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...
Greece and Turkey have been at loggerheads for decades over a series of issues, including disputes over undersea exploration rights in the Aegean Sea and the sovereignty of uninhabited islets. The two neighbors have come to the brink of war three times in the past half century. Article content...
This is a comprehensive guide to the armies that fought a devastating and decisive conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean between the two World Wars of the 20th century. From the initial Greek invasion, designed to "liberate" the 100,000 ethnic Greeks that lived in Western Turkey and had done ...
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 ...
Relations between the neighbors and nominal NATO allies hit new lows over the summer due to a dispute over maritime borders and energy rights, bringing them to the brink of war. Turkey dispatched a research vessel, escorted by warships, to search for hydrocarbon resources in disputed waters. ...
Roughly one-fifth of the population are Turkish Cypriots, descendants of the soldiers of the Ottoman army that conquered the island in 1571 and of immigrants from Anatolia brought in by the sultan’s government. Since 1974 additional immigrants from Turkey have been brought in to work vacant ...
amid ongoing violence and international pressure to end the war. Hosted at Turkey’s Dolmabahce Palace, the talks come as both sides remain deeply divided over key demands, with little hope for a breakthrough. Ukraine called for a ceasefire and humanitarian measures, while Russia reiterated conditi...
KASTANIES, Greece (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday a migrant crisis on its borders with Turkey was an asymmetrical threat to the borders of the European Union. Mitsotakis said he hoped the crisis would serve as a wake up call for Europe to assume its...
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...
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...