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Greece calls for return of Parthenon Statues from British Museum at UNESCO, backed by 20 countries

Greece and Turkey argue that Lord Elgin had no firman permissing him to remove the artifacts, while the UK claims Elgin had all necessary documents and brought the Statues to Britian legally.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
Visitors view the Parthenon Marbles, also known as the Elgin Marbles, at the British Museum in London on January 9, 2023.
The Armenian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.

Armenian Quarter residents descend from genocide survivors, bishop says ahead of exclusive tours

Dating back nearly two millennia, the Armenian Church’s presence in Jerusalem is widely considered the longest unbroken Christian presence in the Old City. 

|BySAM HALPERN
Colonel Sir Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes (left) and François Marie Denis Georges-Picot (Illustrative).

Sykes-Picot should be replaced by a new Trump-Netanyahu regional order - opinion

Sykes-Picot was never a peace settlement. It was a colonial carve-up that fathered every subsequent conflict in the region. For the first time since 1916, a new order can be established.

|ByYARON SCHWARTZ
Kurdish coalition forces.

Iranian Kurdish dilemma: Should they fight for a free Kurdistan or risk being used? - opinion

As tensions rise with Iran, Kurds face a familiar dilemma: seize opportunity or risk repeating a long history of abandonment by global powers.

|ByMEM HUSEDIN, JASON SHVILI

Turkey has no interest in peace in the Eastern Med

Turkey's misguided vision of Pan-Islamism brings with it a culturally dominant form of political Islam and militant Jihadism

AUGUST 31, 2020ByEDY COHEN
A man gestures as people wait for the beginning of Friday prayers outside Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, for the first time after it was once again declared a mosque after 86 years, in Istanbul, Turkey, July 24, 2020

Erdoğan believes he is restoring Turkey to greatness. Is he?

The Erdoğan vision is to recreate the period of Turkish and Ottoman greatness.

AUGUST 31, 2020ByMICAH HALPERN
DEMONSTRATORS PROTEST a visit of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Brussels, March 2020.

Turkey to inform UNESCO on Hagia Sophia after converting it back to mosque

The site was inscribed onto UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1985 under Historic Areas of Istanbul, along with other points of significance in the city.

JULY 13, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan originally proposed re-titling Hagia Sophia as a mosque instead of a museum in March, and last month proposed restoring mosque status to the 6th-century landmark.

Greek PM chides Turkey for genocide against Christians

The Prime Minister blasted Ankara for its current foreign policy that, he said, is ignoring international law on the high seas.

DECEMBER 8, 2019ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Bosnian Jews, Muslims recall lesson in tolerance as extremism rises globally

Bosnia's Jews and Muslims on Thursday marked the bicentenary of the rescue of a dozen Jews from an Ottoman-era governor's jail.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019ByREUTERS
Synagogue in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo

Book review: The genocide of Anatolia’s Christians

New book goes beyond Turkey’s mass murder of Armenians to address its treatment of Greeks and Assyrians

JULY 17, 2019ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
An Armenian woman kneeling beside a dead child in a field “within sight of help and safety at Aleppo.”

Why Tevye the Milkman made aliyah

Tzvi Fishman is simultaneously a jokester and a deadly serious, prolific author with profound ideological commitments.

JANUARY 4, 2019ByRIVKAH LAMBERT ADLER
TZVI FISHMAN: Life in Israel is a constant adventure.

Personal photos capture Holy Land stories of British World War I soldiers

World War I represented the first time that British soldiers could carry a personal camera with them into a military expedition.

DECEMBER 19, 2017ByEYTAN HALON
British soldiers pictured in the Middle East during World War I

Was the Russian Revolution Jewish?

A hundred years after the Bolsheviks swept to power, historians and contemporaries still struggle to understand the prominent role played by Jews.

NOVEMBER 15, 2017BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A BOLSHEVIK poster from 1920 shows Lenin sweeping away monarchs, clergy and capitalists. The Russian translates as ‘Lenin cleans the dirt from the Earth.

Comment: Balfour’s real victory came at Beersheba

Historians have recorded how General Allenby had given each of his soldiers a Bible, and he was often found on his knees looking for direction from above.

OCTOBER 30, 2017ByBENJAMIN GLATT
Descendants of soldiers from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), ride horses along the trail that their ancestors took as troops when they made their way to Beersheba.