Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at an anniversary event for the Apogevmatini newspaper

On Sunday afternoon, 15 September 2024, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was present at an anniversary event which was organised by the active Community of Neochorion on the Bosphorus, during which the official screening of the Documentary for the centenary of the historical expatriate newspaper “Apogevmatini”, entitled “100 – No one is born, No one dies without the Apogevmatini newspaper” took place.

Ms. Melike Çapan, journalist and creator of the Documentary, Mr. Michalis Vasiliadis, journalist, and Mr. Minas Vasiliadis, Editor-Director of Apogevmatini Newspaper, and Mrs. Sibel Güneş, Secretary General of the Turkish Editors’ Union, all welcomed the guests and offered an address. The President of the Ecclesiastical Community, Mr. Nikolaos Kalamaris, addressed a greeting also.

Also present for the event were, His Eminence Metropolitan Athenagoras of Kyrdonia, Overseer of the Bosphorus District, clergy, Archons of the Great Church of Christ, Community leaders, journalists and a numbers of readers and friends of the Apogevmatini Newspaper.

Photographs: Nikos Papachristou