In the sacred space of the Asklepieion of Kos – the birthplace of Medicine and homeland of Hippocrates – the glorious ceremony of swearing in of distinguished doctors from Greek and international Universities took place yesterday, October 18. The event is part of the Hippocratic Week, which includes the Hippocratic School, the Symposium and the Oath. New Greek TV Presdent Yanna Darilis was there and was appointed appointed ambassador of IHF, promoting the legacy of Hippocrates and Greece’s contribution of original medicine.

Tufan Erhürman, leader of the pro-reunification Republican Turkish Party, has won the Turkish Cypriot presidential election in a landslide on Sunday, decisively defeating the Ankara-backed incumbent Ersin Tatar.

The ordination of the unanimously elected Archbishop Symeon of Sinai, Pharan and Raithu took place on Sunday in Jerusalem, with Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem presiding.

Egypt and Greece have reached a “preliminary understanding” regarding the status of St. Catherine’s Monastery at Mt. Sinai, Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis has announced.