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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.
ATHENS – With Turkey about to unveil the opening of the ancient Aghia Sophia in Constantinople as a mosque, and covering Christian mosaics during Muslim prayer services, Greece is working on a scheme for a response, seeking international aid.
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and Culture Minister Lina Mendoni are going to set up a small working group which will come up with a plan by early August, said Kathimerini, although it wasn't said what they could do about it.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, continuing to taunt Greece with more provocations, ordered the transition of Aghia Sophia, which in 1934 was turned into a museum after being a mosque when the city fell to the Turks in 1453, into a mosque.
Turkey's highest court said it was his decision to make, indicating he is the rule of law in that country where he is jailing journalists and had purged civil society, the courts and military after a failed 2016 coup attempt against him.
“We have repeatedly stressed that the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque does not constitute a Greek-Turkish difference. However, of course, for us Greeks, this monument is of special importance and value,” Dendias said.
He added that “for this reason, we have decided to raise the issue through international initiatives that we will undertake, as European citizens and as citizens of the world community, talking to all international organizations and, of course, UNESCO,” reported the newspaper Kathimerini.
The meeting was attended by Greek Ambassador to UNESCO Maria Diamantopoulou, the chairwoman of the Greek National Commission for UNESCO Ekaterini Tzitzikosta and other officials.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.