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More Than 70 Confirmed Dead in Turkey After Aegean Sea Earthquake

The powerful earthquake that hit the Aegean Sea on Friday has killed 76 people in Turkey, the country's disaster agency said Sunday. Two people also died on the Greek island of Samos. Rescue workers continue to search for survivors under...

Two Teenagers Killed as Powerful Earthquake and Tsunami Hit Greece's Samos Island

Two high school students were killed during the powerful earthquake, measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale, which struck the Greek island of Samos on Friday afternoon. Reportedly, the teenagers, a boy and girl, aged 15 and 17 respectively, were walking...

Archbishop Elpidophoros Sends Message to Quake-Ravaged Greece and Turkey

In a message posted on Friday morning on Twitter, Archbishop Elpidophoros, the leader of all the Greek Orthodox faithful of the Americas, sent his condolences and prayers to all those who hav been impacted by the earthquake that struck...

Seven Dead as Buildings Collapse, Tsunami Hits Turkish Coast After Aegean Earthquake

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter scale struck just under the  Aegean Sea on Friday afternoon, causing a great deal of damage in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir (Smyrna) and the Greek island...

Turkish Company Launches Ferry Services Between Athens and Izmir

Ferryboat services between the Greek coastal town of Lavrion, near Athens, and Cesme, near Turkey's Izmir, will begin as of June 2, 2019, according to the Turkish shipping company which will operate along the route. Turkish newspaper the Daily Sabah reports...

Turkey's Erdogan Threatens to "Throw Greeks Into the Sea" (video)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued his recent spate of hostile rhetoric against the Greek people by threatening to throw them into the sea. The remarks were made during a speech he gave in Smyrna (Izmir) on Saturday. Erdogan quoted...

At Least 22 Migrants Dead in Turkey’s Izmir (video)

According to information from the Turkish News Agency Anadolu, at least 22 migrants, including children, died on Sunday and 11 more were seriously injured after a truck that was carrying them overturned. Many ambulances arrived at the scene of the tragedy. The...

Greece's Foreign Minister Kotzias Replies to Turkey's Cavusoglu

The issue of the 8 Turkish Military Officers who fled to Greece in order to escape prosecution is still an issue that creates problems between Turkey and Greece. During the inauguration of the revamped Greek Consulate in Turkey's Izmir city...

Revamped Greek Consulate Opens in Turkey’s Izmir

Greece's foreign minister Nikos Kotzias inaugurated on Tuesday the renovated building of the Consulate General of the Hellenic Republic in Turkey's Izmir. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Mevlut Cavusoglu, also attended the ceremony. In addition to its symbolic and...

Hundreds Rally in Turkey in Solidarity to Fire-Stricken Greece

Hundreds of Turkish citizens rallied outside the historic building housing the Consulate General of Greece in Izmir in solidarity to fire-stricken Greece. Greece's Consul General Argyro Papoulia posted pictures of the crowd that gathered outside the consulate on Thursday night...