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Turkish Court Rules Against Restrictions on Greek Orthodox Clerics Serving on Foundations

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that barring two Greek Orthodox clerics from serving on a foundation board violated their right…

11 January 2025

Turkish Media: They Characterise Pserimos, Kinaro, and Levitha as "Turkish Islands" - "Dendias Violated the Treaty of Lausanne"

New Turkish provocations have surfaced, with politicians and media from Turkey describing the Greek islands Pserimos, Kinaro, and Levitha as…

9 December 2024

Imvros: The revival of a Greek Community

Imbros Island had almost five and a half thousand Greek inhabitants in the mid-1960s... Since then, the dream of all…

7 July 2024

Ukraine Peace Summit Organizers Remove Ecumenical Patriarchate from Signatories List Amid Turkey's Protests

The Ecumenical Patriarchate no longer appears as a signatory on the current list on the website, which now states, however:…

27 June 2024

Turkish Government Targets Ecumenical Patriarch Amid Political Tensions (VIDEO)

In a recent development, the Turkish government has targeted the Ecumenical Patriarch, following inflammatory remarks by Devlet Bahçeli, President Erdogan’s…

27 June 2024

Greek-Turkish Dispute Sparks Concerns Over Regional Stability

Returning to terminology reminiscent of the period before February 6, 2023, and the easing of tensions in the Greek-Turkish relationship…

10 February 2024

Treaty of Lausanne: International conference for the 100th anniversary of the signing

The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) are co-organising next…

8 June 2023

Pro-Turkey Muslims in Thrace once again become the "tool" of Erdoğan

The "instrumentalisation" of the Muslim minority in Western Thrace is attempted once again by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, this…

30 November 2022

Athens immediately rejects Turkish complaints about military movements on the Greek islands

Responding to a related communication, which Turkey made earlier today to the Greek Ambassador in Ankara, Christodoulos Lazaris, Athens rejected…

27 September 2022

Greece calls out Turkey's "fake news" about the Muslim minority of Thrace

The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave a harsh response to Turkey for its objections regarding the illegal election of…

10 September 2022

Turkish FM Çavuşoğlu: Greece clearly violates international law with the islands

Complaints about "Greece's campaign against Turkey", was expressed by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Thursday, adding that his country,…

12 August 2022

Akar challenges Greece again: "Six Rafales are not enough to face Turkey"

With provocations, ironies and threats, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar commented on the arrival of six French-made Rafale fighter jets…

27 January 2022

Disagreements over Greek Genocide hamper Greek-Turkish bilateral relations

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, during the meeting of the European Peoples' Party (EPP) in Strasbourg, threatened Turkey with European…

21 January 2022

Daily Sabah caught red-handed falsifying truth on shut down of Muslim minority schools in Greece

Turkish propaganda outlet Daily Sabah has once again been caught red-handed falsifying and misappropriating truth, reminding us once again why…

22 December 2021

Turkey once again calls on Greece to demilitarise islands

Turkey’s Defense Minister Hulusi Akar has reiterated his country’s demand that Greece demilitarises its Aegean islands off the Turkish coast.…

6 June 2021

Turkish Foreign Minister Arrives in Greece, Calls Muslim Minority ”Turkish”

Greece does not accept the characterization of its minority as Turkish

30 May 2021

Pomaks declare Turkish FM Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu persona non grata: "YOU ARE UNWANTED!"

The reactions of Pomaks (Slavic-speaking Muslims in Greece's Western Thrace region) against their labelling as "Turks" by Turkey continues in…

29 May 2021

Bahçeli to Mitsotakis: Pomaks are Turks, Greece is fascist

The leader of Turkey's far-right Nationalist Action Party (MHP), Devlet Bahçeli, a coalition partner of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, launched…

26 May 2021

UNVEILED GAZETTE: 1936 Italian gov document debunks Turkish claims over Greek islands

For the first time, excerpts from the Official Gazette of the Italian Government of 1936 containing all the "Italian islands…

11 May 2021

Erdoğan tells Patriarch Bartholomew that Greeks should return to Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople that he welcomes the return of Greeks to Turkey.…

7 May 2021

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