Greece dismissed Turkey's criticism over a map presented as a gift to Patriarch Bartholomew, saying the gift was "purely ...

Since the loss of much of the Christian Balkans to the Ottomans in the 15th century, Greece ... contrast, Turkey once prided itself on its secular customs institutionalized by its first modern ...

Given the tension between Greece and Turkey ... were the first to seek independence, establishing the modern Greek state in 1830 after a successful uprising. In the late 19th century, many Greeks ...