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…
Tag: Smyrna
On September 13, 1922, Turkish soldiers at the end of the three-year-long Greco-Turkish War lit fire to Smyrna’s Greek and Armenian quarters and went on a rampage of rape, pillage, and mass…
On this day, 9th September, in 1922, at around 11am, Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna entering the city from the north and riding southward along the Quay. At the time there were…
On August 26, 1959, the Mini Cooper was officially launched by British Greek motor vehicle designer and genius behind the Mini, Alec Issigonis (Αλέξανδρος Ισιγώνης). Issigonis was born in Smyrni on November…
Going viral on social media is a sign wrapped around a statue of Turkey’s founding father Mustafa Kemal Atatürk located in Washington DC. But what exactly did the sign say? “Yes I…
Turkish authorities have ordered the arrest of 414 people, mostly members of the armed forces, for alleged links to Fethullah Gülen’s network, which Ankara accuses of orchestrating the failed 2016 coup against…
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…
A retired colonel and frequent commentator on pro-government TV networks in Turkey, advocated a view of killing non-Turks and non-Muslims in Turkey during a private phone conversation that was intercepted by investigators…
Turkey accused Greece’s parliament on Tuesday for supposed “baseless and delirious statements” about the Greek Genocide in Pontus. Turkish state-run media Anadolu Agency said Greece’s statements were “under the pretext of marking…
Graffiti was sprayed on the path in front of the Pontian Genocide Monument in Arnissa, a town in the Pella regional unit of Macedonia, on the occasion of May 19, the Pontian…
Speaking in 2018 to Pontian Greeks living in Toronto about the genocide of their ancestors, former General Frangoulis Frangos of the Greek Military revealed the leading role of the Germans, Stohos reported.…
“Today we pause to reflect on the victims of the Greek Genocide from the region of Pontus. May they forever rest in peace. We will never forget them. And while the eternal…
Today we commemorate the Greek Genocide victims of the Pontus region. During the Greek Genocide, over a million were exterminated by Ottoman and Kemalist forces, 353,000 of them were Greeks from Pontus.…
“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…
Candles for the 350,000 Pontian Greeks exterminated by Turkish troops and Kurdish para-militaries, were lit on Monday night in the centre of Thessaloniki. The candles were lit by members of the Pontian…
May 19 marks the remembrance of the Pontian Greek Genocide (1916-1923), one of the darkest moments in Greece’s history. Records kept mainly by priests show a minimum 350,000 Pontian Greeks exterminated by…
A so-called Non-Government Organization that has no website and little information about it, has announced that it is looking for immigrants who illegally entered Greece and were returned to Turkey so they…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is in a state of shock after the joint declaration by the Foreign Ministers of Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, France and the United Arab Emirates, condemned Turkey’s illegal…
The European border protection agency Frontex expects that a number of illegal immigrants will soon be heading towards Greece again from Turkey, according to Germany’s Welt. This emerges from an internal and…
April 24th is the day the world commemorates the Armenian Genocide committed by Turks in 1915. That day, 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders were arrested in Constantinople and sent to Chankri…