Navarino Challenge | Messinia | October 21-23
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Navarino Challenge comprises more than 30 activities taking place at the Costa Navarino resorts and the seaside town of Pylos in the southwestern Peloponnese.
Turkish opposition joins escalation game
Turkish political leaders were bidding to outdo each other on Tuesday in the use of aggressive rhetoric targeting Greece. Apart from the members of the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, extreme voices of other representatives of the political spectrum are becoming more and more frequent.
Poll: Most Turks see tension with Greece as pre-election ploy
The majority of Turks believe that the current tension between their country and Greece is a pre-election ploy, an opinion poll published on Wednesday suggests. Just over half (51.5%) of the respondents to the MetroPoll survey said that they felt that the tension was “an attempt to create an agenda for the elections.”
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Gov’t minister apologizes for ‘unfortunate’ comments
In comments made to a TV panel discussion on home heating and the energy crisis on Tuesday, Alternate Interior Minister Stelios Petsas said that “whoever doesn’t adjust, dies.”
Former EYP head testifies in Parliamentary Inquiry Committee
Former head of the National Intelligence Service (EYP) Yannis Roubatis gave a six hour testimony on Wednesday in the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee set up to investigate the wiretapping of PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis. Roubatis served as head of EYP from 2015 to 2019 during the premiership of SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras.
Announcements on programme for cheap housing loans to be made on Thursday says minister
Announcements by the ministers involved are to be made on Thursday regarding a programme to restart housing policy, in line with what Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said at the 86th Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), Labor and Social Affairs Minister Kostis Hatzidakis told the state broadcasting television channel ERT3 on Wednesday.
Police discover two assault rifles after pulling over suspicious car
Hellenic Police officers stopped a suspicious vehicle on Wednesday to discover two AK-47 Kalashnikov rifles and ammo magazines with over 90 bullets in the Attica suburb of Haidari. The car’s passengers were a former convict, who had been released last June after a long sentence, and one other person. According to state broadcaster ERT, the…
PM says Pappas left a “unique legacy”
The death of distinguished actress Irene Pappas on Wednesday was addressed by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in a statement released on social media.
Turkish FM makes new statements on Greece
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu made new inflammatory remarks on Greece during a meeting of the central committee of the ruling Justice and Development’s Party (AKP) on Wednesday, according to the Hurriyet newspaper and the TGRT Haber broadcaster.