Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople has sent a letter to Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, protesting the desecration of the Panagia Sumela Monastery, the Ecumenal Patriarchate said on Tuesday

The Greek Orthodox Church expressed on Tuesday a "strong protest" against the desecration of the Sumela Monastery in the Turkish province of Trabzon, where local authorities allowed a disco inside what is considered one of the world's oldest Orthodox Christian shrines

The Greek Foreign Ministry condemned on Monday the desecration of the Sumela Monastery in the Turkish province of Trabzon, where local authorities allowed holding a disco inside what is considered one of the world's oldest Orthodox Christian shrines

The warning about a bomb planted inside an aircraft of Kuwait's Jazeera Airways turned out to be fake, the airline told Al Arabiya on Thursday

A Jazeera Airways plane flying from Kuwait landed in Turkey's north-eastern city of Trabzon after reports of a bomb on board, CNN Turk broadcaster reported on Thursday