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For the second time this week, Turkish armed forces sent radio messages to the helicopter carrying Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on his tour of islands in the Aegean. As a Greek military helicopter approached for landing on the islet of Panagia, there was interference from Turkish armed forces which indicated that the Greek aircraft was […]
In a harsh announcement, the Greek Foreign Ministry condemns the Koran reading and holding of prayers in Hagia Sophia, attended by the head of Turkey’s Directorate for Religious Affairs. “Hagia Sophia is a UNESCO world heritage site. The attempt to convert it into a mosque – through reading of the Koran, holding of prayers, and […]
A pair of armed Turkish F-4s entered the Athens Flight Information Region (FIR) at 11.39 a.m. on Wednesday and flew over the Anthropofagoi and Makronisi islets in the eastern Aegean, at an altitude of 10,000 feet, Kathimerini reports. The Turkish jets were reportedly chased off by Greek planes before exiting the Athens FIR at 11.50 […]
The death Constantine Mitsotakis marks the end of an era in the nation’s political history, left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said while describing the late conservative politician as a man that “shaped modern Greece.” “[Mitsotakis] was one of the main protagonists of [Greece’s] modern political history and made a decisive contribution in consolidating democracy […]
Konstantinos Mitsotakis (31 October 1918 − 29 May 2017) was a Greek politician who was Prime Minister of Greece from 1990 to 1993. He graduated in law and economics from the University of Athens. Mitsotakis was born in Halepa village, Chania, Crete, inside an already powerful political family, linked to Eleftherios Venizelos on both sides. […]