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Greeks Returning to Istanbul After Half a Century
For the first time in the last 50 years the Greek population of Istanbul is rising as they are no longer leaving their city but staying, as Independent Balkan News Agency reports. Influenced by the...
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Istanbul is the New Favorite City for Greek Restaurateurs
The Turkish newspaper “Hürriyet” has made a thorough report about Greeks that decide to invest in Turkey. Despite Greece’s economic recession, there are many investors who cash their money in...
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Epiphany Day in Bosporus
Greek Orthodox faithful swam in İstanbul’s iconic Golden Horn to retrieve a wooden crucifix thrown into the Bosporus during Epiphany day celebrations on Monday. Priests and Orthodox Christians were...
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Turkey: Conference “on ‘Legal Entities of non-Muslims: Problems and Rights’
A conference on “Legal entities of non-Muslims: problems and rights” organized by Istanbul Bilgi University was held in Istanbul for the purpose of discussing legal issues that concern the...
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Legal Battle of Greeks in Istanbul
The Greek community of Istanbul has turned to the Turkish Court asking for the return of three orthodox churches and many other properties that were given by the Turkish state in the so-called...
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Patriarchs And Archbishops to Meet in Istanbul
The Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, has extended an invitation to fourteen Orthodox Church patriarchs and archbishops to gather in Istanbul for a three-day meeting to take place in...
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Exhibition on Greeks Deported from Istanbul
The Greek -Armenian artist Hera Buyuktasciyan will present the history of the Greeks of Istanbul and their deportation in 1964 through a very interesting project entitled “20 Dollars, 20 Kilos” based...
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Greek Bank Buys Istanbul ‘Crystal Tower’
Turkish media report that National Bank of Greece, which owns Finansbank in Turkey, has bought one of Istanbul‘s tallest skyscrapers, the 40-story ”Crystal Tower”, for 303 million dollars. The...
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Istanbul: School Conference on Greek Poet G. Seferis
The life and work of Greek poet Giorgos Seferis is being studied by students, academics, writers, actors and journalists, at a student conference launched today by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew,...
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Chios Dancers to Perform Outside Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia
A cultural club from the Greek island of Chios will represent Greece in the International Folk Dance Festival in Istanbul which is held by the Fatih Municipality. The festival will take place from...
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Hagia Sophia Still Drawing the Crowds After 1450 Years
Data from Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Ministry ranks Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia as the country’s second-most-visited monument this year, at a time when Turkish nationalists seek to turn this great...
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2014 Greek Almanac Published in Istanbul
Over the years, the Greek nation has acquired many names; Hellenes, the Latin Graeci (Greeks), the Turkish Yunan. By late Antiquity, the Greeks referred to themselves as Graikoi (Greeks) and...
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Greek to Turkish Translation Workshop
The Consulate General of Greece in Istanbul and Istos publishing house will hold a two-day workshop for translation from Greek to Turkish in Istanbul from on May 17-18 at the Sismanoglio Megaro. The...
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Exhibition Commemorates Istanbul-Based Greek Movie Professionals
Istanbul Turvak Cinema-Theater Museum and Art Library, are honoring the Greeks of Istanbul‘s cinema industry with an exhibition as part of the 100th anniversary of the Turkish cinema. The exhibition,...
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Documentary on Istanbul’s Cultural Heritage at Sismanoglio Megaro
The documentary “Our Islands: Through the Eyes of a Musician” by the Turkish director and musician Nedim Hazar will be presented on Saturday, May 10 at the Greek Consulate‘s Sismanoglio Megaro in...
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Archeologists Discover Byzantine ‘Notebooks’
Archeologists engaged in excavations at the Byzantine port quarter Yenikapı on the European side of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey, seem to have struck upon some artifacts resembling modern day...
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Greek Publisher to Revive Greece’s Literature in Turkey
A newly founded Greek publishing house in Istanbul will be reviving the long multicultural tradition of Greek literature in the former Byzantine capital city by translating and distributing on the...
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Protesters Pray for Hagia Sophia to Become a Mosque
Protesters pray in front of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, early Saturday, to show their support that it be converted into a mosque. Built in 537 by Byzantine Emperor Justinian whose rule...
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Greek Historian Honored by Turkish President
The badge of the Order of Excellence was presented by the President of the Turkish Republic Abdullah Gül to Evangelia Balta for her contribution to the literature and culture of Greeks in Asia Minor....
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Greek Daily in Istanbul Closes After 89 Years
The Greek daily newspaper “Apoyevmatini,” published in Istanbul since 1925, will close because of financial woes. The newspaper, published in Greek, intended to keep the language alive among Greeks in...
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