Turkey’s central bank has slashed interest rates for the third month in a row, making its biggest drop this year despite sky-high inflation that is squeezing people’s finances as it follows President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s unorthodox economic views.
Greek Justice Minister Kostas Tsiaras will have to decide on whether to extradite a Serbian man to Croatia, where he is wanted for alleged war crimes committed in 1991, during the bloody break-up of Yugoslavia, or Serbia, which lodged a similar request on October 11.
Turkey’s launch on Tuesday of the Tayfun ballistic missile, with a range of 561 kilometers, is seen as further testimony to the effort it is putting into developing its defense industry.
The trial of 12 suspects linked to the brutal murder of 19-year-old Alkis Kambanos last February will be held in Thessaloniki on January 18, 2023, a few days before the one-year anniversary of his killing.
A 30-year-old man accused by a 12-year-old girl from northern Greece of rape was arrested and sent to pretrial detention on Thursday.
Dozens of student union members from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki were marching in the center of Thessaloniki on Thursday morning to protest the injury of a 19-year-old student who fell from the second floor window of the campus’ law school building.
Small states seem more resilient and healthy in an increasingly unstable world, points out Harold James, the Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies, a professor of history and international affairs and director of the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society at Princeton University.
Fighter jets of the Greek Air Force will conduct test flights over the wider area of Thessaloniki on Thursday in preparation for the commemoration of the October 28 national holiday.
A man and a woman who went missing in Lefkada, western Greece, on Tuesday afternoon were found dead in a ravine at the south of the island.
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias reiterated during his meeting on Wednesday in Kyiv with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Greece will continue to demonstrate complete solidarity with Ukraine and fully condemns any attempt to change borders by the forces of revisionism.