Greek Minister of Tourism Olga Kefalogianni, met Sept. 25th with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Fener and announced the impending establishment of a Greek National Tourism Organization branch in Istanbul. The Minister denounced the information about selling the building of the Greek Consulate in Smyrna.
After meeting with the Patriarch, Kefalogianni expressed her government’s support to the work of the Patriarchate for Hellenism and the Greek Orthodox Church. The Minister said that she was formally invited to Istanbul by her Turkish counterpart in order to explore all possibilities of strengthening collaboration between the two countries in terms of tourism. She announced the Greek-Turkish tourism forum to take place in Athens within 2012.
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