Late on Wednesday night, 13 people from Turkey landed in Rhodes and stated that they were persecuted by the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and asked for political asylum, Rodiaki reported. The…
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A team of Turkish scientists and archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 2,500-year-old Aphrodite Temple in the Urla-Çeşme peninsula in Turkey’s west.
One of Turkey’s most infamous advisors to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has demanded that the Greek Consul General in Smyrna (Σμύρνα, Turkish: İzmir) be arrested. Mesut Hakkı Caşın, a member of the…
Two earthquakes have rocked across Greece today, albeit much weaker than the one that devastated the Greek island of Samos and Smyrni (Σμύρνη, Turkish: İzmir) on the Turkish mainland on Friday. An…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered his condolences in the aftermath of the earthquake that struck just to the north of the Aegean island of Samos. “Vladimir Putin sent a message of…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has offered his “condolences to all of Greece” in the aftermath of the Samos earthquake that rocked Greece and Turkey earlier today. In a tweet, Greek Prime…
Despite the tense relations between Athens and Ankara at the moment after the latter’s continual attempt to steal oil and gas from Greece’s continental shelf, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias has offered…
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 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.…