November 17th, 202001623
Constantinople.- (GreekNewsOnline, AFP)
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo paid a fraught visit to Istanbul on Tuesday that included no official meetings and an agenda focused on religious freedoms that Ankara dismissed as "irrelevant".
The meeting of the U.S. Secretary of State with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew lasted 1,5...
August 6th, 202002250
BOYCOTT TURKEY
Turkey is a large exporter of clothing items,agro food, beverages, traditional foods, home textile, exterior building decorations items, bathroom furniture & etc. There are a slew of rugs, clothing and food products made in Turkey.
Do not buy made in Turkey. Check the supplier for the...
July 13th, 202011110
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...
July 11th, 202022701
New York.- (GreekNewsOnline)
Few hours after Turkey’s top court ruling that declared illegal the 1934 decision by the country’s founder Kemal Ataturk to convert Hagia Sopia to museum, President Tayyip Erdogan declared the old glory of Byzantium a mosque on Friday with the first Muslim prayers to begin in two...
June 6th, 202001719
Athens.- (GreekNewsOnline)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reportedly instructed government officials to “do a study” on how to change the status of Hagia Sophia, the Byzantine-era Greek Patriarchal cathedral that was later transformed into an Ottoman mosque before becoming a museum in 1935.
“Hagia Sophia can...