The President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou, honoured 28-year-old Greek American Andreas Holevas on his last day as a Presidential Guard. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Holevas obtained a Greek passport…
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The possibility of compulsory military conscription at the age of 18 is under consideration, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said. As he said, there are examples from countries like Cyprus and Israel where…
The first French-made Rafale type aircraft will arrive in Greece in the middle of 2021, explained Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis when answering a relevant question during a press conference at the…
The SK Group and Plasan of Israeli consortium are interested in the tender for the acquisition of the Hellenic Vehicle Industry (ELVO). The acquisition process of ELVO is expected to be completed…
Social media was set alight when Defense News spread a fake report that Turkish drone maker Assuva Savunma Sanayi announced on Tuesday that the Greek Ministry of Defence had decided to buy…
Born and raised in Pennsylvania, 28-year-old Andreas Holevas obtained a Greek passport to serve in the Greek Army and in particular in the Presidential Guard, “like his grandfather.” The expatriate Holevas has…
Greece has expressed its confidence that it can defend itself while also highlighting that all the scheming by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has amounted to nothing. “Erdoğan’s tactics have not yielded…
On this day in 1913 during the 2nd Balkan War, the Greek Army liberated and triumphantly entered the city of Drama in Macedonia, ending 529 years of Foreign (Turkish and Bulgarian) Occupation.…
On Friday, the graduation and swearing-in ceremony of the new second lieutenants took place at the Hellenic Army Academy in Vari, a southeastern suburb of Athens. The swords to the new second lieutenants of…
A Greek Army team will head to the United States to select 350 Bradley IFVs (Armoured Infantry Fighting Vehicles) from the U.S. Army surplus stocks, according to Military Leaks. The armoured vehicles…
Photographs from the DIMARATOS SOCRATES 2020 exercises that took place last Thursday in northern Greece, have been published. The exercises that took place on the northern port city of Alexandroupolis was published…
Turkey accused Greece’s parliament on Tuesday for supposed “baseless and delirious statements” about the Greek Genocide in Pontus. Turkish state-run media Anadolu Agency said Greece’s statements were “under the pretext of marking…
“The booklet of originally sixty print pages in the Greek language, published by the war correspondent Konstantinos Faltaits as early as 1921 makes a very depressing reading, for it comprises episodes which…
Greek-Albanian relations are in the forefront in recent days with the latter wanting to join the European Union, but also because of Albania’s abuse of the Greek minority in the area historically…
It was the early morning hours of May 14, 1920, when the advancing Greek army, entering the city of Komotini, victorious and liberating, were singing. Their first verse: “Dawn dawned and we…
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…
Congratulating his Turkish counterparts on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Grand National Assembly last week, Russian Duma deputy Sergey Markov said that Russia is “proud”…
Greek army and police units trying to stop crowds of illegal migrants from pushing their way in from Turkey, have hit on a new defence against tear gas unleashed on them from…
Ioannina, the largest city of Epirus was incorporated into the Greek state on the 21st of February 1913, after the Battle of Bizani in the Balkan Wars. The city’s formal name, Ioannina,…