Tag: Turkey
Turkey’s Secret Armenians
Members of Armenian community in Romania cast shadows during a rally marking the anniversary of mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Empire in 1915, in ... Read More
Patriarchate to presumably take part in Oshki and Ishkhani rehabilitation
Georgia Online - 19/2/13 Georgia’s Patriarchate presumably will be involved in the negotiations on restoring Georgian cultural heritage in Turkey and construction of a mosque ... Read More
Many Greek citizens are looking to move to Turkey says Patriarch
19/2/13 Many Greek citizens are looking to move to Turkey due to the dire economic situation back home, Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew has said, according ... Read More
Kadner: Orthodox Church fights for freedom
Bishop Demetrios of Mokissos speaks on the plight of the Greek Orthodox Church in Turkey Sunday during a press conference in support of a resolution ... Read More
Armenia tries to help as Christian Armenians flee Syria
Diana Markosian, Special for USA TODAY – 14/2/13 An estimated 7,000 of Syria's Christian-Armenian community have arrived in Armenia since the start of the uprising ... Read More
Relics of students of Jesus found in the Armenian Church of Tabriz
13/2/13 Relics of Saints were found during the reconstruction of St. Stepanos Monastery in Tabriz in 2006. These were supposed to be the bones of ... Read More
Turkey Mulls Re-opening Halki Seminary
Andy Dabilis - 29/1/13 After much prodding from Greece and international pressure, the Turkish government is examining at least two formulas for the reopening of the ... Read More
Greek Orthodox leaders seek resolution from legislators on Turkey
29/1/13 - Patrick Wade CHAMPAIGN — Greek Orthodox church leaders are hoping state legislators will pass a resolution calling on Turkish officials to "loosen up ... Read More
Halki Seminary Gets 470 Acres From Turkey
Andy Dabilis - 18/1/13 Turkey’s Council of Foundations – part of Turkey’s Directorate General for Foundations (VGM) agreed on Jan. 11 to return 190 hectares, some ... Read More
Turkey’s Ugly Trap for Assyrians
Assyrian International News Agency - 18/1/13 Stockholm (AINA) -- Turkey's permission to allow the Syrian Orthodox community to build a church in Istanbul after 90 ... Read More
Sealed Under Turkish Mud, a Well-Preserved Byzantine Chapel
A section of the 13th-century chapel at Myra. One wall of the chapel has a cross-shaped window that, when sunlit, beams its shape onto an ... Read More
Turkey Parliamentarians Argue Over Who Killed Armenians
4/1/2013 ANKARA, Turkey (A.W.)—The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TGNA) witnessed an argument between parliamentarians over who killed the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in ... Read More
84-Year-Old Armenian Woman Brutally Murdered in Istanbul (Update)
Januray 2013 ISTANBUL, Turkey—On Dec. 29, an 84-year-old Armenian woman was brutally murdered in Istanbul’s Koca Mustafa Pasha neighborhood, Turkish newspapers reported. The woman, identified ... Read More
Turkey to begin second restoration of historical Armenian church
21/12/12 The Armenian Akdamar Church, located on Akdamar Island on Lake Van, is scheduled to be restored again as part of a project in line ... Read More
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk visits the Parliament of Turkey
On 15 December 2012, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met with Mr. Volkan Bozkyr, chairman of ... Read More
What’s Next for Syria’s Christians?
Mark Movsesian - 14/12/12 This week, the United States recognized the Syrian National Coalition, an umbrella organization of groups opposed to the Assad regime, as the ... Read More
Orthodox Church In Istanbul Will Be Rebuilt
14/12/12 - Nicky Mariam Onti The municipal council of Istanbul has decided to give the permission to rebuild the St. Stefanos (Yeşilköy) Church, the first time ... Read More
The Speaker of the Parliament of Cyprus visits the Catholicosate of Cilicia
“WE CONDEMN THE POLITICS OF DENIAL OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BY TURKEY” States His Holiness Aram I “THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS SUPPORTS THE JUST ... Read More
Turkey: Hidden Truths or True Lies
Raffi Bedrosyan - 26/11/2012 ISTANBUL — In 1915, an entire people was physically wiped out in a couple of years from its homeland of several ... Read More
Consecration of St. Karapet Church in Gavar
Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin On November 17, the Saint Karapet Church in the town of Gavar was consecrated. The church was fully renovated during ... Read More
Restoring Ani: Armenian specialists expect to be part of Turkey-led efforts for ancient Armenian capital
GAYANE ABRAHAMYAN ArmeniaNow reporter 16/11/2012 The first stage of restoration works of Armenia’s most beautiful ancient capital Ani in modern-day Turkey (Western Armenia) has been ... Read More