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…
Tag: Ottoman
The Arkadi Monastery (Μονή Αρκαδίου) is one of Crete’s most venerated symbols of freedom. By the mid-19th century, the Ottomans had occupied Crete for more than two centuries, despite frequent bloody uprisings…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
After years of rapprochement with its neighbours in the Middle East, Turkey appears to be losing its reputation that it has previously gained due to Turkey’s new policy of “Problems Every Where”.…
German policy towards the Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah and the takfiri groups has included an internal dimension and external dimensions since the arrival of the first group of the Brotherhood leaders to Germany…
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…
Naturally, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will claim he’s standing up for Palestine, but in reality, this is just an expression of the war within the Sunni bloc of Islam, with Turkey…
The naval battle of Eressos is considered the first frontal naval battle by the Greek navy during the Greek Revolution of 1821. A battle against the intimidating two-wheeled ship of the Imperial…
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…
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…
President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Anastasiadis and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akıncı who supports the unification of Cyprus and opposes Turkey’s influence on the island, discussed developments about the spread…
The Theriso revolt (Επανάσταση του Θερίσου) was an insurrection that broke out in March 1905 against the government of Crete, then an autonomous state under Ottoman suzerainty. The revolt was led by…
The city of Thessaloniki is hosting the 3rd International Contemporary Art Fair (TICAF), which opens its doors this Thursday at the Thessaloniki International Exhibition Centre. TICAF will be exhibiting a total of…
Chania’s stunning Domus Renier Boutique Hotel, located in the Venetian harbor has been awarded the “Best Historic Hotel in Europe 2018.” More than 200 hotels participated in the contest by Historic Hotels…
New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the Prespes Agreement was “shameful” for the country and Greek people and repeated that his party would not ratify it. “New Democracy is reiterating that it…