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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
Turkey’s government denounced a ruling by a Greek appeals court to reject an application by the Turkish Union of Xanthi to register as a local association over the use of the word Turkish.
The union had appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan doesn’t recognize when it is at odds with what he wants but as his government now is arguing Greece had violated the right to association by not allowing the union to register.
Erdogan visited northern Greece near the area of Thrace where the union is located in the city of Xanthi and wants greater rights for the Turkish minority while still keeping closed the Halki Seminary.
To implement the decisions of the ECHR, the Greek Parliament adopted legislation in 2017 that enabled the banned associations to apply for re-registration, but included major exceptions, the Turkish foreign ministry said, Kathimerini reported.
“The decision of the court demonstrates that the legislation adopted by the Greek Parliament is not enough for the realization of the right to association,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said in a statement.
“We expect from Greece to register the NGOs of the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace without discrimination and make arrangements that will enable the application of ECHR rulings,” he said, without mentioning Turkish discrimination against the Greek Church.
Greece only recognizes a Muslim minority in the country which mainly resides in Western Thrace.
Under the Lausanne treaty signed in 1923 between Greece and Turkey, Muslims are defined by their religion and not their ethnicity with Erdogan saying he doesn’t recognize nor accept the treaty that set borders and conditions between the countries.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.