Culture

The development and sale of controversial château-style villas in a Turkish UNESCO-listed town will resume after the bankruptcy decision against its developer has been reversed by a court.

Thirty-seven new and established Greek and international fashion designers presented new trends for the upcoming season during the 26th edition of Athens Xclusive Designers Week, the capital's official fashion week, which ends on Monday. The annual event, which took place this year at Zappeion Hall, also includes a competition for best new designer.

Fashion designer Patrick Louis Vuitton, the great-grandson of the founder of fashion house Louis Vuitton, died in France at the age of 68.

April 26, 2019, Good Friday. Pantanassa Church in the town of Patra, in the northern Peloponnese, is full of devotees waiting for the procession of the flower-decked Epitaphios to begin. Father Konstantinos Papadopoulos approaches the microphone and makes an unusual plea to the faithful.

No country can manage migration without help, conservative former prime minister Costas Karamanlis said on Wednesday in a speech at an event of the Costas Grammenos Centre for Shipping, Trade and Finance in London.

Another Turkish city entered UNESCO's Creative Cities Network with its world-renowned cuisine.

The Days of Korean Culture festival starts today in Bucharest, comprising tasting traditional products, workshops, exhibitions and film screenings. The event runs throughout November 28. According to the Embassy of Korea, the series of events begins with the fourth edition of the K-Lovers Festival, which takes place on Friday and Saturday.

The Foreign Ministry strongly condemned a law that prohibits Muslim women from wearing the headscarf in France while accompanying their children during school trips.
In a statement released on Oct. 31, the ministry warned French officials that the ban could ignite discrimination against Muslims.

Technology entrepreneurs from all over Turkey gathered in Istanbul over the weekend for the country's first hackathon for capital markets.

The Athens Democracy Forum made me understand that populism has a positive side that acts as a warning bell for democracy from turning overly elitist. However, I also came to see that populism has contributed to the extreme polarization of society in several countries and has negatively impacted climate politics.