On Sunday afternoon, 15 September 2024, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew attended an anniversary event organized by the active Community of Neochorion on the Bosphorus. The event featured the official screening of the Documentary for the centenary of the historical expatriate newspaper “Apogevmatini”, titled “100 – No one is born, No one dies without the Apogevmatini newspaper”.
Ms. Melike Çapan, journalist and creator of the Documentary, Mr. Michalis Vasiliadis, journalist, Mr. Minas Vasiliadis, Editor-Director of Apogevmatini Newspaper, and Mrs. Sibel Güneş, Secretary General of the Turkish Editors’ Union, welcomed the guests and delivered speeches. The President of the Ecclesiastical Community, Mr. Nikolaos Kalamaris, also greeted the attendees.
Other notable figures present at the event included Metropolitan Athenagoras of Kyrdonia, Overseer of the Bosphorus District, clergy, Archons of the Great Church of Christ, Community leaders, journalists, and a number of readers and friends of the Apogevmatini Newspaper.
Photographs: Nikos Papachristou