Turkey’s Foreign Ministry handed a protest note to Greek Embassy counselor in Ankara on Wednesday after an incident in the Aegean Sea involving a Greek Coast Guard vessel and a Turkish fishing boat.
The Central Archaeological Committee (KAS) has approved on Wednesday a proposal and preliminary study to light the ancient temple of Aphaea on the island of Aegina. According to a statement released by the Culture Ministry, the aim of this endeavor will be to highlight the temple and its immediate surroundings without impacting the site.
The smouldering hulk of the Euroferry Olympia, the Italian-flagged ferry that caught fire at sea on Friday, arrived at the mainland port of Astakos, in western Greece, on Wednesday.
Greece received 14.7 million tourists last year, according to the border survey of the Bank of Greece, up from 7.4 million in 2020, with the Germans, the British and the French offering major support to Greek tourism last year.
The daily briefing by Greek health authorities announced 16,962 new cases on Wednesday, down from 19,623 on Tuesday. The report by the National Organization for Public Health (EODY) also stated that there were 53 virus-related deaths over the last 24 hours and that there are currently 459 intubated patients being treated in Intensive Care Units…
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday said that changing international borders through force cannot be tolerated, adding that there needed to be a common response to Russian ‘provocations’
Divers in northern Greece on Wednesday recovered the body of a 40-year-old man who had been missing since Sunday night after the boat he was travelling in capsized.
President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey could open its borders with Armenia and re-establish diplomatic ties after years if Yerevan was committed to an ongoing normalization process between their countries, according to broadcaster NTV and others.
A pedestrian was struck and killed by a train near Kryoneri, northeast of the capital, on Wednesday.
President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey’s talks with the United States on the modernization of F-16 fighter jets was going well, Turkish broadcaster HaberTurk and other media reported on Wednesday.