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US Urges Turkey to Immediately Reopen the Halki Seminary

The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged Turkey on Friday to immediately reopen the Greek Orthodox Christian Seminary of Halki, near Istanbul. During his initial remarks before the release of the 2018 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom in...

US Ambassador Says US Supports the Reopening of Halki Seminary

Sam Brownback, the American Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, has stated that the United States will support the reopening of the Halki Theological School in Turkey. Brownback made the comments during an interview with the state-run AMNA...

AUTH's Rehabilitation Study On Halki Restoration

The rehabilitation study for the Theological School of Halki prepared by the Faculty of Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, was presented on May 30 by the faculty’s working group before the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate...

Halki Seminary Gets 470 Acres From Turkey

Turkey’s Council of Foundations - part of Turkey's Directorate General for Foundations (VGM) agreed on Jan. 11 to return 190 hectares, some 470 acres, of forest land to the Greek Orthodox Halki (Heybeliada) Seminary in İstanbul. According to the decision,...

PM Tsipras Tells Turks ''We Can Coexist Without Fear and Hatred''

The Greek Prime Minister gave an interview this week to the Turkish TGRT Haber television channel while he was in Turkey visiting Ankara, Istanbul and Halki. The full interview will be broadcast on Sunday. In a snippet of the interview shown...

Turkey's Erdogan Asks Greek PM to Repatriate Eight Turkish Soldiers

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on Greece on Tuesday to cooperate in the repatriation of eight soldiers who fled to Greece following a 2016 coup attempt. Erdogan made the remarks in a joint news conference with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras...

Greek-American Fraternity Build Ties on Greece, Cyprus Trip

Members of a Greek-American fraternity have been in Greece for a series of high-level meetings following a fact-finding trip to Cyprus. The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA), founded in 1922 "in response to the evils of bigotry and racism...

The Complete (Greek) Guide to Travel in Istanbul

Istanbul is a great city to experience, but for Greeks it has a special meaning as the Byzantine and Greek foundations of what was once the known world’s largest metropolis can be seen everywhere.

«Tracing Istanbul» Art Exhibition Opens at Technopolis

Following its hosting at the Holy Theological School of Halki and Istanbul’s Sismanoglio Hall, a group exhibition entitled “Tracing Istanbul” and featuring 101 Greek artists last night took up residence at the City of Athens Technopolis, in the Kostis...

Greek PM Mitsotakis Meets Turkish President Erdogan in New York

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis held a meeting with Recep Tayyip Erdogan in New York on Wednesday, his first with the Turkish president since he became prime minister in July. The meeting, lasting 45 minutes, was held concurrent with a...

Greek PM Tsipras Visits Hagia Sophia; Calls for Reopening of Seminary

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras paid a symbolic visit on Wednesday to Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia and the Orthodox Seminary of Halki during the second day of his visit to Turkey. Tsipras refrained from making any statement to the assembled...

Turkish PM Addresses Greek Muslims of Thrace as Being Turks

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim visited the Komotini Mosque on Monday addressing the Muslim population of the area as being Turks. The Turkish PM visited Thrace after he had official meetings with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and President of...

Tsipras-Erdogan Meeting at UN World Humanitarian Summit

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met on the sidelines of the UN World Humanitarian Summit being held in Istanbul. The men met for 50 minutes and focused on a number of issues, including...

Samaras and Erdogan to Meet Privately at NATO Summit

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will have an unofficial meeting at Cardiff on Thursday during one of the breaks of the annual NATO summit, according to reports in Athens, Greece. This “out of protocol” meeting was...