The day after a night in the cheap seats
The presence of so many former comrades of the now fractured left at the Pallas Theater for Alexis Tsipras’ official book presentation last week was bound to be uncomfortable.
Farm protests may end, but government woes won’t
The farmers’ blockades of highways, which are still spreading across Greece, began in Thessaly. This was no accident; this is a region with a heavy farming population and with plenty of grievances against the conservative government.
Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines acquires biggest Czech airline, Smartwings, in a deal worth $180 million
Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines said on Monday it has signed an agreement to acquire the biggest Czech airline, Smartwings, along with its owner, Czech Airlines, from Prague City Air.
Turkish police officer dies from gunshot wounds suffered in Istanbul drug raid
A police officer died Monday after being shot and seriously wounded during an early morning drug raid in Istanbul, Turkish officials said. Officer Emre Albayrak died of his wounds in a hospital. He was part of a special operations team carrying out the raid in the Cekmekoy district on Istanbul’s Asian side. “Our police officer…
Korydallos prison’s psychiatric clinic joins ESY
The Health Ministry announced the integration of the psychiatric ward operating inside Korydallos Prison – Greece’s largest penitentiary – into the National Health System (ESY) and the national mental health network, in an effort to improve the psychiatric care of inmates.
The poet who collected fragments of a city
In 1994, poet Dinos Christianopoulos noted of a handful of ancient sherds a friend had given him: “Except for one, they are all black-glazed and must belong to the Classical period.”
PM urges farmers to scale back protests, promises payments by year-end
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday urged protesting farmers to scale down their blockades, while reaffirming that significant payments and other support would be made by the end of December.
From sacred olive to withered grove: A tale of survival
Dawn rises slowly over the Viotia Plain, casting long shadows across the olive groves that have shaped this landscape for thousands of years. To walk among these trees is to step into a continuum older than most nations, older even than much of recorded memory.
Farmers step up road blockades across Greece
Farmers and livestock breeders across Greece stepped up road blockades on Monday as protests spread nationwide, with unions planning new assemblies to decide their next moves.
Cavafy’s work through the eyes of a Catalan Hellenist
It is not only his easy-flowing Greek that reaches the captivated audience of Catalan Hellenist and former director of the Instituto Cervantes de Atenas, Eusebi Ayensa.