“People come to touch the walls”: Fears for Constantinople’s crumbling Byzantine past
Turkish city’s pre-Ottoman heritage is falling away through lack of care or being obscured for political purposes
Anthony Blinken at the PM Mitsotakis’ house in Chania
Earlier, the head of American diplomacy had met in Constantinople with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan and the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Broken pagan statue of Greek god Pan unearthed at early church ruins in Turkey
It is unlikely that a Christian church would have kept a statue of such a pagan god