Greco-Turkish War

For the first time, Asia Minor studies will have a focused presence in Greek higher education with a new endowed chair at the University of Macedonia's Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies. 

Greeks marked National Day of Remembrance of the Genocide of the Greeks of Asia Minor on Saturday with Defense Minister Nikos Dendias paying tribute to the victims in a post on X.

Kayaköy, also known as Livissi, emerges like a photograph from the past on a mountainside in southwestern Asia Minor. This Greek village, abandoned for almost 100 years, caught the attention of CNN, which visited and explored its history.

The Pan-Pontian Federation of Greece issued a statement at the weekend about a song sung by a Turkish-Cypriot singer Isin Karaca during an event organized in the central square of Komotini in northwestern Greece on August 4 as an "unacceptable provocation" and a "direct insult," as it references the destruction of Smyrna.

Based on these facts, the Greeks will be extinct around the middle of the following century…

His dissertation was published in Greek with the title “The Islamization of the Greeks of Asia Minor in the period 1919-1925. A study of memory”

The Treaty of Lausanne encompasses the 143 articles of the treaty itself, along with 17 conventions, protocols and declarations negotiated between the defeated Turkey and all the victorious powers of World War I. It is not an agreement between Greece and Turkey.

The controversy that followed New Democracy MP Angelos Syrigos' claim that some articles of the Lausanne Treaty - notably the one on the extent of the military presence on the eastern Aegean islands - were out of date, has brought attention to the uncertainty surrounding the text of the 1923 agreement that established the borders of Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey.

Direct access to the islands of Imbros (or Gokceada in Turkish) and Tenedos (or Bozcaada) has been a perennial request of the natives of the two islands. Particularly on Imbros, the largest of the two, where, under the Lausanne Treaty, Ankara had a contractual obligation to safeguard rights and property (and certainly did so only piecemeal), there is a problem of access from Greece.

One hundred and one years ago, Ataturk's army expelled my great-grandmother and her family from Yeronda, now known as Didim, their ancestral homeland in Anatolia. I actively campaign for the American and Canadian governments to recognize the Greek genocide. I constantly criticize Ankara's democratic back-sliding, mistreatment of minorities and aggressive foreign policy.