Greeks

Young couple create Armiriki, new brand amid capital controls (vid)

Armiriki is a small artistic Greek brand created by a young couple from Greece, Christina Katopodi and Konstantinos Kouvaras, born through their will to travel modern Greece around the world. Their main challenge was the threat of Greece’s bankruptcy and the imposed capital controls that have created the total opposite of an ideal environment to get started.

Pontians protest against Education Minister’s rebuttal of Pontic Genocide

Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) Education Minister Nikos Filis is under fire for his comments during an interview on Monday refuting the Pontic Genocide followed by conservative New Democracy deputy Miltiadis Varvitsiotis’ revelations that high school students are no longer being taught about this dark chapter in recent history.

Rescue volunteers cry for help on Greek island's tragic shores

On a rocky beach on the Greek island of Lesbos where the bodies of drowned migrants wash up almost daily, exhausted rescue volunteers hold their heads in despair.
 
"The situation is crazy," says Essam Daod, a Palestinian doctor working with Israel-based humanitarian agency IsraAid.    

Beware of Tuesday 13th… A hellish, fearful, bad luck day for Greeks

While many Western countries believe that Friday the 13th is an ominous day, it is Tuesday the 13th that Greeks fear the most. Misfortune and calamity struck with the fall of Constantinople to the Fourth Crusade on Tuesday, April 13, 1204 paving the way for the Fall of the city to the Ottomans many Tuesdays later on Tuesday, May 29, 1453.

Archbishop Ieronymos vs. Europe: “They want to destroy our religion!”

Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and All Greece accused Europe and the Greek government of working against the church. Referring to the recent government proposal to ease students exemptions from religious education classes, he said that this is just the “tip of the iceberg!”

Turkey’s tribute to Greek poet George Seferis

Hasan Gürsoy opened the George Seferis Art Gallery in Urla, near Smyrna in Turkey, in honor of the Greek Nobel laureate. As a young boy, Seferis lived in the region until the age of 14 years, so when Gürsoy and his partners decided to open their gallery they decided to recognize the great Greek poet and thus pay tribute to the shared Greek-Turkish cultural past.

Foreign diplomats present their images of Greece

The photo exhibition, titled “Greece through the diplomats’ lens”, is currently featured at the “Melina Mercouri” Athens Cultural Center. Around 70 photos of Greece as seen through the eyes of foreign diplomats in Greece is presented in a display that showcases Greek antiquities, inviting Greek islands surrounded by the blue of the sea and sky.

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