbul’s cold waters to retrieve a cross to mark the baptism of Jesus Christ. On Sunday, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I led worshipers in the celebration of the...
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Hagia Sophia Dancer Causes Outrage in Turkey (video)
A video of a ballerina doing a split inside Istanbul’s historic Hagia Sophia Museum on Saturday has caused widespread outrage in nationalist and Islamist circles in Turkey. Turkish newspapers, as well...
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Turks Go Shopping With Donkey To Protest Plastic-Bag Charge
The donkey entered the supermarket and waited patiently as its owners finished their shopping. Photo by Hurriyet A Turkish couple used a donkey and wheelbarrows to carry their groceries this week as a...
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Turkey Approves Construction of First Orthodox Church Since 1923
Turkish authorities have given the go-ahead for the construction of the first Orthodox church in Istanbul since 1923, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported on Wednesday. Bulent Kerimoglu, the mayor...
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Turkey’s Population Reaches 82 Million
Turkey’s population hit 82 million as of the end of 2018, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) said on Friday. Official figures revealed that the population residing in Turkey increased by...
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