Turkey to Greece: You did it first
Turkey claims Greece violated its airspace twice this week, and that it had replied to those violations Friday “based on reciprocity and in accordance with” the Turkish Air Force’s rules of engagement.
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BoC sees its profits grow in Q1 2022
Bank of Cyprus group on Thursday announced a net profit of 21 million euros for the first quarter of 2022, compared to a net profit of €8 million in the first quarter of 2021.
44 airspace violations by Turkey registered on Friday
Four pairs of Turkish F-16s, one Turkish unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and two Turkish navy transport aircraft CN-235s entered Athens Flight Information Region on Friday without submitting a flight plan, the Greek military said on Friday.
ATHEX: Weekly drop contained to 0.8%
As the benchmark recovered most of the ground lost the previous day, it was led higher by banks, and the very stocks that had contained Thursday’s losses – OTE and OPAP – were among the day’s biggest losers at the end of the week.
PASOK’s congress
Having switched back to their old name but with a new leadership in place, the once-dominant PASOK socialists will have an opportunity to clarify their policy program at the upcoming party congress.
Greece condemns Turkish incursion near Alexandroupoli as ‘unprecedented violation of sovereignty’
The Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the incursion of two Turkish fighter jets within 2.5 nautical miles of the northeastern city of Alexandroupoli on Friday, calling the incident an “unprecedented violation of national sovereignty.”
Niarchos Foundation cancels €4 million grant to Culture Ministry over ‘systematic delays’
A prominent philanthropic organization announced on Friday the cancellation of a €4 million grant to the Culture Ministry to protect archaeological findings due to “constant and systematic delays” in the project.
After string of adventures, ancient gold ring back in Greece
A more than 3,000-year-old gold signet ring that was stolen from an Aegean island in World War II, crossed the Atlantic, was bought by a Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian scientist and ended up in a Swedish museum has found its way back to Greece.
Cyprus drills hone skills on evacuations from conflict zones
Seven countries including Greece, the US, France, Italy and Israel have taken part in a series of drills in and around Cyprus designed to ease civilian evacuations from conflict zones and to conduct offshore rescue operations, amid a renewed sense of urgency due to the war in Ukraine.