Humanities
Cultural mobilization starts for Hatay
Preparations are underway as Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry is preparing to establish a coordination center, where historical heritage preservation activities will be carried out. The ministry asked universities to send any information, document, research, thesis, picture, etc. about the quake-hit city of Hatay in an attempt to reconstruct the life and cultural texture there again.
- Read more about Cultural mobilization starts for Hatay
- Log in to post comments
Macedonia’s Church Accused of ‘Interfering’ in Gender Equality, Sex Education Debate
The Church, in a secular state like North Macedonia, should stay out of women's rights and not interfere in laws that do not concern its own affairs, gender equality activists say.
US returns 29 antiquities to Greece
In the latest repatriation of items of Greek cultural heritage, the United States has returned 29 looted antiquities.
They were delivered to Greece by Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, in a special ceremony at the Greek Consulate General in New York.
- Read more about US returns 29 antiquities to Greece
- Log in to post comments
Restoration to start at quake-hit assets
Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy met on March 14 with industry representatives in the tent set up at the Hatay Archaeology Museum in the quake-hit province of Hatay.
Ersoy said that they had started to carry out the decisions made within the scope of the Hatay Cultural Heritage Survival Project.
- Read more about Restoration to start at quake-hit assets
- Log in to post comments
Shipwreck in Halkidiki linked to 1821 Revolution
Archaeologists analyzing a shipwreck stumbled upon by divers in summer 2022 are connecting it to the 1821 Greek Revolution.
It was found in the sea off Fourka in Halkidiki, with two cannons and a one-and-a-half-meter-long rifle on its wooden hull, and seems to have been used during the Revolution.
- Read more about Shipwreck in Halkidiki linked to 1821 Revolution
- Log in to post comments
Wake-up call
Wednesday's tragedy at Tempe in central Greece should serve as a wake-up call for the entire political system. Answers will be demanded over the lives that were lost and those that were irreparably damaged by injury or trauma, as will decisions that will ensure such a tragedy never happens again.
- Read more about Wake-up call
- Log in to post comments
President visits Germany
In a reflection of a new era of cooperation, President Katerina Sakellaropoulou began a three-day visit to Germany on Wednesday.
The visit is taking place amid mutual trust after a decade of bilateral friction over the debt crisis, the migration issue and the German government's stance of equal distances with regard to tension between Greece and Turkey.
- Read more about President visits Germany
- Log in to post comments
Who are this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winners
This year's Nobel Peace Prize goes to the human rights activist Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties and the Russian "Memorial".
Ales Bialiatski is a Belarusian oppositionist, chairman of the human rights center "Vyasna". He was arrested in July 2020, designated as a political prisoner.
- Read more about Who are this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winners
- Log in to post comments
Lakonia region’s petrified palm forest
A natural wonder of unique archaeological importance
- Read more about Lakonia region’s petrified palm forest
- Log in to post comments
The ancient Gods’ strange “Bag” – It was seen worldwide
From Sumer to Mesoamerica, ancient civilizations separated by over 12,700 kilometers revealed the mysterious purse of the gods