Construction of a €1.9 billion-euro section of an electricity cable that will connect the power grids of Greece and Cyprus is slated to begin in the new year, officials said Thursday.
Turkey’s interior minister has reportedly told three Greek government ministers that it is Turkey’s intention to stop the flow of migrants at sea in the same way as it stemmed the migration flow on land.
This year marks the 15th anniversary of the lethal shooting of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos by a police officer in Athens in December 2008.
Fifteen declarations, agreements and memoranda of cooperation, concerning a wide range of sectors, from tourism , energy and trade to research, education and transport, were signed at the 5th Greece-Turkey High Level Cooperation Council.
Firefighters attending to a fire in an abandoned building in central Athens have pulled a man out of the structure. The man was unconscious when firefighters found him. A team of 10 firefighters with four tenders responded to the fire.
A meeting between the Greek and Turkish defense ministers as part of the 5th Greece-Turkey High Level Cooperation Council in Athens took place “in a positive atmosphere,” Defense Ministry sources have said.
The lure of a supposedly well-paid job and a decent life is frequently the perfect snare for thousands of women held in the clutches of human trafficking rings, from which only a small proportion will escape.
Greece and Turkey agreed on Thursday to mend their ties by promoting good neighborly relations, keeping communication channels open and focusing on low-level issues, such as culture and economy.
Three metro stations in central Athens that had been closed while visiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s motorcade was travelling through the capital were reopened on Thursday afternoon.
A riot police unit posted outside a building at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki that had been an anarchist squat until it was cleared recently, came under attack on Wednesday morning.