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A legacy of weakness, concessions, and economic disasters

Former Greek prime minister Costas Simitis, who led the country into the European Union’s single currency in 2001, died on Sunday aged 88 at his summer house in the Peloponnese. While most mainstream media are reporting the death of Costas Simitis as…

7 January, 2025

GREECE

Why I joined the demonstrations spurred by the rail disaster

Because although taking to the streets to express your grief, your anger and your questions may not bring back the young faces you saw in the photos that were published when devastated relatives were seeking for their loved ones, at least in…

22 March, 2023

CYPRUS·GREECE

Evagoras Pallikarides a young Cypriot freedom fighter

This week 65 Years ago the English Queen awarded a belated posthumous medal to a young British soldier killed in Cyprus in 1956. He was just 19 and died when a bomb exploded the news reports said he was undertaking “peacekeeping” duties.…

15 March, 2023

GREECE·WORLD

Sir George William Rendel (British Diplomat). A memorandum detailing atrocities committed during the Greek Genocide by the Turks

Sir George William Rendel (1889-1979) was a British diplomat who wrote a 7-page memorandum detailing atrocities committed during the Greek Genocide. Rendel was educated at Queen’s College, Oxford and in 1913 joined the British Diplomatic Service. He was posted first to Berlin then…

24 January, 2023

GREECE·WORLD

Biden is half right on Eastern Mediterranean arms sales

The Biden administration reportedly will ask Congress to approve a $20 billion sale of F-16s to Turkey , coupled with a separate sale of F-35 fighters to Greece . The White House is half right: Greece should receive the next generation joint…

18 January, 2023

GREECE·WORLD

An Honest Broker No Longer: The United States Between Turkey and Greece

Over the course of 2022, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has maintained a steady drumbeat of provocations targeting Greece. The year began with his foreign ministry issuing a statement threatening to declare Greece’s sovereignty as “debatable” if it continued to “militarize” its…

11 January, 2023

GREECE·WORLD

Greek police find 92 naked migrants sent from Turkey to Greece

Greek police have rescued a group of 92 illegal migrants who were discovered naked, and some with injuries, close to its northern border with Turkey, police say. The migrants, all men, were discovered close to the Evros river that marks the border…

17 October, 2022

GREECE·WORLD

Halt Erdogan’s Aggression: Apply Section 907 to Turkey

Ιn 1992, shortly after the Soviet Union’s collapse, the U.S. Congress passed the Freedom Support Act to support open markets and coordinate assistance for the successor states of the Soviet Union. Against the backdrop of Azerbaijan’s blockade on Armenia, however, Section 907…

3 October, 2022

GREECE·TRAVEL

Lack of rooms in Mykonos sees church converted into studio and rented to tourists (VIDEO)

SOURCE: greekcitytimes.com Another incident of profiteering is unfolding during this year’s tourist season in Mykonos! A church owner decided to turn his Cycladic chapel into a home. As reported by Mykonos Live TV, the great shortage of houses and the rise in…

4 July, 2022

GREECE·TRAVEL

Foreigners flock to Greek islands for wedding vows

Source: in.gr Greek islands chock full of brides and grooms who had put off getting married due to coronavirus, and Santorini tops all. This year is going to be a record year for weddings in Greece, and the Greek islands, starring Santorini,…

27 June, 2022

AUSTRALIA·GREECE·TRAVEL

16 hours from Australia to Greece may become a reality with Qantas

Source: Greekcitytimes Qantas has launched direct flights between Australia and Europe with non-stop routes becoming available between Perth to Rome. The new route will be the only direct flight between Australia and continental Europe offered by any airline and is estimated to…

27 June, 2022

GREECE

Genocide of the Greeks – the systematic ethnic cleansing of the Greek population from its historic homelands by the Turks

The Greek genocide, part of which is known as the Pontic genocide, was the systematic ethnic cleansing of the Christian Ottoman Greek population from its historic homeland in Asia Minor, central Anatolia, Pontus, and the former Russian Caucasus province of Kars Oblast…

20 May, 2022

GREECE·WORLD

Athens under snow – striking images of unusual cold front

IMAGES: Daily Digest Source: The Daily Digest Athens under a blanket of snow January 2022 has offered the world a beautiful image: the Parthenon in Athens covered in snow. Beautiful – yet extremely uncommon. The cold front that has hit Greece and…

27 January, 2022

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GREECE- Page 11

A legacy of weakness, concessions, and economic disasters

Why I joined the demonstrations spurred by the rail disaster

Evagoras Pallikarides a young Cypriot freedom fighter

Sir George William Rendel (British Diplomat). A memorandum detailing atrocities committed during the Greek Genocide by the Turks

Biden is half right on Eastern Mediterranean arms sales

An Honest Broker No Longer: The United States Between Turkey and Greece

Greek police find 92 naked migrants sent from Turkey to Greece

Halt Erdogan’s Aggression: Apply Section 907 to Turkey

Lack of rooms in Mykonos sees church converted into studio and rented to tourists (VIDEO)

Foreigners flock to Greek islands for wedding vows

16 hours from Australia to Greece may become a reality with Qantas

Genocide of the Greeks – the systematic ethnic cleansing of the Greek population from its historic homelands by the Turks

Athens under snow – striking images of unusual cold front

TA NEA – 11 September 2024

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