Amid an escalating war of words between Turkey and Greece over disputes in the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean, both countries came together Tuesday to participate in an annual NATO naval exercise.
There were no real surprises at the Thessaloniki International Fair on the weekend. In his keynote speech, the PM made it clear that the general elections will take place as planned, under the current electoral law.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yelled, “Greeks, don’t forget Smyrna!” Beyond a shadow of a doubt, how could Greeks ever forget not only Smyrna, but the whole of Ionia.
The Speaker of the Turkish Parliament Mustafa Sentop referred to Greece as a national threat in a speech with his Maltese counterpart on Tuesday.
Greece’s privatization agency has set September 22 as the new deadline for binding bids for a majority stake in the northern port of Alexandroupoli, two sources close to the matter said on Tuesday.
“The loss of his work in Asia Minor is something he mourned deeply,” says the curator of the Teloglion Fine Arts Foundation’s collection of a traumatizing chapter in the life and career of esteemed Greek artist Spyros Papaloukas.
A 55-year-old woman died in northern Greece after her husband allegedly doused her in gasoline and set her on fire ‒ the latest in a series of killings that have revived a debate on whether stronger legal measures are needed to protect women from violence.
Iran has agreed to release the crews of the Greek tankers it seized in May, the MT Prudent Warrior and Delta Poseidon, in response to the confiscation of oil by the United States from an Iranian-flagged tanker in Greece.
JPMorgan upgraded Piraeus Bank to “overweight” and said it was positive on Greece’s four big banks in a research report published on Tuesday.
A fire has broken out on the island of Thasos in the north Aegean Sea on Tuesday afternoon. According to information from the Hellenic Fire Service, the blaze is burning a wooded area near Rachoni.