Byzantine Empire

The City of Athens Choir will perform a selection of works in the garden of the Byzantine & Christian Museum in central Athens on Saturday, September 10. The concert starts at 8 p.m. and admission is free of charge.

Byzantine & Christian Museum, 22 Vassilissis Sofias, tel 213.213.9500, www.byzantinemuseum.gr

Rebel fire on a hospital in a government-controlled neighbourhood of Syria's second city Aleppo killed three women and wounded another 17 people on May 3, state media reported.    

The rockets hit Al-Dabbeet hospital in the Muhafaza district, state news agency SANA said.    

Rebel rocket fire on other government-held neighbourhoods killed another 11 people, it added.    

A Finnish author is set to be deported from Turkey after being detained in the eastern province of Van for alleged "links to terrorism."

Taina Niemela was taken to the police deportation center on April 28 after an investigation opened upon claims that she attended a funeral of terrorist group members. 

"Armenia: The Spirit of Ararat from the Bronze Age to the 20th Century," an exhibition of Armenian archaeological finds, is currently on display at the Byzantine & Christian Museum. Showcasing more than 100 pieces from the Yerevan History Museum that highlight Armenia's Hellenistic and Byzantine past, among other periods, the exhibition runs through May 31.

Open Dialogue Istanbul and Open Space Istanbul are presenting "Transient Bodies: A series of conferences" along with a live performance by VestAndPage in collaboration with Francesco Kiais and Burçak Konukman. The conference series started on April 22 at Salt Galata in Istanbul and will continue throughout the weekend. 

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has revealed the government's program on sustainable cultural development, which includes a series of plans extending from the Atatürk Culture Center in Istanbul's Taksim Square to making Ankara a capital with Turkey's best cultural venues. 

Seven workers were hospitalized due to chemical exposure in a leather factory in the Torbal? district of the Aegean province of ?zmir early on April 20. The workers were poisoned by inhaling methane gas that had accumulated in a mud pool of the purification plant. 

Suicide bombings in Istanbul, a row with the Kremlin and hard times for the Russian middle class - all these factors spell trouble for Turkey's tourist industry and its wider economy.

Nowhere is the mood gloomier than among shopkeepers in Istanbul, Turkey's cultural gem and scene last weekend of the second suicide attack on tourists in the city this year.

The other day Turkey's economy news noted the most popular online food ordering website in Turkey, Yemek Sepeti, "had a historic turnover this weekend." 

The data from the website's record high turnover could be helpful in quantifying the tension, the introversion and the voluntary home confinement created by the recent terror attacks.

Two Israeli citizens who were killed in a suicide attack in Istanbul on March 19 also held American citizenship, the White House has said in a statement.