May 8th, 20210705
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), co-founder and co-chair of Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues, and Congressman Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL), co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues, introduced on Thursday the bipartisan Turkey and Ecumenical Patriarchate Religious Freedom Act of 2021. The...
February 13th, 20210641
Washington, D.C. (GreekNewsOnline)
For a third week in a row Washington kept on throwing punches at Turkey. In addition to the S-400s, both the Biden administration and the U.S. Congress criticized Ankara’s deteriorated human rights record.
The bipartisan letter, signed by the majority of the U.S. Senate (54 senators) on...
December 14th, 202001050
New York.- (GreekNewsOnline, Reuters)
The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on Turkey over its purchase of Russian ground-to-air defenses and targeted the top Turkish defense development body, its president and three employees.
It’s the first time that the United States imposed sanctions designed by Congress to to...
December 6th, 20200983
Final draft of 2021 NDAA mandates the President to impose 5 or more CAATSA sanctions to Turkey in 30 days, for the acquisition of S-400 – Senators Graham and Lankford call on Trump to impose sanctions
Washington.- By Apostolos Zoupaniotis
The final version of the $740bn annual National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA,...
November 16th, 202001566
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), co-chair and co-founder of the Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues, and Congressman Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues, led 21 of their colleagues in a bipartisan letter to Secretary Pompeo urging the State Department to hold...
October 31st, 20200929
Athens.- (ANA-MPE, GreekNewsOnline)
At least 37 people died in Izmir (Smyrna) Turkey and 2 on the Island of Samos, Greece, following a powerful earthquake of 6.7 magnitude on the Richter scale in the eastern Aegean. Two high school students, 15 and 17 years old respectively lost their lives when a wall of a deserted house...
September 11th, 20200984
New York.- By Apostolos Zoupaniotis/CNA
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will be received on Saturday evening by President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades. According to diplomatic sources, the meeting will also be attended by Cyprus Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides.
The same sources said that it is not clear...
August 14th, 202002263
Washington, D.C. (GreekNewsOnline)
In a letter sent to President Trump on the eve of the meeting between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, AHEPA Supreme President George Horiates urges U.S. Administration to condemn and prevent Turkey from further actions in the Aegean that violate all international...
July 14th, 202001861
Washington, DC (GreekNewsOnline)
The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (Order of AHEPA) released a commentary piece authored by Supreme President George G. Horiates titled, "In Wake of Hagia Sophia’s Status Change, A Need for Action. Let’s Start with a Boycott." The proposal includes various Made in...
July 13th, 202011103
VATICAN CITY .- By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service (CNS)Pope Francis said he was saddened after a Turkish court ruled to revert the iconic Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque.
While commemorating the International Day of the Sea during his Sunday Angelus address July 12, the pope told pilgrims in St. Peter's Square that "the...