Greek Minister for Civil Protection, Michalis Chrysochoidis and the head of the EU’s border control force Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, visited the Evros region on Wednesday. The minister informed Leggeri about the situation prevailing on the…
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Illegal migratory flows to the Greek islands is down 83% compared to 2019. Turkey’s escalating aggression against Greece culminates at this stage in the decision to turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque…
Referring to a Frontex report, Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarachi stated that Greece is not currently the main gateway for migration into the European Union, ANT news reported. Based on the…
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias spoke to Ethnos and discussed the Turkish provocations, the position of Greece in the Balkans and trilateral cooperation schemes that have been forged on the basis of common…
Guards at the Greek-Turkish border at Evros have been on high alert, after reports that circulated in both Turkish and Greek media about the movement of illegal immigrants to Greece. However, nothing…
Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis while speaking to SKAI, stated that the extension of the border fence across the Evros River will be completed in a few months time. Greece is reinforcing…
The United States is actively working towards easing mounting tensions between NATO allies Greece and Turkey, US Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Palmer said on Wednesday. During an…
The Armed Forces and the Hellenic Police are on full alert and vigilant after the new barrage of challenges from Turkey against Greece. After Turkey’s Foreign Ministry Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said illegal immigrants…
The mandatory 14-day quarantine for incoming visitors and returning residents, first introduced on March 16, has been extended to the end of May, Greece’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced on Monday. CAA…
A so-called Non-Government Organization that has no website and little information about it, has announced that it is looking for immigrants who illegally entered Greece and were returned to Turkey so they…
Der Spiegel’s “evidence” that a Greek bullet killed migrant grows weaker with new Turkish confession
On March 4 at the peak of Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s attempt to asymmetrically invade Greece with illegal immigrants, Muhammad Gulzar, a Pakistani who had previously lived in Greece and was…
“The Killing of a Migrant at the Greek-Turkish Border.” This was the title of Germany’s Der Spiegel article that had many ‘holes’ in its narrative, despite the insistence by one of its…
The European border protection agency Frontex expects that a number of illegal immigrants will soon be heading towards Greece again from Turkey, according to Germany’s Welt. This emerges from an internal and…
An alarm was sounded at around 22:00 last night at the Evros border crossing between Greece and Turkey, when Greek police and soldiers recorded shootings coming from boats on the river where…
A dangerous incident between Turkish and German border guards occurred at the Greek-Turkish land border. Turkish soldiers targeted German officials and fired at least one shot. It is unclear where the bullet…
The Greek Minister of Defence, Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, in an interview yesterday said that the “alarms” against Turkey remains despite their scale down of aggression against Greece, as they struggle to deal with…
The Civil Aviation Authority on Wednesday announced that flights to and from six countries has been extended until May 15, as part of the measures to halt the spread of the coronavirus…
Last week the Greek Coastguard thought they had a very ‘usual’ day in trying to prevent illegal immigrants embarking from Turkey from reaching the Greek islands. However, one day last week turned…
Citizens’ Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis visited the Greek-Turkish border area of Evros on Monday morning, along with Defence Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos, where they stressed that despite the departure of thousands of illegal immigrants,…
Estonia is ready to send two patrol boats and twenty border guards to Greece to counter the migratory pressure from Turkey, Estonia’s Minister of the Interior Mart Helme announced. Helme’s statement comes…