On September 14 each year, Greek communities worldwide commemorate the Greeks of Asia Minor who were murdered by the governments of the Young Turks and Mustafa Kemal Pasha. This commemoration is part…
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In 2016, Lebanese journalist with Greek roots, George Eid produced the documentary ‘Kalimera men Beirut’, the first of its kind to tell the story of the Greeks who came to Lebanon as…
By Uzay Bulut Much of the international community has been shocked by the news concerning Turkey’s conversion of two historic Hagia Sophia churches into mosques in Istanbul and Trabzon. The famous Hagia…
Popular Rembetika singer Agathonas Iakovidis, passed away on Wednesday aged 65, after suffering a heart attack. Agathonas Iakovadis was born in Evangelismos, Lagada province, Thessaloniki, to refugee parents from Asia Minor. His…
On June 10, 323 BC in the late evening, after battling an unknown illness for nearly two weeks, Alexander the Great (Megas Alexandros), otherwise referred to as the “King of Kings”, quietly…
An ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has threatened a second genocide and an invasion of Greece by saying “this time they may have to swim until Sicily.” İsmet Büyükataman, the…
Since 2017, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan belongs to, has spent $46 million on infrastructure for a national park in memory of the Battle…
“The booklet of originally sixty print pages in the Greek language, published by the war correspondent Konstantinos Faltaits as early as 1921 makes a very depressing reading, for it comprises episodes which…
Just days before the commemoration of the Pontian Greek genocide, a Turkish-language newspaper from Western Thrace in Greece’s northeast and on the Turkish border, effectively denied that a genocide against Pontic Greeks…
A giant banner was hung in memory of the hundreds of thousands of Pontian Greek genocide victims of Turkish barbarism that was part of the wider Greek Genocide that exterminated hundreds of…
The economy is collapsing in Turkey, the Turkish lira reaches record lows against the U.S. Dollar and the Euro, coronavirus is out of control – BUT QUICK, look at the Greeks and…
The first Genocide of the 20th century has been kept silent for 100 years, however the voices of those martyred will no longer be silent thanks to a new documentary, Lethal Nationalism:…
Nearly a million Greeks were killed, while millions more were uprooted from their ancestral homelands in Asia Minor (Turkey), Pontos, and Eastern Thrace as part of the Turks’ campaign of ethnic cleansing…
The Pontian Greek dialect, or more commonly known as Romeika (Ρωμαίικα), is thought to have died as a language in Turkey after the the 1923 population exchange when all the Christian Greeks…
Eleftherios Venizelos (Ελευθέριος Κυριάκου Βενιζέλος) has been named the most prominent politician in Greece’s modern history. Born on the 23rd of August 1864 in Chania, Crete he was the fifth child of Kyriakou Venizelou…
The Federation of Pontian Associations of Australia has asked Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to take a stance against Turkey’s invasion of Syria. The President of the Federation, Peter Stefanidis, recently sent…
Greece’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Nikos Dendias alluded to a possible meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the UN General Assembly in New York, during a…
Eleftherios Venizelos (Ελευθέριος Κυριάκου Βενιζέλος) has been named the most prominent politician in Greece’s modern history. Born on the 23rd of August 1864 in Chania, Crete he was the fifth child of Kyriakou Venizelou…
Maritsa Mavrapidou, one of the three Greek grandmothers who became a symbol of the Lesvos islanders’ solidarity with refugees, has passed away at the age of 90. The photograph that depicted herself…
Fans of the hit movie A Touch of Spice will easily recall the mouth-watering sight of endless herbs and spices strewn across tables, hearty meat and vegetarian dishes and a devilishly syrupy…