Turkey Erases “Byzantine” From School Books, Adds “Blue Homeland”
Turkey is rewriting its school textbooks to replace internationally recognized historical and geographic terms with new ones carrying heavier nationalist and…
Middle East
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Turkey Reaffirms War Threat Over Greek Sea Border
Turkey has officially reaffirmed its threat of war against Greece over maritime border disputes in the Aegean, according to eKathimerini. The threat, known in…
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Before the Genocide, the Ottoman Empire Made Christians Second-Class Subjects
Centuries before the Pontian Genocide, the Ottoman Empire had built an entire legal system designed to keep Christian subjects permanently beneath Muslim…
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Androulakis in Cappadocia: “People Who Forget Their History Lose Their Identity”
PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis attended a liturgy in Cappadocia, Turkey on Sunday, joining Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Archbishop of Albania…
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Turkey Builds Islamic Center Next to Halki Seminary
Turkey is responding to the reopening of the Halki Theological Seminary with a major construction project right next door. The country’s Directorate of…
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Turkey Gives Erdogan Sole Power to Declare 200-Mile Maritime Zones
Turkey is preparing a law that would hand Erdogan unilateral authority to declare an Exclusive Economic Zone of up to 200 nautical miles, according to a leak…
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2,000-Year-Old Theater Rewrites History of Roman Architecture
A new study has found that the ancient Theater of Teos, built in what is now western Turkey, used a far more sophisticated audience management system than…
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Tassoulas: “Here in Evros, the Air Fills You With National Pride”
Greek President Konstantinos Tassoulas spent the night at Surveillance Post 5 on the Greek-Turkish border in the Evros region, waking before dawn on Sunday to…
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Turkey Renames Aegean Sea in School Textbooks
Turkey has quietly rewritten its school curriculum to replace “Aegean Sea” with “Sea of Islands,” according to Turkish media reports citing the country’s…
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Greece Tells EU: Turkey is Pointing Guns at Our Fishermen
A Greek minister has taken the fight over Turkish maritime aggression to Brussels, citing illegal fishing, violations of international law, and armed…
