Greece

Over the past few years, the Greek city of Thessaloniki has been a popular destination for Turkish couples, who wish to get married at the Turkish consulate of the city; the house of Kemal Ataturk - the founder of...

On Thursday, thousands of Turks lined outside the house in Thessaloniki where Kemal Atatürk was born, to honor the day of his death on November 10, 1938. The house of the emblematic Turkish leader, which now serves as a museum, is...

Thousands of people have traveled from Turkey to the city of Thessaloniki in Northern Greece to commemorate the 77th anniversary of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's death, in his childhood home. Kemal Ataturk, who is considered the father of the modern Turkish...

Mustafa Kemal - who was granted the title "Ataturk," father of the Turks - founder of modern Turkey, was commemorated today by Turks across the world. The Turkish leader of the early 20th century passed away at the age of...

The house of the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, in Thessaloniki reopens to the public, exhibiting personal belongings and household objects. The museum had received criticism that there were no personal belongings of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on...

Many Turkish citizens arrived today in Thessaloniki to commemorate Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on the 75th anniversary of his death and pay their respects outside the house he was born in, in 1881. Mehmet Müezzinoğlu-–Minister of Health--was also attending and...

Yesterday afternoon, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew made a visit to the childhood home-museum of the historical leader of Turkey, Kemal Ataturk, which is located within the Turkish Consulate complex. Mr. Bartholomew, accompanied by prelates of the Patriarchate, was welcomed by...

Greek basketball player Kostas Sloukas, who plays for the Turkish basketball team Fenerbahce was subjected to intense criticism across Turkish social media after he failed to hold a banner commemorating the death of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on Saturday. Videos uploaded...

A total of twelve protesters were detained by Greek police officers on Thursday morning in Thessaloniki and charged with breaking security measures by entering the city's Kemal Ataturk Museum. A Greek anarchist group claimed responsibility for the protest, which included...

Hundreds of Turkish citizens visited the building of the Turkish Council in Thessaloniki, in which the founder of the modern Turkish state, Kemal Ataturk, was allegedly born, on Friday; the 79th anniversary since Ataturk's death. Approximately 30 buses and individual...

MYTILENE, Greece – Crossing the Bosporus from Istanbul to Athens with a university colleague – one the daughter of Turkish immigrants, the other the daughter of Greeks – transported us through a poignant wormhole of parallels between the 20th...

With the backing of Mayor Yiannis Boutaris, the Kemal Ataturk Museum has been inaugurated after its restoration in Thessaloniki and stands as a monument to the man under whose authority Turkey defeated Greece 89 years ago and drove it...

The beginning of the end of the Ottoman Occupation of Greece in 1821, which gave birth to the modern Greek state, and the fall of Smyrna in Asia Minor a century later in 1922 were the bookends for revolutions...

The Greek newspaper Ta Nea has stirred up controversy over a series of Speeches That Changed The World by including Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the modern Republic of Turkey and commander of Turkish forces during a genocide against...

<img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-15085" title="" src="https://greekreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/kemal_360x239.jpeg" alt="" width="198" height="132">The house at the corner of Apostolou Pavlou and Aghiou Dimitriou Street in Thessaloniki, where Mustafa Kemal Ataturk - the founder of modern Turkey - was born in 1881 has been...