Turkey “was not a target” of the missile launched by Iran that was destroyed as it headed towards Turkish airspace by NATO air-defense systems Wednesday, a Turkish official has said.
Police raided a series of cells in Komotini prison in northern Greece Wednesday and confiscated half a dozen mobile phones fitted with sim cards and chargers, officials said.
A man has been arrested in Piraeus for allegedly using hidden surveillance cameras to record videos of women – including minors – using the toilets of a coffee-bar, police said Wednesday.
Dimitris Koutsoumbas, head of the Communist Party of Greece, claimed Wednesday that two drones intercepted near Cypriot airspace were targeting the US naval base in Souda Bay on the island of Crete, a key American military facility in the eastern Mediterranean.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party has submitted to parliament a draft bill that would ban social media access for children younger than 15.
A group of 39 migrants has been located on the southern island of Crete after making the dangerous crossing from north Africa in a small boat and a South Sudanese teenager has been arrested for allegedly ferrying them across, authorities said Wednesday.
Organized crime squad officers have arrested a man on the southern island of Crete for possession of thousands of illegal flares, police said Wednesday.
Cyprus said a suspect object had been detected close to Lebanese airspace on Wednesday, and a government source said two Greek F-16 fighter jets had been scrambled to intercept it.
Iran finds itself in a particularly difficult position.
A ballistic missile fired from Iran and heading into Turkish airspace after passing Syria and Iraq was destroyed by NATO air and missile defense systems in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the Turkish Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.