The mayors of Athens and Istanbul, Kostas Bakoyannis and Ekrem Imamoglu, said after their meeting…
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Retired Turkish General, analyst, Erdoğan Karakuş declared that “the target of Turkey’s ground armed forces…
Greek City Times is proud to present a weekly historical snapshot from the archives of…
Turkey: Hagia Sophia “Mosque” in Nicaea/Iznik By Uzay Bulut Much of the international community has…
September 6-7, 1955: Turkey’s Kristallnacht By Uzay Bulut September 6, 1955, started just like any other…
On this day in 1955, the Constantinople riots begin The Constantinople pogrom, also known as…
On August 31, 1922, Kemal’s army wanted to destroy everything Greek that existed in the…
Prinkipo Greek Orthodox Orphanage: Symbol of Greek persecution in Turkey A restoration of Constantinople’s Prinkipo…
That we’ve broken their statues, that we’ve driven them out of their temples, doesn’t mean…
A restoration of Constantinople’s Prinkipo Greek Orthodox Orphanage would cost at least 40 million…
That we’ve broken their statues, that we’ve driven them out of their temples, doesn’t mean…
A CHURCH that was destroyed in the attack of the World Trade Center in New York on…
On the morning of May 30 in St. Catherine’s Orthodox Church in Beirut, the Romaïan…
The naval battle of Eressos is considered the first frontal naval battle by the Greek…
An indigenous Greek from Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολις, Turkish: İstanbul), Hercules Millas, won the Orhan Kemal Literature…
On May 14, the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates the Feast Day of Martyrdom Therapon, who was a…
On May 11, 330, Constantine I dedicated Byzantium (Constantinople; now Istanbul) as the new capital…
Laskarina Bouboulina (1771-1825) was a Greek revolutionary and naval commander. An Arvanite Greek born in…
Turkey illuminated Hagia Sophia – a former Byzantine church that was turned into a mosque…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople that he welcomes the…