President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday admitted there were problems with his government’s initial response to a devastating earthquake in southern Turkey amid anger from those left destitute and frustrated over the slow arrival of rescue teams.
The region of southeastern Turkey and northern Syria affected by the massive earthquakes on Monday was a center of the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Muslim world with important archaeological sites. UNESCO is examining the extent of the damage, concerned about the situation in Aleppo (with the city’s citadel, old wall and historic markets damaged), as…
A Greek C-130 plane carrying a second EMAK disaster response team to assist Turkey with the rescue efforts following Monday’s massive earthquake returned to Greece as a precaution after pilots received a fault indicator.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan visited southern Turkey on Wednesday to see first-hand the destruction wrought by a massive earthquake as anger grew among local people over what they said was a slow government response to the rescue and relief effort.
New Democracy MP Manousos Voloudakis has died at the age of 56 after being diagnosed with lung cancer. Voloudakis, who was first elected as an MP for the conservative party in 2007, representing the constituency of Hania, Crete. He was re-elected in the 2012 and 2019 elections. Born in Athens in 1966, he graduated from…
The 2022 fiscal deficit is ultimately estimated to be significantly below 2023 budget projections, based on the latest data, confirming the trend seen last month in government budget execution data.
An increase in migrant arrivals has been observed in the last two months despite the wintry conditions making the crossing more difficult and dangerous.
Six out of 10 births in Greece are by caesarean section, compared to 25% in Northern, Western and Eastern Europe, according to World Health Organization data published in 2021.
The European Civil Protection Mechanism has informed the Republic of Cyprus that the country’s offer to send a rescue team to quake-stricken Turkey has been accepted by Ankara, Foreign Ministry spokesman Dimitris Demetriou said in a tweet Wednesday.
The second migrant shipwreck off the coast of Greece this week left five people dead and nine still missing, according to the Hellenic Coast Guard on Tuesday as the search proceeded in the chilly, windy conditions.