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Paul Antonopoulos šŸ‡¬šŸ‡·šŸ‡ØšŸ‡¾ Profile picture
Paul Antonopoulos šŸ‡¬šŸ‡·šŸ‡ØšŸ‡¾
@oulosP
Journalist. Interested in the Eastern Mediterranean and IMEC. From the diaspora.
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Jan 23, 2024 ā€¢ 14 tweets ā€¢ 5 min read
When Greece became independent from the Ottoman Empire in 1830, and as Greece expanded over the next century, the long task of reverting mosques into churches.

Here are some of the reverted churches:

Agios Demetrios church in Thessaloniki, constructed in the early 4th century AD, became a mosque in 1493 but was finally reconsecrated into a church in 1949.Image Hagia Sophia Church in Monemvasia dates to about 1150 but turned into a mosque in 1715. Repair works to turn it into a church again began in 1827. Image
Sep 15, 2022 ā€¢ 4 tweets ā€¢ 2 min read
ā€œWhatever notion I haveā€.

- Pakistanis rape women in Greece in greater numbers.

- Pakistan supports the Turkish occupation of Cyprus.

- Pakistani pilots (flying Turkish jets) violate Greek airspace.

Pakistani twitter users ignorant to their countryā€™s hostility or acting dumb? A catalogue of SOME of the Pakistani-perpetrated rapes in Greece since December 2020.
Sep 15, 2022 ā€¢ 4 tweets ā€¢ 2 min read
Spare me.

Pakistanis, not Indians, rape women in Greece in greater numbers.

Pakistan, not India, supports the Turkish occupation of Cyprus.

Pakistani pilots (flying Turkish jets), not Indian, violate Greek airspace.

Pakistan, not India, is the terrorist capital of the world. Pakistan Navy Aircraft Violated Greek Airspace During Eastern Mediterranean-2019 fighterjetsworld.com/air/pakistan-nā€¦
Aug 2, 2022 ā€¢ 7 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
As someone married to a non-Greek, I urge Greek youth to seriously think when dating someone from a different culture, not all are progressive. Upsetting your parents by dating an Afghani/Pakistani isn't rebellious, you're regressing into backwardness. RIP greekcitytimes.com/2022/08/02/athā€¦ A tragic case that potentially could've been avoided.

It shouldn't have to be said that a 30-year-old Pakistani dating a 17-year-old should be discouraged, not enabled by hosting him in the girl's house.

Greek youth must learn what "love-jihad" is.

greekcitytimes.com/2022/08/03/athā€¦
May 27, 2022 ā€¢ 11 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
Greece has 3 routes to Eurasia.

1) Black Sea-Russia
2) Syria-Iraq-Iran
3) Turkey-Azerbaijan

Athens believes Route 1-2 is ā€œinfeasibleā€ because theyā€™re illiberal dictatorships, which apparently Turkey is notā€¦

Apparently for Greece, Russia-Iran are bigger threats than Turkeyā€¦ From Greece being on the verge of having an economic corridor to India via Iran, Caucasus and Black Sea, to taking instructions from the USA and creating provocation where tensions never had to exist to begin withā€¦

But itā€™s okay, we still have our Turkish and Azeri friendsā€¦
May 20, 2022 ā€¢ 15 tweets ā€¢ 5 min read
Three illegal immigrants from Pakistan, aged 35, 25 and 28, were arrested on charges of attempted gang rape following an allegation from a 40-year-old Bulgarian national in Central Greece. greekcitytimes.com/2022/05/21/larā€¦ Pakistani national Ahmed Waqas, who was imprisoned for leaving a 15-year-old girl on Paros island with a permanent disability after attacking her with a rock and raping her in 2012, has applied for parole.

He was sentenced to life. Keep him there.
protothema.gr/greece/articleā€¦
Apr 7, 2022 ā€¢ 7 tweets ā€¢ 2 min read
Embarrassing!!!

An Azov Battalion fighter, who claimed to be Greek (but canā€™t speak Greek), addressed the Greek parliament.

All those who clapped to this should hang their heads in shame that those who oppressed the Greeks of Mariupol were given a platform in parliament. "Including a message from an Azov Battalion member was wrong and inappropriate", said government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou.

Iā€™d say it was VERY APPROPRIATE as it once again exposed the REAL Ukraine that the government and media are trying to pretend is a liberal bastion.
Apr 7, 2022 ā€¢ 4 tweets ā€¢ 1 min read
Zelensky asked the Greek Parliament for a Greek-inspired secret society be established in Greece "to save Mariupol."

As much as Greeks in Mariupol want peace and normality to return, I can confidently say they don't want the "normal" to be a resurrection of the Azov Battalion. Zelensky told the the Greek Parliament that "We will not allow Russia to destroy our common cultural heritage [in Mariupol]."

He makes no mention that Mariupol's heritage is of the Russian Empire and Empress Catherine the Great, not Ukraine.
Feb 28, 2022 ā€¢ 8 tweets ā€¢ 2 min read
1) Russia says Azov are responsible for the Greek deaths in Mariupol. This aligns with Azov's treatment of Greeks since 2014 despite the naivety to this in Greece, which is proven by Greek media promoting the Azov battalion, who murdered a Greek 2 weeks ago for speaking Russian. 2) The Greek Foreign Ministry said that it has evidence that Russia is responsible for the bombing of Greeks in Sartana. However, it has not yet made that evidence available.
Feb 27, 2022 ā€¢ 38 tweets ā€¢ 11 min read
The murder of 10 Greeks from Russiaā€™s bombardment yesterday doesnā€™t absolve the Azov Battalion for 7-8 years of war crimes and human rights violations in Mariupol - and against the Greek community. Some might have been naive to this, but Iā€™ve been talking about this for years. Even in 2014 The Guardian reported the extremism of the Azov Batallion in Mariupol. Thatā€™s why the Greek villages voted (2014) to join the Donetsk Peopleā€™s Republic, but their villages ended up in Azov hands. Since then the Greeks have faced major problems amp.theguardian.com/world/2014/sepā€¦
Feb 26, 2022 ā€¢ 20 tweets ā€¢ 5 min read
BREAKING: 3 Greeks dead, 6 casualties in Sartana, Ukraine. According to @MegaGegonota, three ethnic Greeks were killed in Sartana (Mariupol district).

"The Ukrainian army is defending itself vigorously."
Feb 22, 2022 ā€¢ 9 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
A Pakistani man attempted to rape a woman in the middle of the street in Sparta. greekcitytimes.com/2022/02/21/spaā€¦ Three illegal immigrants from Pakistan, aged 35, 25 and 28, were arrested on charges of attempted gang rape following an allegation from a 40-year-old Bulgarian national in Central Greece. greekcitytimes.com/2022/05/21/larā€¦
Jun 30, 2021 ā€¢ 5 tweets ā€¢ 4 min read
Have a look here @jihadwatchRS. Another big slap for the misinformation portal "@TurkDNAProject".

Professor Celal Şengor: Anatolians only have 7% genes from Central Asia, we are RĆ»m (Greek) Muslims.

greekcitytimes.com/2021/06/30/proā€¦ 'Creating the desired citizen: ideology, state and Islam in Turkey' by Ihsan Yilmaz, Cambridge University Press, 2021.

He said it was ā€œfunā€ telling his students that those in Pontos are Turkified Greeks & sharing his DNA results with them @TurkDNAProject
google.co.uk/books/edition/ā€¦ ImageImage
Jun 26, 2021 ā€¢ 7 tweets ā€¢ 4 min read
Live now from Napoli (Neapoli/Naples), taken before the Giuseppe Carnevale Lampadedromia begins (within the next hour I believe). ImageImageImage Hellenism is returning to Italy.

See the live video on the link!: facebook.com/insorgenzamediā€¦ Image
Jun 26, 2021 ā€¢ 7 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
"It is of particular privilege to be here on the two hundredth anniversary of your independence. It is therefore a statement of support, solidarity, friendship with Greece," the Indian FM said to the Greek PM.

A very interesting conversation ā¬‡ļøā¬‡ļøā¬‡ļø greekcitytimes.com/2021/06/26/indā€¦ Indian Foreign Minister Jaishankar looking swag in the suit and glasses (in meeting with Greek FM Nikos Dendias).

Although I do think he would look cooler in a Achkan or Bandhgala. Image
Jun 11, 2021 ā€¢ 10 tweets ā€¢ 5 min read
THREAD:

This is a continuously updated thread on Greek history, influence, culture, philosophy etc in India.

Relief of Dionysus, God of religious ecstasy, in Nagarjunakonda, Southern India, 3rd century CE.

Dionysus was called Nysian or Nysean (ĪĻĻƒĪ¹ĪæĻ‚) by the Indians.

#India Image Greek mythological hero Heracles/Iraklis/Hercules depiction of Vajrapani as the protector of the Buddha, 2nd century AD Gandhara.

Heracles was the son of Zeus and the mortal woman Alcmene.

The relief can be seen in the British museum. Image
Apr 15, 2021 ā€¢ 7 tweets ā€¢ 1 min read
Dendias completely made a fool of Ƈavuşoğlu during their live joint statement.

Highlights that the Treaty of Lausanne affirms there's no Turkish minority, but a Muslim one.

Says if Turkey "wants" to join EU like it says it does, it must acknowledge UNCLOS.

More details coming. Dendias said to Ƈavuşoğlu that "the only solution that is accepted by the entire international community is the bi-zonal-bi-communal federation of Cyprus."
Oct 30, 2020 ā€¢ 12 tweets ā€¢ 2 min read
1) Terrorist apologist justify the attacks on France because of its 132 years of colonizing Algeria.

Greeks were colonized by Turks for 400-500 years, experienced a genocide (1914-23) with a million exterminated & a pogrom (1955) that expelled 120,000 Greeks from Constantinople. 2) This is not to minimize the Algerian experience of brutal French colonization but to highlight it's not a justification why "Muslims have a right to be angry & kill millions of French people,ā€ as the former Malaysian PM said.

Does he support Greeks killing millions of Turks?
Oct 28, 2020 ā€¢ 5 tweets ā€¢ 2 min read
Today is Oxi (No) Day where we mythologize Metaxas saying NO to Mussolini's demands that Greece capitulates and becomes an Italian vassal.

Not only were the Italians thrown back into Albania from where they invaded, but the course of World War 2 changed because of Greek heroes. My grandfather Nikos Papathanasiou from Skoteini village in Argolis was 16 years old when the Italians attempted to invade Greece.

He stole his brothers ID card to show he was of legal fighting age.

During the war and resistance period, he was shot 4x on 3 different occasions.
Aug 11, 2020 ā€¢ 5 tweets ā€¢ 2 min read
When will Turks realize that Erdogan's bravado against Greece is to distract them from the bad economic situation.

While Turkish ships waste fuel in the Aegean attempting to do impossible seismic survey's, Greeks continue to drink frappe on the islands and watch the lira tumble. Turkey's unemployment rate is currently 12.9%.

Unemployment in 2011 was 9.1%.

The 2023 target is 5%.

Erdogan is making Turkey go backwards but Turks are foolish enough to be distracted with hostilities against Greece
ahvalnews.com/unemployment/tā€¦)%20reported%20on%20its%20website.
Aug 10, 2020 ā€¢ 20 tweets ā€¢ 7 min read
War of nerves now.

Will Greece keep Turkish ships out of their Exclusive Economic Zone as they promised?

Will Turkey backdown as it embarrassingly did a few weeks ago? I doubt Erdogan will allow that to happen again.

Serious escalation by Turkey that could lead to conflict. 7 Turkish warships are accompanying the OruƧ Reis research vessel into Greeceā€™s Exclusive Economic Zone. No word just yet on how exactly Greece will respond to this provocation.