Russia canceled a bid to send four of its warships through Turkish waters into the Black Sea at Turkey’s request, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said, adding the decision was made before Ankara closed the straits over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Greece’s energy market is anxiously waiting to see whether the banks it makes its transactions with for the procurement of natural gas are to be suspended from the SWIFT global payments system.
The Acropolis Museum is now showing a synthesis of the entire Parthenon frieze, the 160 meter-long relief sculpture that adorned the upper part of the inner temple (cella), in an upgraded version of the web application www.parthenonfrieze.gr.
A humanitarian corridor was set to be opened Wednesday for the evacuation of Greek nationals from the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol as Russia’s invasion of the former Soviet republic continues.
The war in Ukraine has set off the fastest mass migration in Europe in at least three decades, prompting comparisons with the Balkan wars of the 1990s and providing echoes of the vast population displacement that followed World War II.
Ankara remains committed to dialogue with Athens, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar has said, while accusing Greece of seeking to exploit the crisis in Ukraine in order to attack Turkey.
The entry of Ukrainian refugees to Greece will be eased in close cooperation with the Ukrainian Embassy, Minister of Civil Protection Takis Theodorikakos announced Tuesday.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called on Ukraine and Russia to immediately stop fighting and to “contribute to world peace,” adding Ankara was not opposed to NATO enlargement.
Turkey has no place in the European Union and any pre-integration assistance given to the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan must be opposed, the center-right Republicans’ candidate for the French presidency, Valerie Pecresse, tells Kathimerini in an exclusive interview.
Despite the existing differences in what is normally a intensely polarized Greek Parliament, which convened Tuesday to discuss the unfolding developments concerning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a more consensual approach to foreign policy emerged – something not seen in a long time.