Turkey

It's been nearly 82 years since Abdülmecid the Last Ottoman Caliph, gave an interview to the Swiss newspaper La Tribune de Geneve, but the Turkish historian Cemil Koçak, in an article in Radical, a Turkish Newspaper, has brought it...

An ancient city with precious and unique mosaics has been discovered by archaeologists in İzmir’s Kemalpaşa neighborhood, a find dating back to around the late Roman or Byzantium period. It is estimated that this unearthed city is one of the...

Istos, the first Greek publishing house in Istanbul in 50 years, begun by a group of seven Greeks and Turks, has released a new Greek language novel, Postponements and Descents (Anavoles kai Katiforoi,) written by Christos Anagnostopoulos. A review...

The Chairman of the Universal Federation of Greeks from Istanbul living in Greece, Nikolas Uzunoglu, met with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu during the latter's formal visit to Athens on October 10 and talked, among other issues, about dual citizenship...

Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou will conduct performances of her own work at the Lütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Center in Istanbul on Oct. 6 in a concert commemorating director Theodoros Angelopoulos, who was killed in a motorcycle accident on...

The halls of the Sismanoglio Megaro of the Consulate General of Greece on Sept. 29, teemed with foreigners and locals ringing in the annual European Day of Languages. The day was proclaimed on Dec. 6, 2001, by the Council of...

Greek Minister of Tourism Olga Kefalogianni, met Sept. 25th with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Fener and announced the impending establishment of a Greek National Tourism Organization branch in Istanbul. The Minister denounced the information about selling the building of...

The Turkish Dogan Holding is interested in joining in the purchase of shares in Greece’s sports gambling agency OPAP, which is going on the block as part of a privatization drive by the cash-strapped Greek government. Turkish businessman and Dogan...

Greeks facing hard times in a crushing economic crisis are heading to Turkey to sell their jewelry, desperate for cash as more austerity measures are set to be imposed on workers, pensioners and the poor. A silversmith, who declined to...

Frantic to find cash in a crushing economic crisis, Greece has begun the selling-off of some of its diplomatic properties, putting its Consulate in the Turkish cit of Izmir on the market, the news agency Anadolu reported. The asking...