“The obligation to return the Parthenon sculptures lies squarely with the UK government.” Greek PM Kriakos Mitsotakis calls for talks with the UK, offers to loan treasures to the British Museum in exchange for the Parthenon sculptures.
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The current population of Turkey is about 80 million, but Christians and Jews only comprise…
The Greek fleet, led by Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, started from the bay of Moudros in…
October 31, 1912 marks the anniversary of the sinking of the Feth-i Bülend Ottoman warship…
On this day, we remember the innocent victims of the Massacres of Amida (Άμιδα, Turkish:…
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.
The epic of the inhabitants of Chalastra, October 22-24, 1912 – The First Balkan War.…
On this day, the Greek army entered Kozani during the early fighting of the First…
During the First Balkan War, the Greek Navy under Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, liberated the…
The Balkan League, consisting of Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and Montenegro, declared the First Balkan War…
With tears in my eyes, I read the public apology of Archbishop Elpidophoros of America,…
On September 23rd, 1821, the rebellious Greeks won a significant victory against the Turks, which…
Dionysios Philosophos (1541 – September 11, 1611), born in Paramythia, Thesprotia, Epirus, but with roots…
On this day in 1823, Greek Independence war hero Markos Botsaris was martyred when 350…
That we’ve broken their statues, that we’ve driven them out of their temples, doesn’t mean…
The 1822 massacre of Chios by the Ottomans and the historical emigration from the island…
In this second edition of our weekly column ‘The Parthenon Report’, Classicist, Olympian and strategic advisor Don Morgan Nielsen addresses the question: “What role does our Parthenon play in this new era, as a monument and as a symbol?”
The Arab Council of Australia called for Prime Minister Scott Morrison to recognise the Ottoman-Turkish…
Michalakis Karaolis and Andreas Dimitriou were the first fighters of the Cyprus Struggle to be…
After decades and decades of endless lobbying by the highly motivated Armenian diaspora in the…