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Greeks on Tenedos Celebrate the Epiphany Feast Day
The few Greeks that still live on Tenedos and in Smyrni, Turkey, celebrated the Epiphany Feast yesterday with a glorious ceremony. On the eve of the Epiphany, the first blessing was held on Tenedos and...
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Epiphany Day in Bosporus
Greek Orthodox faithful swam in İstanbul’s iconic Golden Horn to retrieve a wooden crucifix thrown into the Bosporus during Epiphany day celebrations on Monday. Priests and Orthodox Christians were...
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Athlete Asks for Support to Swim from Smyrna to Greece
Alper Sunaçoğlu, a veteran Turkish swimmer stated that he wants to swim from Smyrna to Athens in order to contribute to Greek-Turkish relations. However Sunaçoğlu didn’t receive the support he expected...
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Greek Vindicated for Turkish Property Rights Violation
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) announced their decision earlier on Tuesday, condemning Turkey for violating the right to property, in the case concerning the refusal of the Turkish...
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Turkey: Conference “on ‘Legal Entities of non-Muslims: Problems and Rights’
A conference on “Legal entities of non-Muslims: problems and rights” organized by Istanbul Bilgi University was held in Istanbul for the purpose of discussing legal issues that concern the...
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Greece in 7th Place for Human Rights Violations
According to the annual report of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) released on Thursday, January 30 by the president of the Court Dean Spielmann, Greece is in 7th place for recorded human...
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Greek Mystery of a “Lost Church” in Ancient Greek City Nicaea
Recently, some archeologists discovered a Church on the shore of the Lake İznik. İznik, historically known as ancient city of Greece called Nicaea, is a town and an administrative district in the...
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Legal Battle of Greeks in Istanbul
The Greek community of Istanbul has turned to the Turkish Court asking for the return of three orthodox churches and many other properties that were given by the Turkish state in the so-called...
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Turkey to Restore Citizenship to Exchanged Greeks
The Turkish State is trying to find a way to reinstate Greek nationals who were forced to leave Turkey 50 years ago as part of the population exchange between Turkey and Greece. The chairman of the...
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European Parliament Signs Migration Deal With Turkey
The European Parliament sealed a deal on Wednesday, between the EU and Turkey regarding immigration issues. The agreement was signed last year in December. This bilateral pact is called “readmission”...
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Orthodox Church Hierarchs Meet at Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul
A three-day meeting of the heads of the Autocephalous Orthodox Churches was launched at the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul on Thursday, chaired by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. The meeting...
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Student Congress on Greek Poet George Seferis
Students, academics, authors, actors and journalists will participate in the student congress “George Seferis: From Smyrna to Istanbul” that will be held at Istanbul’s Zografeion Lyceum from 20 to 23...
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Ecumenical Patriarch: “Hagia Sophia should not be turned into a Mosque”
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has expressed strong opposition to the potential conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque. He was speaking during a debate about whether or not Hagia Sophia should...
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Antiochian Patriarchate Withdraws from Synaxis
An unexpected development occurred during the Synaxis of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches and its preparatory meetings held at the Headquarters of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul from...
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Istanbul: School Conference on Greek Poet G. Seferis
The life and work of Greek poet Giorgos Seferis is being studied by students, academics, writers, actors and journalists, at a student conference launched today by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew,...
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Costas Gavras Movie Used Against Turkey Twitter Ban
The ban on Twitter imposed in Turkey by Prime Minister Erdogan’s government has caused intense reactions among the Turkish people, with some protesters using the work of famous Greek-French filmmaker...
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Chios Dancers to Perform Outside Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia
A cultural club from the Greek island of Chios will represent Greece in the International Folk Dance Festival in Istanbul which is held by the Fatih Municipality. The festival will take place from...
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Hagia Sophia Still Drawing the Crowds After 1450 Years
Data from Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Ministry ranks Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia as the country’s second-most-visited monument this year, at a time when Turkish nationalists seek to turn this great...
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2014 Greek Almanac Published in Istanbul
Over the years, the Greek nation has acquired many names; Hellenes, the Latin Graeci (Greeks), the Turkish Yunan. By late Antiquity, the Greeks referred to themselves as Graikoi (Greeks) and...
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Greek to Turkish Translation Workshop
The Consulate General of Greece in Istanbul and Istos publishing house will hold a two-day workshop for translation from Greek to Turkish in Istanbul from on May 17-18 at the Sismanoglio Megaro. The...
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