Izmir, Turkey — Frantic search and rescue efforts continued Monday in Turkey's western city of Izmir, with the rescue of a little girl from the destruction caused by an earthquake three days earlier ...

On June 21, Turkish media reported that the Saint-Jean Theologos Greek Girls School in Smyrna, now known as Izmir, which has been empty since the extermination of the city's Greek Christians in 1922, ...

Istanbul — Covered in dust but otherwise healthy, three-year-old Ayda Gezgin was pulled from the rubble of an 8-storey building on Tuesday, four days after a magnitude 7 earthquake battered her home ...

IZMIR, TURKEY—The Daily Sabah reports that excavators led by Akin Ersoy of Dokuz Eylül University found Greek words and names carved in a wall of the basilica in the marketplace of ancient Smyrna. The ...

Smyrna has gone to the birds—well, at least one bird. There is a turkey, Smyrna residents say, that lives near the intersection of Sam Ridley Parkway and Motlow College Boulevard, by the YMCA. Named ...

Izmir, a hub of Sephardic history, is drawing tourists with a synagogue restoration project. IZMIR, Turkey (JTA) — Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has been a popular tourist destination for ...