Both Greece and Turkey are desperately trying to protect themselves against each other and yet both recognize that their security is intertwined with that of the entire Balkan region. Nevertheless, the historical relationship between the two peoples, at times, appears to have trapped each state into...
Few of the Greeks returned safely to their homes.The ancient Greeks treated the Trojan War as an historical event which had taken place in the 13th or 12th century BC, and believed that Troy was located in modern-day Turkey near the Dardanelles. As of the mid-19th century, both the war...
Greek PM to Meet President Erdogan in Turkey on March 13 More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis speaks to press as he arrives for an emergency European Union (EU) summit at The European Council Building, on the situation in Ukraine after Russia launched ...
During this period the ethnic minorities in Greece and Turkey faced the rage of the local populations and the negative discrimination of their governments. My generation was brought up listening to stories related to the above. If one excludes the Imia/Kardak crisis, which ...
THE first migrants deported from Greek islands under a disputed European Union-Turkey deal were shipped back to Turkey yesterday in a drive to shut down the main route by which a million people fleeing war and poverty crossed the Aegean Sea in the last year. ...
Greece and Turkey are also at loggerheads over oil and gas exploration rights in the Mediterranean and over territorial issues in the Aegean Sea dividing the two countries. The two have come to the brink of war three times since the mid-1970s. According to official in Athens with knowledge ...
When Greeks from Turkey’s Aegean coast returned to the country after the Greco-Turkish War, they brought many of their own recipes with them. The ever-popular soutzoukakia, is one of the most noted. Indeed, you may often see the extra description “Smyrneika,” which is from Smyrna, in...
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The islets are a pair of two small uninhabited rocks in the Aegean Sea, located between the Greek island chain of the Dodecanese and the southwestern mainland coast of Turkey. Greece and Turkey nearly went to war over the islets in 1995. KEY...
Herodotus was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the 5thcentury BCE. He was a contemporary of Socrates. He is referred to as “The Father of History” and is the first historian known to have broken from Homeric tradition in order to...