Developments in Turkey are making it “difficult” to organize the bilateral Supreme Cooperation Council between Greece and Turkey,” Government Spokesman Pavlos Marinakis has said, appearing to rule the possibility of a meeting between Prime Minister Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the near future.
Turkish authorities detained several journalists from their homes, a media workers’ union has reported, in what it said was a crackdown amid escalating protests triggered by the imprisonment of the mayor of Istanbul and top rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Schoolchildren in Athens schools have taken part in the annual parade on Syntagma Square marking the outbreak on March 25, 1821 of the Greek Revolution against Ottoman rule.
On Sunday, March 23, Turkey’s main opposition party, CHP, was to nominate Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglou as its candidate for the country’s presidency, to run against Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkey’s opposition, galvanized by widescale protests over the jailing of Istanbul’s mayor, is hoping to keep the momentum going in part by calling for a boycott of TV stations and businesses it says are “ignoring the moment.”
“The public sector is changing and changing for the better” as a “revolution” is underway, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said during a visit to the Interior Ministry.
Police have announced the arrest of three suspects linked to a criminal gang that hid drugs in juice packaging and distributed them in Athens.
Greece’s tourism jewel Santorini welcomed its first cruise ship of the year on Sunday after thousands of small earthquakes in February created a state of emergency, forced thousands to flee and had locals fearing the season would be lost.
The trial of those responsible for the Tempe rail disaster, Greece’s deadliest, keeps being pushed back as the investigation drags on.