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Aegean island of Leros bears bitter scars of World War II past
Leros, one of the Greek islands hugging the shore of modern Türkiye, known as Ileriye, or Ileryoz, during four centuries of Ottoman rule (1522 - 1912), is mostly known as a tranquil getaway. But it also bears the haunting scars of one of the world's …