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…
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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…
Michalakis Karaolis and Andreas Dimitriou were the first fighters of the Cyprus Struggle to be sentenced to death and executed by the British colonial tyrants. Michalakis Karaolis was born on February 13,…
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…
Greek Minister of National Defence, Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos spoke about the incident that took place on Sunday, when Turkish fighter jets harassed the helicopter that himself and the Chief of General Staff General…
There has been an incredible provocation by Turkey today, as Turkish fighter jets harassed the helicopter carrying the Minister of National Defence Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos and the Chief of General Staff General Konstantinos…
Congratulating his Turkish counterparts on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Grand National Assembly last week, Russian Duma deputy Sergey Markov said that Russia is “proud”…
The first ever Foreign Affairs Minister of the Former Yugoslavia Republic of “Macedonia” (now known as “North Macedonia”) after the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, Denko Maleski, has caused an outraged in…
“Huge exercise in the Eastern Mediterranean! Intimidation of the enemy.” This was the headline of Turkish pro-Erdoğan Daily Sabah. They never specifically mentioned Greece, but when they are referring to an “enemy”…