The buzuq twangs, the tapan beats and Sevi Bayraktar lets out a joyous zilgit that pierces the air. The zilgit, a shrill Kurdish cry, expresses the feelings of the female dancers of Asia Minor. A ...

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Commemorating the 101st anniversary of the Asia Minor Disaster, the exhibition Siko Psichi Mou!…Images and Music of Refugees of ’22, of the Foundation of the Hellenic Parliament for Parliamentaryism ...

How did modern Anatolia come to be occupied by the Turks? The historical story may surprise you.

A school project led Celene Kumaru to discover her roots in Asia Minor and the escape of her great-grandfather's family from Smyrna in 1922. She tells his story through his memoirs. Celene Coumaros’ ...