At the center of an unexplained attack by unknown vandals was a small church located next to the inactive factory of SEVATH in Xanthi in northeast Greece near the Turkish border. It…
Tag: Thrace
Muslims living in the northeast Greek province of Thrace on the Turkish border call on Ankara to stop making propaganda and claims on their behalf. Christians and Muslims live together harmoniously despite…
The Greek Private Asset Utilization Fund (HRADF) will sell a 67% stake of Alexandroupolis Port in northern Greece near the border with Turkey and Bulgaria. Two American companies are believed to be…
Both Greece and the whole of southeastern and central Europe are leading to a drastic reduction of energy dependence on Turkey with the creation of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal in…
Greek Government Spokesman Stelios Petsas on Monday announced that Health Ministry spokesperson and infectious diseases expert Professor Sotiris Tsiodras together with Deputy Crisis Control Minister Nikos Hardalias and Deputy Health Minister Vassilis Kontozamanis will…
Nordic Monitor has found that the Turkish National Intelligence Organisation (MIT) has been recruiting assets from Greece’s Muslim National Minority to spy on critics of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, especially followers…
The Greek Foreign Ministry has hit back at Turkey’s continuous false allegations that Greece mistreats the Muslim minority in Western Thrace. “It is at least paradoxical, if not funny, that Turkey indicates…
The Greek Armed Forces are on high alert on land, sea and air, and are closely monitoring Turkish movements. They have been on alert since Tuesday noon following Turkey’s decision to illegal…
Mayors of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace are requesting the immediate opening of the Nymfaia border station and the gradual reopening of the other border stations with Bulgaria, after a conference held on…
Just days after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ‘claimed’ that there are no mosques in Athens, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu repeated the same lie without any shame. In an interview yesterday, the…
The President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Wednesday, received Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, where they briefly reviewed the health and economic crisis resulting from the coronavirus pandemic in Greece, and…
In the last few days, Turkish media became incensed over a mosque in Greece that had displayed a Greek flag on a minaret. Akşam Gazetes, even called this “provocative.” Many social media…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has once again been caught out lying to stoke ultra-nationalistic and ultra-religious fanaticism to discredit Greece in a speech he made yesterday. “Hagia Sophia was beautified and…
567 years have passed since the Fall of Constantinople on 29 May 1453, the day which marked the essential dissolution of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Turks. This traditional song of…
The President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou was declared an honorary citizen of Xanthi on Thursday. “The city of Xanthi and the region of Thrace in general was and must continue…
A giant banner was hung in memory of the hundreds of thousands of Pontian Greek genocide victims of Turkish barbarism that was part of the wider Greek Genocide that exterminated hundreds of…
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…
With Turkey failing to asymmetrically invade Greece with illegal immigrants last month across the land border at Thrace, the Turkish leadership are finding new ways to pressurize Greece. As Greece has one…
At a time when Greece is being tested by the coronavirus pandemic, some in Thrace are calling for the Muslim minority to “raise money for their motherland, Turkey.” Questions are now being…
Greek police reported an increase in the curfew violations imposed by the Government to contain the spread of coronavirus in Greece. According to authorities the violations had reached 974 incidents by Saturday…