Turkey Detains 18 People over Izmir Attack

Turkish police detained 18 people in connection with Thursday's gun and bomb attack which killed two people in the city of Izmir, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Friday.

Une explosion a tué deux personnes jeudi près d’un tribunal à Izmir

Une explosion a tué deux personnes jeudi près d’un tribunal à Izmir, dans l’ouest de la Turquie. Deux "terroristes" ont également été abattus, selon l'agence progouvernementale Anadolu.

Αποσιωπούν την πυρπόληση της Σμύρνης

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 Της ΙΩΑΝΝΑΣ ΚΛΕΦΤΟΓΙΑΝΝΗ (ENET.GR)

Λέει για τους συμπατριώτες της η Τουρκάλα σκηνοθέτις Νεσρίν Καζάνκαγια. Στην Αθήνα φέρνει την παράσταση του έργου της «Ω Σμύρνη μου, όμορφή μου Izmir» (5-6 Ιουνίου, Πειραιώς 260, Φεστιβάλ Αθηνών)

The ghosts of Smyrna in Izmir ....

The Hellenic spirit still lingers in Smyrna, writes Alexander Billinis (neoskosmos.com)

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There is something about travel to our lost homelands that creates spectral yearnings in me. I have had the great fortune to visit and to experience nearly every country bordering Greece, or where the Byzantine legacy still remains in culture or edifice. Nowhere were the ghosts more numerous than in my visit to Smyrna last autumn.

This is probably because Byzantine and Hellenic legacy is officially expunged from the record in Izmir, whereas in Constantinople there is still a tiny Greek community and the Patriarchate of Constantinople maintains a slipping grip on the spiritual legacy of Byzantium, and over all Orthodox. It could be, too, that what the city represents simply transcends the grave for Byzantine descendents.

Whatever it was, even Constantinople did not stir up the same whirl of spectral emotions as Smyrna.