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Pluto’s Gate To Hell Found In Turkey

The ruins of an ancient mythological cave in Turkey, believed to be the “gate to hell” emitting fatal carbon fumes, has emerged from the northwestern party of the counttry, Italian archaeologists have announced. Known as Pluto's Gate -- Ploutonion in...

Greek Orthodox School to Reopen on Imvros

A Greek Orthodox elementary school is about to reopen on Imvros Island, as the Minister of National Education of Turkey, Nabi Avci announced. The Ministry accepted the demand to re-open the school for the Greek minority in the same...

Greek Students’ Magical City Tour in Istanbul

Seventy two fifth-graders from the Mandoulides elementary school, Thessaloniki will travel to Turkey, where along with 17 students from the Zografeion Lyceum will take part in the musical-theatrical performance, A Magical City, based on a fairy-tale by Helen Priovolos The performance will be held in the Zografeio...

Smuggled Relics Will Return To Cyprus

According to the newspaper Liberal, the Munich Court of Appeals has ordered the return to the Church of Cyprus some 173 ecclesiastical relics (icons, mosaics and mural paintings e.t.c.), that a Turkish smuggler of antiquities, Aydin Dikmen, had looted...

Patriarch Bartholomew to Attend Pope Francis Inauguration

For the first time since the schism of 1054, Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, will attend the inauguration of new Pope Francis, the Vatican radio reported. The spiritual leaders of the world's Orthodox Christians will attend Pope Francis’s inaugural...

Greek Fugitives Caught In Turkey

Three of seven inmates who escaped from a Greek prison were captured after crossing into Turkey by swimming across a river, Today's Zaman, Turkish newspaper reported, and will be sent back to Greece. The inmates got out through a window...

Turkey Leans Toward Opening Halki Seminary

After years of resistance, the Turkish government is considering allowing the re-opening of the closed Halki Seminary, the Anatolia News agency reported. Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç said the institution should be reopened to educate clerics for the Orthodox...

Greek Designers Show Greece’s Good Side

Crisis is a Greek Word is the title of the Greek Designers global initiative to describe Greece during its crisis. The country's deep recession and harsh austerity has inspired 50 top Greek Visual Communication Designers, with more than 1,240...

Erdogan Hosts Samaras, Greek Business Leaders

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Greek counterpart Antonis Samaras are set to participate in a joint business event on  March 4 in Istanbul that seeks to boost trade between the two countries, the event's host said,...

Boutaris Gets Turkey’s Thanks On Heritage

Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Omer Celik met with Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris, in Ankara and thanked him for his sensitivity over the protection of Turkish and Ottoman artifacts in Thessaloniki. Boutaris told Turkish reporters about the construction of...