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Leading Orthodox members from various countries will meet in Istanbul on March 3 and 4 for a conference entitled The Social Dimension of Monotheistic Religion. Organized by The Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO), established upon the initiative of the...

On Feb. 22, for the first time in his career, the renowned Greek singer Giannis Parios gave a concert in Istanbul in the presence of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. The event was organized by the Amateur Theater Group, the Greek...

Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK) will organize Turkey-Greece Business Forum in Istanbul on March 4, Anatolia news agency reports today adding that the event will be held under coordination of the Ministry of Economy and in cooperation with Turkish...

The Turkish alcohol company Mey İçki is pushing to double its sales of raki in Greece, reaching the amount of 60,000 liters in competition with Greek brands of the famous fiery liquor. Galip Yorgancıoglu, the CEO of Mey İçki, in an...

According to the Daily Mail, the disgraced Turkish-Cypriot tycoon Asil Nadir, has reportedly paid £5 million (5.7 million euros) in compensation to his devastated investors in Britain and could now fly home within months. “Broke” Nadir had no other choice;...

According to the Turkish newspaper Milliyet, Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew said that Greece's crushing economic crisis has made life so desperate that many people are moving to Turkey. The newspaper said that the Patriarch noted that Greeks who left the...

Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos arrived in Ankara on Friday for talks with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, who visited Athens last October. The talks between the two men, as Kathimerini reports, are designed to prepare the ground for the...

"Greece has rejected Turkey's offer to finance the construction of a mosque in Athens, the only European capital with no mosque", the Turkish newspaper Zaman reported. "The Greek government will fund the construction of a mosque in Athens," Deputy Foreign...

Media reports in Turkey have suggested that the suicide bomber who blew himself up outside the United States Embassy in Ankara on Feb. 1 had crossed into the country from Greece. The bomber, identified as 40-year-old leftist militant Ecevit Sanli,...

New Health Minister of Turkey Mehmet Müezzinoğlu claims proud of being appointed as a minister of the Turkish government, despite being born and raised in Greece as a Greek citizen until the age of 28, according to a Hurriyet...