President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday he believes Turkey’s practice of appointing state “trustees” to replace elected mayors will become a rare occurrence once the PKK militant group acts on its decision to disband.
Competition in the 69th Eurovision Song Contest kicked off Tuesday, with sauna-loving Swedish entry KAJ gaining a place in the final and five countries going home after the first of two semifinals of the pan-continental music extravaganza.
The number of irregular border crossings into the European Union fell by 27% in the first four months of 2025, reaching nearly 47,000, preliminary data from the EU’s border agency Frontex showed on Wednesday.
An explosion occurred early Wednesday at the entrance of an apartment building housing Maximos Charakopoulos, a lawmaker from Greece’s ruling New Democracy party, in the Petralona district of Athens.
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The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose a diverse Christian Orthodox community.
Turkish police detained 97 students on Tuesday in Istanbul’s Bogazici University over a protest against an Islamic preacher’s conference on the campus, the city’s governor said.
A 48-year-old teacher at a private school in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, is under investigation after an 11-year-old student accused him of sexual harassment, police said.
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off the island of Crete early on Wednesday, the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens said, with no reports of injuries or serious damage.