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Archaeologists and scholars have spent nearly a century investigating what happened to Alexander the Great and where his tomb is located. Some argue that his tomb is in Macedonia, northern Greece, while others claim it is in Alexandria, Egypt,...

Thousands of worshipers, many waving Turkish flags, gathered at Hagia Sophia for Friday prayers as the UNESCO World Heritage Site was officially inaugurated as a mosque. The 1,500-year-old site became a museum in 1934. But earlier this month, a Turkish...

Michael Goodyear* Hagia Sophia, once Eastern Christianity's greatest cathedral, is undoubtedly one of the most important monuments in today's Istanbul. Steeped in Byzantine history, it served as one of the largest cathedrals in the world, the center of Orthodoxy for nearly...

Turkish hackers claim they took down the website of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras; this is the news making its rounds on Turkish media. Turkish hacker group Aslan NeferTim says that "it is our duty to respond to Greece's reaction to...

The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement condemning Greece's reaction to the reading of the Quran and call for prayer in Hagia Sophia, accusing Greece of not respecting religious freedom. The statement calls on Greece "to be a modern and...

There are alarming developments that Turkey may become the next unstable country in the region with messy consequences. Primarily, there are two reasons for that: the twenty five million persecuted ethnic and stateless Kurdish people that seek autonomy; and...

May 29 marks the 563rd anniversary of the siege and capture of the magnificent Christian Orthodox city of Constantinople, the eastern capital of the Roman Empire, to the forces led by the Ottoman Turkish Sultan, Mohammed (Mehmet) II. A...

According to XanthiNews, a 12-year-old Greek Muslim girl was sent out of class by her teacher because she had not learned the the Quran off by heart. The girl was also mocked by her classmates for the same reason. The...

Turkish officials have slammed legislation that will enable Greek authorities to appoint imams at state schools and mosques in Western Thrace. The amendment voted this week, which will allow religious teachers to teach the Quran, is expected to curb the...

The swearing-in ceremony under Archbishop Ieronymos, the head of Greece's Orthodox Church, for the country's 300 MPs got underway after 11a.m. at the Greek Parliament on Thursday, eleven days after the country's second election. The main item on the agenda...

From Twittering Quranic verses and religious injunctions to using smartphone apps like iPray and iQuran to find the nearest mosque or halal restaurants, the emergence of Muslim social networking is an interesting phenomenon that can perhaps be attributed to...