Religious freedom in the Turkish Republic Latest developments The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) published a new study titled “Examination of Threats to Religious Sites in Turkey” on Monday, November 13, 2023. The study looks at existing threats to non-Muslim religious sites in Turkey, highlighting the current predicament…

Albania: EU accession, Greek minority, and rule of law Latest developments Greece has formally declined to be part of a joint letter to open the first stages of negotiations for Albania’s accession to the European Union. With this decision, Greece has made clear that Albania’s persecution of its sizable Greek…

This Saturday — one day after the 50-year anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, Israelis awoke to an invasion and multi-front attack on Israel’s southern border by Hamas. These Iranian and Turkish backed terrorists attacked from land, sea and air — launching 5,000 rockets and going door to door killing…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 21, 2023 Chairman Menendez Announces NDAA Amendment to Bolster Defense of Cyprus WASHINGTON — Today, Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced the introduction of a key foreign policy amendment to improve long-term planning in security assistance meant to support national…

February 9, 2023 Washington, DC: Congressman Gus Bilirakis (FL-12), one of the original founders of CHIA, is honored to be joined by his new Co-Chair, Congressman David N. Cicilline (RI-01) to celebrate the launch of the bipartisan Congressional Hellenic-Israel Alliance (CHIA) for the 118th Congress. CHIA works to strengthen and…

Erini Kosmas, HALC Pericles Fellow “If there had not been the virtue and courage of the Greeks, we do not know which the outcome of World War II would have been.” — Winston Churchill Rain, sleet, then snow covered the grounds of Eastern Europe in late October of 1940. Angst…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), a member of the Hellenic Caucus, led a bipartisan group of 19 lawmakers in expressing concern about recent reports that Turkey is considering further acquisitions of Russian S-400 missile defense systems and restating their opposition to and requesting an update from U.S…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 17, 2022 WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were joined by Representatives Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) …

In 2021, the Hellenic American Leadership Council celebrated the Bicentennial of the Greek Revolution of 1821 with an online series on philhellenism. As The National Herald noted when the series launched in the beginning of the year: the Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC) is teaming up with the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, the Embassy of Greece in the United States, the Consulate General of Greece in Chicago, and the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago to present a four-part series titled Philhellenism through the Ages.