Istanbul

At least five fans of Olympiakos basketball team were injured on Friday in Istanbul during clashes that broke out between Greek and Turkish fans at Taxim square. Four people were detained. According to reports, one of the five injured received...

A group called "Youth of the East" is calling on Muslims to gather for morning prayer in Hagia Sophia on Saturday, an ANT1 television report said. With posters plastered in the walls all over Istanbul, the group calls on all...

A woman of Greek origin has become one of the richest people in Turkey after winning an 8-year legal battle over the inheritance of her late husband's fortune. According to the Turkish press, Marika Bahcivanoglu was the second wife of...

  A new video by ISIS jihadists threatens the West and warns that the next target is Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, as Turkey will become a province of the new caliphate. The video is 3.30 minutes long and was posted on...

President Prokopis Pavlopoulos expressed on Sunday his abhorrence for the deadly terrorist attack on a nightclub in Istanbul early on New Year’s Day. The general secretary of the presidency, Ambassador Giorgos Gennimatas, expressed to Turkey’s Ambassador to Greece Yaşar Çevik...

At least thirty-nine people have been killed and dozens more were wounded in the first hours of 2017 early Sunday, in an attack on Istanbul's most famous nightclub, Reina. The club was packed with guests celebrating the New Year when...

Istanbul is home to over 200 active churches according to a 2000 census, and this holiday season they are celebrating Christmas with the traditional carols, midnight mass and services through the holiday weekend. Let's take a look at some...

A book about the 150 Greek newspapers that have been published through the ages in Istanbul is to be presented at the Consulate of Greece in the Turkish city. Researcher Stratis Tarinas wrote the book "The Nature of Constantinople", in...

hAthens City Haltl was lit with the colors of the Turkish flag on Monday evening in memory of the victims of the terror attack in Istanbul on Sunday and in support of the Turkish people, as the mayor of...

The Greek Foreign Ministry in an announcement on Sunday unequivocally condemned the terror attacks in Istanbul on Saturday. "We express our abhorrence and unequivocally condemn the deadly twin terrorist attacks that took place yesterday in Istanbul. We address our condolences...