A visit to Smyrna and the coast of Asia Minor reveals a country combining rapid industrial development, ambitious housing projects and expanding exports with high inflation, steep interest rates and a weakening currency.
Firsthand accounts from Greeks who lived through the 1922 Asia Minor Catastrophe, collected by the Center for Asia Minor Studies
Once built to house refugees and working-class families, the Dourgouti neighborhood in Athens is undergoing a new transformation as rising rents, short-term rentals, and growing demand reshape one of the city's most historic communities.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis paid tribute, writing, “I wish to pay homage on today’s Day of Remembrance of the Genocide of the Greeks of Asia Minor by the Turkish state."
Yannis Maniatis, the Vice President of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats in the European Parliament, highlighted the systematic and centrally organized effort to exterminate Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks of Asia Minor and Pontus by the Ottoman Empire, addressing the European Parliament on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. In […]