After decades of decline, Greek life returns to Imvros

In Agridia, a picturesque village connected the western broadside of Imvros successful Turkey, Greek beingness is stirring backmost to beingness done education.

After decades of diminution that began with the 1964 closure of Greek schools and a prohibition connected teaching the language, the land saw its archetypal Greek number simple schoolhouse reopen successful 2013.

Two years later, Imvros gained its first-ever Greek inferior and elder precocious schools. “Only astir 200 aged radical remained, and very fewer children,” said Nikolas Lemopoulos, the schools’ principal. “Now there are astir 700.” Around 50 students are enrolled crossed each grades, astir from returning families.

Lemopoulos credits the schools with reviving the island’s Greek community. “Without schools, radical simply cannot unrecorded successful a place,” helium said.

Today, Greek cafes and restaurants enactment the streets, and Lemopoulos describes peaceful relations with Turkish neighbors. Eighteen teachers teach a program overseen by Turkey’s Education Ministry.

The adjacent challenge, Lemopoulos said, is convincing graduates to return: “We anticipation numbers will support growing.”