The American Hellenic Institute is an advocacy organization and policy center founded by United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Eugene Rossides in 1974. Its purpose is promoting United Stat
AHI is active in foreign policy issues affecting Cyprus, Greece, Albania, Turkey, and North Macedonia, among others.
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I
Turkey invaded Cyprus on 20 July 1974 in an operation that progressed in two phases over the following month. Taking place upon a background of intercommunal violence between Greek and Turkish Cypriot
Varosha, a suburb of Famagusta, was abandoned when its inhabitants fled in 1974 and remains under military control
A view from the cemetery in the village of Maratha, where the victims of the massacre are buried individually. This is the photograph of a family grave, showing the four children killed in a single family.
Greek Cypriot prisoners taken to Adana camps in Turkey
A view from the interior of Antiphonitis, where frescoes have been looted