Festival brings Greek exiles back to island home they never forgot

It’s festival day and Dino Haimandos is savoring the sight of Gökçeada’s streets filled with Greek Orthodox icons for a parade led by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, who was born on the Turkish island. Now 77, Haimandos returns every summer to the village where he grew up on this island off Turkey’s Aegean coastline, which […] The post Festival brings Greek exiles back to island home they…