Greece

The island of Lesvos, currently home to almost 10,000 asylum-seekers, will mark World Refugee Day on Wednesday, June 20 with a series of three concerts by the refugee children's orchestra "Connect By Music". With the participation of youngsters currently living...

The culmination of the refugee crisis in the summer of 2015 has left its mark on Greece, as tens of thousands asylum seekers seem very likely to stay in the country indefinitely, if not permanently. Since 2015, 850,000 people arrived...

Art and photo exhibitions, a chess tournament and a film festival were among events held this week on the Greek islands of Leros, Lesvos and Kos and in Athens to mark World Refugee Day, Monday June 20. The main event...

The Refugee Crisis Management Coordination Body's data shows that there are 57,042 refugees in Greece at the moment. Of these, 5,501 refugees are staying at UNHCR-created settlements, whereas 5,759 are staying at non-organized facilities. Another 1,500 people are scattered. The...

Every Friday evening, hundreds of thousands of Greeks are glued to their TV sets watching the latest episode of "Fos sto Tounel," or "Light in the Tunnel," by investigative journalist Angeliki Nikolouli. Nikolouli has earned a reputation as a hard...

Greece's iconic grandmother, or "yiayia," Efstratia Mavrapidou, who took care of refugees on the Greek island of Lesvos years ago, passed away at the age on 96 on Tuesday. The grandmother was beloved not only on Lesvos but across Greece,...

A young Palestinian refugee on the Greek island of Leros has set up a page called “Learn Greek” on social media to teach the language.

Greek authorities are accused of using harsh tactics called "pushback" to deter refugees from entering Greece by sea.

Turkey continued its seemingly never-ending string of provocations in the Eastern Mediterranean by announcing on Tuesday -- along with the government of the self-declared "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" -- the reopening of the seaside town of Varosha, which...

Moria, once home to over 12,000 refugees, was completely destroyed by fires  early Wednesday morning. Only meant to house around 2,800 migrants, Moria is notorious for its overcrowded, and some argue unsafe, conditions. Shocking scenes of migrants, including unaccompanied minors,...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he has reached an agreement with the International Olympic Committee, President Thomas Bach, to postpone the Olympics for about one year. One in five people around the globe are now under lockdown, ordered or...

Thousands of refugees and migrants remain behind a wire fence on the Greek-Turkish border in Evros, hoping to cross to the Greek side of the border. The country has been constantly strengthening its border with police and military forces from...

"What did we do yesterday? We opened the doors," Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in Istanbul on Saturday, in his first public speech following the death of 33 Turkish soldiers in northern Syria. "We will not close those doors....

The act of ten young women, ridiculing the traditional student parade on OXI Day, has caused an uproar in Greece's political world and Greek society in general, with a "war" raging in social media over the issue. The ten women, headed...

The Greek Non-Governmental Organization called "METAdrasi" won two million dollars in a prize awarded by the Conrad Hilton Foundation on Monday. This represents the largest monetary amount of any humanitarian prize in the entire world. "METAdrasi – Action for Migration and Development"...