Gerapetritis: “All of Hellenism Will Again Say the Big ‘No'”
Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis issued a sharp warning to Ankara on Sunday, invoking Greece’s most defiant historical symbol at a memorial event in…
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Mazonakis Memorial Held as 8 Substances Found in His Blood
The 40-day memorial service for Greek singer Giorgos Mazonakis was held Sunday at the Holy Trinity Church in Nikaia, the Athens neighborhood where he grew up…
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“We Will Not Allow Greece Become Like the Streets of Paris”
New Democracy party secretary Konstantinos Kyranakis drew a sharp line this week, vowing that Greece will not follow France and Italy into the street violence…
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Japanese Diplomat Leaves Greece With Cavafy on His Lips
A Japanese diplomat’s farewell to Greece has gone viral for all the right reasons. Takaaki Nemoto, Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Japan in Greece…
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Italy May Force Greece to Hand Back Fagan Fragment
A deal Greece called a blueprint for getting the Parthenon Marbles back is now under legal fire in Italy, and Athens could be forced to return the ancient…
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Athens’ First Skyscraper Dwarfs the Acropolis Limit by Six Times
Greece’s first skyscraper has reached its full 200-metre height on the Athens Riviera, and the debate over what it means for the city’s skyline is far from…
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The 1611 Massacre in Epirus That Wiped Out Entire Greek Communities and Burned Their Churches
In 1611, Ottoman forces captured Dionysios the Philosopher, the Greek Orthodox Bishop of Larissa and Trikala, and flayed him alive. His skin was then stuffed…
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Greece Loses Guilfoyle While Ankara Keeps Barrack
Turkey issued two counter-NAVTEX notices on Friday, challenging Greek and Cypriot authority over waters tied to the Crete-Cyprus undersea cable project, and…
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Ex-CIA Officer Who Hunted Terrorists in Athens Wants to Be US Ambassador to Greece
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou is pitching himself to President Trump as the next U.S. ambassador to Greece, and the pitch comes with a catch: he’d need a…
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Greek MEP Receives Death Threat After Calling Turkey a Terror State
A Turkish account on X called for the assassination of Greek MEP Emmanouil Fragkos last week, writing in English: “This guy should get shot dead in European…
