Culture
Mankind 'failing' multiculturalism: Turkey's top cleric
All religions, beliefs and cultures are intertwined, Turkey?s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) head Mehmet Görmez said on April 11, adding with ?regret? that mankind is failing to manage this multiculturalism.
Minister says 'Exarchia-related' violence can't be solved with police measures
The relevant minister in charge of public safety on Wednesday again commented on the decades-old scourge of hooliganism in the form of "anarchist-inspired" violence that erupts periodically in central Athens.
Situation regarding some human rights deteriorated in 2014
BELGRADE - The situation concerning certain human rights deteriorated in Serbia in 2014, especially regarding social and economic rights, freedom of expression, the position of independent bodies and justice system reform, reads a report published by the Belgrade Human Rights Center.
President Iohannis praises cultural diversity on International Roma Day
President Klaus Iohannis congratulated Roma ethnics on the International Roma Day on Wednesday, the Presidential Administration informed in a media release.
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Greek Film Fest in Australia calling for submissions (video)
The sixth Greek-Australian Short Film Festival welcomes aspiring filmmakers from around the world who are Greek or of Greek descent. The films gathered will be screened at the Greek Film Festival running across major cities in Australia and offering special cash prizes for the best films in each category.
US cop charged with murder over shooting black man
Police in the US state of South Carolina charged an officer April 7 with murder after video showed him apparently gunning down a fleeing black man, a rare arrest in a string of shootings of unarmed black men that have raised allegations of police racism.
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Campus (prayer) wars
This column has twice borrowed Shelby Foote?s famous line, with a minor revision: ?A Turkish university, these days, is a group of buildings around a library and a small mosque.? That was not a prophecy if one was not too naïve about the Islamist mind.
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‘It’s all … Chinese to me!’, at least when in Greece
According to University of Pennsylvania linguistics professor Mark Liberman speakers of English, Spanish, Polish, Norwegian and Swedish all use … Greek as a metaphor for the incomprehensibility as a language, as in “It’s all Greek to me”.
Yet, what do Greeks use to describe the incomprehensible?
It’s Chinese.
Atheists: Athens-Jerusalem delivery for Holy Flame should not be paid by taxpayers
The Atheist Union of Greece have called for the abolition of the transport of the Holy Light from Jerusalem to Athens. The light flown to Greece comes from the Holy Fire that miraculously appears every year at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Great Sunday. The miracle of the light delights believers and non-believers alike.
Fence along Bulgaria-Turkey Border to be Completed by End 2015, IntMin Bachvarova says
By the end of the year, the fence along the entire Bulgarian- Turkish border will become a reality.
The statement was made by the recently appointed Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova during her visit at the border point near Lesovo.