The Greek fleet, led by Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, started from the bay of Moudros in Lemnos on the night of November 7 and anchored in the early hours of November 8, 1912…
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On this day, we remember the innocent victims of the Massacres of Amida (Άμιδα, Turkish: Diyarbakır), more commonly known as the Hamidian Massacres. On November 1, 1895, local Muslims, mostly Turks and…
October 31, 1912 marks the anniversary of the sinking of the Feth-i Bülend Ottoman warship by the Greek Navy during the First Balkan War. During the First Balkan War, a Greek torpedo…
On this day in 1912, the commander of the 8th Turkish army corps, Hasan Tahsin Pasha, signed the protocol officially surrendering Thessaloniki to the advancing Greek Army during the First Balkan War.…
Lethal Nationalism: Genocide of the Greeks 1913 – 1923 is a historical documentary that for the first time charts Ottoman Empire’s and Turkish Nationalists Genocide of its 3,000-year-old ethnic Greek population, taking only 10 years to destroy over 3 millennia of history.
Turkey resides in a perilous neighborhood surrounded by historical rivalries, stemming back from the Ottoman, which pose a constant threat to the country’s geopolitical imperatives. There is the Balkan peninsula, which consists…
Recent developments in the Middle East and South Caucasus, Turkey’s direct involvement and war against Armenia now and their backing of terrorists already make one posit a question: whither are we heading…
Last week, the roof of the legendary Prinkipo Greek Orphanage in Turkey began collapsing and continues to collapse inward, placing the entire structure in grave danger of ruin. According to Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir…
On September 23rd, 1821, the rebellious Greeks won a significant victory against the Turks, which led the way to the final liberation of Greece from the Ottomans. The siege and the fall…
The provocative actions and statements from Turkey in recent times has provoked a strong reaction, even from countries that have in the past shown a “favorably neutral” attitude towards Turkey. This happened…
On this day in 1823, Greek Independence war hero Markos Botsaris was martyred when 350 Souliote Greeks he led attacked thousands of Ottomans during the Battle of Karpenisi. When the Greek War…
A popular YouTube channel with nearly 470,000 subscribers has paid homage to a Greek ship that terrorized the Ottoman Navy during the First Balkan War. The World of Warships Official Channel, the…
Yesterday marked the 100-year anniversary from when the Treaty of Sèvres was signed. The Treaty of Sèvres saw the Ottoman Empire dismembered, with Greece, Syria and Armenia gaining old lost lands, an…
Although Turks think of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk fondly as the founder of the modern Turkish Republic, Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians remember him as one of the main perpetrators of genocide against Christian…
Murat Karayılan, commander of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant wing known as the People’s Defence Forces, spoke about the current developments in eastern Turkey and neighbouring Kurdish-inhabited regions on a special…
Odysseas Androutsos was born on the Ionian island of Ithaca in 1788 and was the only son of the famous Arvanite bandit Andrea Verousi, also known as Captain Androutsou. His mother, who…
On this day in 1913, the Balkan League, consisting of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, utterly defeated the Ottoman Empire, nearly expelling the Turks entirely from Europe. Montenegro, the smallest country in…
“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…
It has become a near daily occurrence that someone in Turkey, whether they be media, political or military, express their delusions of occupying a part of Greece – particularly Western Thrace, the…
The proud blue and white flag of Greece will wave in the port of Alexandroupolis, while a special crane will be used to raise the flag. The largest Greek flag, with an…