greek islands

The tiny Greek islet of Agios Nikolaos is a unique place with a wide beach and crystal, shallow waters at the entrance of the island of Lefkada in the Ionian Sea. It is a place which also provided inspiration for one...

Turkey's leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has targeted the country's main opposition party for its legacy of "giving away" Aegean islands in 1923. In a speech on Saturday, the Turkish president took a swipe at Kemal Kilicdaroglu, head of the secular...

Karpathos -- a remote Greek island famed for preserving its traditions and dialect -- has won a place on Forbes Magazine's list of the best 33 budget destinations for 2018. An army of independent travel journalists, bloggers and writers specialized...

Over half of the refugees coming to the Greek islands of Lesvos and Samos in December were women and children, the UN has said. In a new report for December 2017, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said sea arrivals decreased...

Speculation about Barcelona footballing superstar Lionel Messi buying a Greek island in the Ionian Sea came out of the blue on Wednesday, spreading like a virus on online media. However, the fact there has been no official confirmation by the...

A total of 4,152 refugees and migrants were transferred from the islands to the mainland from November 27 to December 27, according to Migration Ministry's figures issued on Thursday. During the same period, 2,323 new arrivals of refugees and migrants...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, remains very concerned with the situation of refugees and migrants on the Aegean islands, in particular Lesvos, Chios and Samos, but welcomes important efforts to speed up transfers to the mainland over the past...

Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Kos and Leros, the five islands most affected by migratory waves, will maintain their lower VAT regime for another six months, until the end of June 2018, the finance ministry announced on Tuesday. The government had announced...

In an interview with a local newspaper, Turkish opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu attacked president Recep Tayyip Erdogan for choosing to dispute the Lausanne treaty and not the "18 Aegean islands the Greeks have under occupation." This is not the first...

  One of the best things to do while visiting Greece is to jump on a ferry-boat and visit the islands. If you are short of time, however, it can be difficult to spend many hours sailing; which is why...