Expert Sinan Ciddi joins Thanos Davelis to look into the latest “warning” from Ankara to Nicosia, which comes after Hezbollah threatened Cyprus. We also dig into the Turkey-Hezbollah connection, and look at what role Ankara will likely play in any potential conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
With the 50th anniversary of Turkey’s bloody invasion of Cyprus coming up on July 20, Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler on Tuesday said his country is preparing to celebrate what he said was a “peace operation.”
Last month was the hottest June ever experienced by the Greek capital since meteorological records began in 1860, according to the National Observatory of Athens.
A 38-year-old man was remanded into custody on Tuesday after responding to arson charges over a fire in Rafina in eastern Attica last Saturday.
A biopic on the Greek music legend Stelios Kazantzidis (1931-2001) is currently being filmed in Athens, Piraeus and other locations in a Tanweer production directed by Yorgos Tsemberopoulos.
The national weather service, EMY, issued an emergency bulletin on Tuesday warning of powerful storms starting in northwestern Greece on Wednesday and spreading south on Thursday, hitting several popular holiday destinations along the way.
The police investigation into the Mafia-style assassination of a 54-year-old civil engineer in the northern Athens suburb of Neo Psychiko on Tuesday morning is reportedly focusing on the victim’s professional activities on popular holiday islands where illegal construction runs rampant.
Seeking to acquaint ourselves with the retired livestock farmer who is among the 21 MEPs who will represent Greece in the European Parliament, we visited Toula Alexandrakis’ butcher shop in Alexandroupoli, northeastern Greece.
That things were not going well was already blatantly obvious – only the distortive lens of arrogance could make people who didn’t want to face up to the truth think otherwise.
Dora Bakoyannis, a former minister and prominent MP and member of governing New Democracy, has dismissed Monday’s scathing comments by former conservative prime minister Antonis Samaras leveled against the government, as being reactionary and petulant.