Sener Levent, the journalist and editor-in-chief of the Turkish Cypriot newspaper Avrupa, has been sentenced in absentia to one year in prison in Turkey after his article “The Kurds and Us.”
The Breeder presents “Seven Days in New Crete,” an solo exhibition by Aristeidis Lappas.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited Alexandrouli and Dadia Forest in Evros, northern Greece, on Monday after the recent devastating fires.
We are facing a new kind of war, and if we do not realize that the country’s very survival will be in doubt. Either we get serious or we will sink. It’s time we all put our egos aside. Starting with the prime minister.
According to a voice recording that was published by Greek broadcaster ANT1 on Monday, the captain of the Blue Horizon ferry claimed the 36-year-old victim “Slipped and fell.” The captain admitted to seeing the incident on camera, which clearly shows the victim did not slip, but was pushed by the crew members.
Storm Daniel has also hit Libya, Greece’s southern neighbor. At least 150 people have been killed in the eastern Libyan city of Derna over the last two days and the death toll is expected to rise to 250, the head of the Red Crescent in Benghazi said on Monday.
Government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis in a press briefing on Monday said that “the security forces and military are continuing their efforts for the rescue and support operation in the areas hit by storm Daniel.”
In Japanese culture, the term Hibakusha (“bomb survivor”) describes the civilians who survived the destruction when atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A man convicted of forming and participating in a criminal organisation was arrested on Saturday night in western Athens. Police said they located the man in the district of Peristeri.
Greece’s main opposition said on Monday that the former shipping minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis’ resignation over his mishandling of the death of a ferry passenger in Piraeus came “with a six-day delay.”