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Greek state-run TV head: Tsipras does not try to manipulate his public image

Fri Mar 04 17:32:06 EET 2016 | HASAN HACI

Manolis Papanikitas, the director of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), is a person who… knows a lot, to remember the legendary movie by Alfred Hit...

Germany calls on EU to help Greece, urges Athens to protect border

Wed Mar 02 17:39:18 EET 2016 | REUTERS

A spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday that EU states should not leave Greece alone to deal with an influx of migrants and refugees, but ...

EU returns 150 migrants to Turkey as part of migration deal

Wed Mar 02 15:06:42 EET 2016 | TODAY'S ZAMAN WITH WIRES

The European Union has begun to return to Turkey migrants who crossed into EU territory from that country -- a step that is part of a deal reached last year -- in a...

Brussels, Berlin want Turkey to help reduce migrant flows

Tue Mar 01 19:14:03 EET 2016 | REUTERS

The European Union is proposing increased humanitarian aid for Greece, where more than 20,000 refugees and migrants are stuck after borders were tightened along the...

Up to 10,000 migrants stuck on Greek-Macedonia border

Tue Mar 01 18:40:16 EET 2016 | AP

On foot or by taxi, hundreds of exhausted refugee families trying to reach Western Europe flocked on Tuesday to a burgeoning tent city on Greece's border with M...

Deputy PM says Turkey seeks to open TİKA office in Greece

Tue Mar 01 17:54:11 EET 2016 | TODAY'S ZAMAN

Deputy Prime Minister Yalçın Akdoğan has said that Turkey has been in discussion with Greek authorities to open a Turkish Cooperation and Development Agency ...

Migrant tension boils over at Greece-Macedonia border

Mon Feb 29 17:16:38 EET 2016 | AP

Macedonian police fired tear gas and stun grenades on Monday as several hundred Iraqi and Syrian refugees, frustrated at days of delays in crossing the Greek-Macedo...

Turkey raises anti-smuggling steps but faces uphill struggle

Sun Feb 28 17:52:09 EET 2016 | AP

Turkey all but turned a blind eye last year as more than 850,000 people, most of them Syrians, slipped into Greece from Turkey on smugglers' boats. Now it's...

Migrant smugglers likely to revive a route from Egypt, concerns EU

Sun Feb 28 17:44:36 EET 2016 | REUTERS

The European Union fears Mediterranean migrant smuggling gangs are reviving a route from Egypt, officials told Reuters, putting thousands of people to sea in recent...

Can a government decide which TV channels are broadcast?

Fri Feb 26 16:30:50 EET 2016 | THOMAS SIDERIS

In Greece, in the middle of yet another evaluation of the financial rescue program set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Commission (EC) and th...

Greece seeks to curb migrant flow, trapped left to own fate

Fri Feb 26 14:23:01 EET 2016 | REUTERS

Greece moved to slow the flow of migrants from its islands to the mainland on Friday as hundreds of refugees left reception centers with nowhere to go as countries ...

NATO overcomes Greek-Turkish tensions to agree to Aegean mission

Thu Feb 25 12:20:51 EET 2016 | REUTERS WITH TODAY'S ZAMAN

NATO allies have agreed to a plan for their ships in the Aegean Sea to help Turkey and Greece counter criminal networks smuggling refugees into Europe, NATO's c...

Migrant arrivals to Europe this year top 110,000, up sharply from 2015

Tue Feb 23 14:40:22 EET 2016 | REUTERS

The number of migrants and refugees arriving in Italy and Greece since the start of the year has risen sharply compared to the same period 2015 and hundreds are str...

EU states should voluntarily accept more refugees from Turkey and Greece, report says

Mon Feb 22 19:26:38 EET 2016 | TODAY'S ZAMAN

All European Union member states should be called upon to voluntarily accept Syrian refugees both from Turkey and Greece in order to solve the refugee crisis the wh...

Greece braces for influx of stranded migrants

Mon Feb 22 19:01:11 EET 2016 | AP

The Greek government warned on Monday it expected a growing number of stranded migrants and asylum seekers after neighbor Macedonia further restricted border access...

Greek court to consider Öcalan's demand for damages against Athens

Mon Feb 22 14:57:55 EET 2016 | TODAY'S ZAMAN

A Greek court will hear a lawsuit claiming damages filed by the jailed leader of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, against the...

Wary on Turkey, EU prepares for refugee crisis in Greece

Thu Feb 18 22:13:03 EET 2016 | REUTERS

The European Union hopes Turkey will prevent as many migrants reaching Greece as last year but is readying "contingency" plans to shelter large numbers wh...

EU leaders to discuss Turkey, ‘Plan B’ at migration dinner

Thu Feb 18 17:52:27 EET 2016 | REUTERS

European Union leaders pondering the migration crisis in Brussels on Thursday will discuss whether a German-backed strategy for Turkey to curb the flow was enough o...

Hundreds of trucks stranded on Greek-Bulgarian border

Wed Feb 17 19:01:37 EET 2016 | AP

Hundreds of trucks and cars were stranded at two Greek-Bulgarian border crossings Wednesday, after a blockade by Greek farmers was met with a retaliatory blockade b...

Greece presents diplomatic note to Turkey over Tsipras plane crisis

Wed Feb 17 17:20:03 EET 2016 | TODAY'S ZAMAN

The plane on which Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras traveled to Iran on Feb. 7 was reportedly not allowed to fly through Turkish airspace, prompting Greece to se...

EU's Tusk says excluding Greece from Schengen won't solve migrant crisis

Tue Feb 16 19:45:00 EET 2016 | REUTERS

Excluding Greece from the open-border Schengen area will not solve the migrant crisis that is testing Europe's cohesion to its limits, EU Council President Dona...

Unknown dead fill Lesbos cemetery for refugees drowned at Sea

Sun Feb 14 21:06:40 EET 2016 | REUTERS

She drowned trying to reach Europe, but her headless body was never identified. Her tombstone will bear no name.

Like others buried beside her in...

Greek police arrest 3 Iraqi Kurds trying to move guns, ammunition into Turkey

Sun Feb 14 12:43:02 EET 2016 | REUTERS

Greek authorities arrested three Iraqi Kurds in two separate operations, on suspicion they were trying to move a large number of guns and ammunition into Turkey, po...

CHP deputy asks about 16 islands seized by Greece

Fri Feb 12 19:29:26 EET 2016 | TODAY'S ZAMAN

In a parliamentary question on Friday, a main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy has demanded to know what Turkey will do about 16 islands in the...

EU poised to restrict passport-free travel in Schengen area

Fri Feb 12 17:20:41 EET 2016 | AP

European Union countries are poised to restrict passport-free travel by invoking an emergency rule to impose controls at several borders for two more years because ...

German official: Turkey, Greece seek NATO mission in Aegean

Thu Feb 11 14:35:10 EET 2016 | TODAY'S ZAMAN WITH WIRES

Turkey and Greece have agreed to ask for a NATO mission to monitor refugee flows in the Aegean Sea and combat people smugglers, a senior German government official ...

NATO ships ordered into Aegean Sea to curb migrant smuggling

Thu Feb 11 14:14:58 EET 2016 | REUTERS

NATO's European commander on Thursday ordered three warships to move immediately to the Aegean Sea to help end the deadly smuggling of migrants between Turkey a...

Migrant arrivals to Greece's Lesbos rise after days of bad weather

Tue Feb 09 18:06:43 EET 2016 | REUTERS

They waved, cheered and let out sighs of relief as their rubber boat, packed with dozens of mainly Syrian and Afghan refugees, approached the Greek coast guard ship...

Immediate implementation of EU-Turkey agreement on refugees is mutually beneficial

Tue Feb 09 16:28:26 EET 2016 | DIMITRIS PAPADIMOULIS

It has been a long discussion on whether Turkey is complying with its obligation to control refugee flows towards Greece and the EU, or whether the European Commiss...

Greece calls for agreement to stop migrants in Turkish waters

Tue Feb 09 00:25:16 EET 2016 | AP

Greece's defense minister has said he wants an agreement with neighboring Turkey that would allow the European Union's Frontex border agency to stop and tur...

27 migrants drown as boat capsizes near Turkey, coast guard says

Mon Feb 08 15:48:05 EET 2016 | REUTERS

Twenty-seven migrants, 11 of them children, drowned off Turkey's Aegean coast as they tried to reach a Greek island, the Turkish coast guard said.
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France says Turkey must fight trafficking groups

Sat Feb 06 00:33:59 EET 2016 | AP

The French interior minister says Turkey must reinforce its fight against trafficking networks who "are at the root of the tragedies" suffered by migrants...

40,000 protest pension reform as general strike grips Greece

Thu Feb 04 15:33:02 EET 2016 | AP

Sporadic clashes broke out in central Athens Thursday as tens of thousands marched to the Greek Parliament during a general strike called to protest planned pension...

IOM: More than 360 migrants drowned in January

Tue Feb 02 17:45:39 EET 2016 | REUTERS WITH TODAYSZAMAN.COM

There were more than 360 deaths among migrants in the waters off Greece, Turkey and Italy during January, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on...

Payback time in Schengen land

Mon Feb 01 14:34:06 EET 2016 | HANS-HELMUT KOTZ

The long-held dream of a borderless Europe, which became reality in the mid-1990s, is fading fast. Italy is blocking a European Union decision to bribe Turkey to ke...

Champagne, citing fraud in Turkey and Greece, slams UEFA over corruption

Thu Jan 28 12:54:25 EET 2016 | AP WITH TODAYSZAMAN.COM

FIFA presidential candidate Jerome Champagne, referring to a 2011 match-fixing scandal in Turkey and 2015 bribery allegations in Greece, has criticized how corrupti...

24 migrants die in boat sinking off Greek island

Thu Jan 28 12:39:41 EET 2016 | REUTERS

Twenty-four migrants drowned when their boat sank off a Greek island close to Turkey, the Greek coastguard said, as people continue to risk the crossing to Europe d...

EU gives Greece warning to fix border 'neglect'

Wed Jan 27 19:40:41 EET 2016 | REUTERS

The EU executive concluded on Wednesday that Greece could face more border controls with other states of the free-travel Schengen zone in May if it does not fix &qu...;

Greece plans fast deportations to Turkey

Wed Jan 27 17:55:55 EET 2016 | AP

Greece's migration minister says his country is seeking European Union backing for the swift deportation of migrants not considered eligible for asylum from Gre...

Despite Turkish deal, over 40,000 have reached Greece this year

Tue Jan 26 18:29:29 EET 2016 | REUTERS

The European Union edged closer on Monday to accepting that its Schengen open-borders area may be suspended for up to two years if it fails in the next few weeks to...

Balkans at the beginning of 2016

Tue Jan 26 17:35:31 EET 2016 | HAJRUDIN SOMUN

The old white and cold winter finally settled across much of the Balkan Peninsula in January after the mild and foggy final months of 2015 that may have caused leth...

Greece threatened with Schengen expulsion over migration crisis

Mon Jan 25 13:51:47 EET 2016 | REUTERS

European Union interior ministers on Monday urged Greece to do more to control the influx of migrants, some threatening to exclude it from the continent's prized pa...

Opposition: Why is Ankara silent over Greek violation of Turkish waters?

Sun Jan 24 17:17:42 EET 2016 | TODAY'S ZAMAN

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Aytun Çıray has brought the issue of Greek boats' “systematic” incursion into Turk...

Activists to Greece: Let migrants cross border

Sun Jan 24 16:48:53 EET 2016 | AP WITH TODAY'S ZAMAN

Demonstrators have gathered for a second day near Greece's border with Turkey, calling on the government to grant safe passage to refugees at the frontier by ea...

10 migrants drown after boat sinks off Turkish coast

Thu Jan 21 17:56:23 EET 2016 | TODAY'S ZAMAN

At least 10 people have drowned after a boat carrying migrants to Greece sank off Turkey's western coast, the Turkish media reported on Thursday.
...

Crystal Cruises cancels stops in Turkey over security issues

Sat Jan 16 11:58:17 EET 2016 | AP

Crystal Cruises announced on Friday that it was cancelling stops in Turkey for two upcoming voyages.

The company said in a statement that it was ...

Greece's Tsipras to meet Davutoğlu in İzmir in February

Mon Jan 11 19:14:56 EET 2016 | TODAY'S ZAMAN

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is to meet with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu in Turkey's western İzmir province in early February, while a second meeting ...

EU should erect new Greek frontier to stop migrants, Hungarian PM says

Fri Jan 08 11:50:18 EET 2016 | REUTERS

The European Union should establish a new frontier on the northern border of Greece, because an agreement with Turkey will not be enough to stop hundreds of thousan...

Greece, Arab-Turkish fund sign 400 mln euro deal on luxury resort - RTRS

Sun Jan 03 19:48:18 EET 2016 | REUTERS

Greece's privatization agency said on Sunday it signed a 400 million euro ($434.3 million) deal with Jermyn Street Real Estate Fund to sell Astir Palace, a luxu...

Responding to Europe's political polarization

Fri Jan 01 19:00:45 EET 2016 | JEAN PISANI-FERRY

In Europe, 2015 began with the far-left Syriza party's election victory in Greece.

It ended with another three elections that attested to in...

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Greek state-run TV head: Tsipras does not try to manipulate his public image

Germany calls on EU to help Greece, urges Athens to protect border

EU returns 150 migrants to Turkey as part of migration deal

Brussels, Berlin want Turkey to help reduce migrant flows

Up to 10,000 migrants stuck on Greek-Macedonia border

Deputy PM says Turkey seeks to open TİKA office in Greece

Migrant tension boils over at Greece-Macedonia border

Turkey raises anti-smuggling steps but faces uphill struggle

Migrant smugglers likely to revive a route from Egypt, concerns EU

Can a government decide which TV channels are broadcast?

Greece seeks to curb migrant flow, trapped left to own fate

NATO overcomes Greek-Turkish tensions to agree to Aegean mission

Migrant arrivals to Europe this year top 110,000, up sharply from 2015

EU states should voluntarily accept more refugees from Turkey and Greece, report says

Greece braces for influx of stranded migrants

Greek court to consider Öcalan's demand for damages against Athens

Wary on Turkey, EU prepares for refugee crisis in Greece

EU leaders to discuss Turkey, ‘Plan B’ at migration dinner

Hundreds of trucks stranded on Greek-Bulgarian border

Greece presents diplomatic note to Turkey over Tsipras plane crisis

EU's Tusk says excluding Greece from Schengen won't solve migrant crisis

Unknown dead fill Lesbos cemetery for refugees drowned at Sea

Greek police arrest 3 Iraqi Kurds trying to move guns, ammunition into Turkey

CHP deputy asks about 16 islands seized by Greece

EU poised to restrict passport-free travel in Schengen area

German official: Turkey, Greece seek NATO mission in Aegean

NATO ships ordered into Aegean Sea to curb migrant smuggling

Migrant arrivals to Greece's Lesbos rise after days of bad weather

Immediate implementation of EU-Turkey agreement on refugees is mutually beneficial

Greece calls for agreement to stop migrants in Turkish waters

27 migrants drown as boat capsizes near Turkey, coast guard says

France says Turkey must fight trafficking groups

40,000 protest pension reform as general strike grips Greece

IOM: More than 360 migrants drowned in January

Payback time in Schengen land

Champagne, citing fraud in Turkey and Greece, slams UEFA over corruption

24 migrants die in boat sinking off Greek island

EU gives Greece warning to fix border 'neglect'

Greece plans fast deportations to Turkey

Despite Turkish deal, over 40,000 have reached Greece this year

Balkans at the beginning of 2016

Greece threatened with Schengen expulsion over migration crisis

Opposition: Why is Ankara silent over Greek violation of Turkish waters?

Activists to Greece: Let migrants cross border

10 migrants drown after boat sinks off Turkish coast

Crystal Cruises cancels stops in Turkey over security issues

Greece's Tsipras to meet Davutoğlu in İzmir in February

EU should erect new Greek frontier to stop migrants, Hungarian PM says

Greece, Arab-Turkish fund sign 400 mln euro deal on luxury resort - RTRS

Responding to Europe's political polarization