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Turkish Father Makes Emotional Plea for Family Missing in Greek River
Two of the three missing children A woman and her three children went missing after a boat carrying several Turkish asylum seekers capsized in the Evros River along the Turkey-Greece border on...
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4 Turkish Citizens Arrested for Crossing Illegally into Greece
Greek police arrested four Turkish nationals for illegally crossing into Greek territory near the Evros River it emerged on Friday. The four, arrested on Thursday, will be led to a judge in the town...
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Turkish Cypriot Leader Hails Turkey’s 1974 ‘Intervention’
Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said on Thursday that Turkey’s military intervention in Cyprus “had prevented the situation from worsening”. Marking the beginning of a series of celebrations in...
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Evros Tragedy: Bodies of Turkish Woman, Child, Found
The bodies of a missing 36-year-old Turkish woman and one of her three children, aged 1, were found on the Turkish side of the Evros River. Turkish and Greek police boats continued their search for...
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Leading Greek Law Professor Stavros Tsakyrakis Dies at 67
Professor of constitutional law Stavros Tsakyrakis has died from cancer aged 67. Tsakyrakis, who was imprisoned and tortured for his liberal views by the Greek junta, gave his last lecture at the...
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Greek Students Get Top Prize for Formula Racing Car Design (video)
The Greek students celebrate their success at Silverstone A group of Greek students from the University of Thessaly has won the top prize for their innovative Formula racing car at an international...
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Awesome Photo of Cretan Sunset Goes Viral
This amazing photo of the sunset in Greece’s Crete is spreading like wildfire on Greek social media. Snapped by Natalia Platyrachou it captures the sun about to disappear under the sea. The...
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Greece’s Gas Grid Operator Sold to Snam-Led Consortium
A consortium led by Italy’s Snam will take a majority stake in Greek gas grid operator DESFA under a 535 million euro ($623 million) deal signed on Friday, the country’s HRADF privatization agency...
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The Stunning Beauty of Corfu’s Paleokastritsa Captured by Drone (video)
Paleokastritsa is arguably the most famous picturesque village of the Greek island of Corfu located 25 km (15 miles) northwest of Corfu Town. It is chiefly memorable for its exceptional scenery along...
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Holidaymakers Desert Athens as New Heatwave Hits Greece
The first large wave of holidaymakers has left the Greek cities for their annual holidays, as meteorologists warn that a new heat wave is expected to strike the country in the coming days. On Friday...
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Two Migrants Killed by Train in Northern Greece
Two migrants were killed in two separate incidents by the same Greek train near the border with Turkey in the early hours of Saturday. Police in the city of Alexandroupolis say the train on the...
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Greek Poet and Novelist Manos Eleftheriou Dies at 80
Manos Eleftheriou, one of the greatest Greek poets, novelists and songwriters of recent decades died in Athens on Sunday. He was 80. He was born in Syros and has published many novels, collections of...
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Mesmerizing Photo the Moment Ancient Masterpiece is Unearthed at Delphi
Delphi, Greece, 1894. Archaeologists and workers pose in front of the magnificent statue of Antinous that was rediscovered near the Temple of Apollo in the sanctuary at Delphi. The statue was...
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22 July 1943: The Day Greeks Rebelled Against the Nazis for Macedonia
Greeks have a passionate love affair with Macedonia, and even during the darkest hour of modern Greek history during the brutal occupation of the Nazis they were prepared to give their lives for...
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Meet the Greek Beauty Flying with the Saudi Royals (photo)
Kyriaki Katsogresaki was selected among dozens of applicants to work as flight attendant in the fleet of the Saudi royal family. Born in the small village of Ziros, in Crete’s Sitia, the Greek beauty...
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Huge Forest Fire Breaks Out in Greece’s Skopelos
Dozens of fire fighters aided by planes are trying to bring under control a fire that broke out on Sunday in the island of Skopelos. The fire is burning pine forest near the picturesque village of...
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Heatwave in Greece Closes the Acropolis
Greek authorities decided to close the archaeological site of the Acropolis at 2 p.m. on Sunday, as the temperature on the bare rock climbed up to the 40-degree Celsius mark (104 ºF). The site will...
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Τomb of ‘Prominent Woman’ Unearthed in Greece’s Sikinos
A tomb of a prominent woman came to light in Episkopi, Sikinos, during the restoration work of the Episkopi Monument that the Ministry of Culture and Sports has carried out along with the Ephorate of...
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Greek Evzone Sizzles in Athens Heatwave (photos)
Spare a thought of the brave Evzone who is required to stand still on Sunday at the Monument of the Unknown Soldier in front of the Hellenic Parliament as temperatures climbed up to the 40-degree...
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Greek Crews Battle Forest Fire at Kineta, East of Athens
A big fire broke out on the mountain slopes of Gerania, near the resort town of Kineta, about 50 km (30 miles) east of Athens. Dozens of fire fighters aided by three water-dropping planes and two...
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