The tragic story took place in a village near Thessaloniki where the family lives. The 36-year-old father confessed that he had been sexually abusing his 16-year-old daughter for many years. The man who is an Albanian immigrant, was arrested and prosecuted. According to what is so far known, the 36-year-old is unemployed and was often [...]
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Greece Gives Up EU-Western Balkan Summit
Greece will reportedly abandon plans to host a summit meeting of European Union and Western Balkan countries next year when it assumes the six-month rotating Presidency of the EU in Januarky, the newspaper Kathimerini reported. The meeting had been planned for Thessaloniki and in February, 2011 – in the midst of a growing economic crisis [...]
Sketch, Comic and Cartoon Festival in Thessaloniki
The sketch, comic and cartoon festival, under the title The Economic Crisis and its Impact on Greek Society, which is organized by the municipality of Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, will present works of professional and new artists seen in the light of the era we are experiencing. The art of engraving is combined with the art of [...]
CHD Treatment Based on Greek Scientist’s Idea
The CosmoPHOS-nano Project, whose opening meeting was held in Thessaloniki, aims at the creation of an innovative system for the treatment, diagnosis and effectiveness of the treatment of atherosclerotic heart disease (Coronary Heart Disease-CHD) based on nanotechnology. This program started with an idea of Greek cardiologist Panagiotis Trochopoulos and today his research team includes more [...]
Unlucky Bear Of War Misha Dies In Hibernation
Misha the bear, who had been transferred from Belgrade’s Zoo to Arcturos Bear Sanctuary in Nymfaio, Florina, during the war in Yugoslavia in 1999, passed away in hibernation, it was reported. Volunteers noticed that all the bears had woken up except Misha and it’s believed he died about 20 days earlier as there were no [...]
Thessaloniki Μosque Opens, Athens Next
A 111 year-old mosque in Thessaloniki, Greece has opened its doors to Muslim worshippers for the first time in 90 years at at the same time a planned mosque in Athens is moving closer to reality and as Turkey continues to prohibit the opening of the Halki Seminary which was shut down 42 years ago. [...]
Big Students’ Protest Against Athena
There was tension at the students’ demonstration outside the Parliament, in protest of the changes the Athena project will implement to Universities. Students burned the EU flag and the police made use of tear gas. A little after 4 a.m. students holding bats and flags attacked the riot police vans. The police made limited use [...]
Samaras Vows Crackdown on Neo-Nazis
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras vowed to crack down on neo-Nazi groups in a landmark speech marking the 70th anniversary of the first deportations of Thessaloniki’s Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Samaras spoke Sunday at a memorial ceremony at the city’s Monastiriotes Synagogue, the first-ever visit by a sitting prime minister to a synagogue in [...]
Thessaloniki Jews Mark Nazi deportation
In a somber ceremony commemorating a dark day in Greek history, Jewish residents of Thessaloniki gathered on March 16 to note the 70th anniversary of the roundup and deportation of the northern Greek city’s Jews to Nazi extermination camps in World War II. Several hundred people gathered at the city’s Eleftherias (Freedom) Square, where the [...]
Thessaloniki Jews Commemorate Deportation by Nazis
On March 15, 1943, the first train to Auschwitz left Thessaloniki, taking about 2, 800 Jews from the city. In memory of the first Holocaust victims from Thessaloniki, memorial events will take place in the city titled, Never Again. Thessaloniki – Auschwitz. 70 years after the departure of the first train. The memorial events include: [...]
Turkish Women In Thessaloniki Event
Some 220 Turkish women came to Thessaloniki to mark a Woman’s Day celebration on March 8 at the Grand Hotel Palace where they were welcomed by Mayor Yiannis Boutaris and Seçil Doğan, Vice Consul of the Turkish Republic. The event opened with Greek music and traditional dances from the folk dance group of the Cultural [...]
Thessaloniki Gets 2014 World Rowing Games
The port city of Thessaloniki will be organizing and hosting one of the most important and prestigious sports events in October 2014, winning the 2014 World Coastal Rowing Championships. The decision came from the World Rowing Federation (FISA) delivered during the FISA World Congress held from Feb. 14-17 in Copenhagen. Thessaloniki and the Greek Rowing Federation [...]
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Calendar – Exhibits, Concerts, Fun
- Greek-By-Choice Pedro Olalla Honored May 20, 2013
- AHEPA Day Celebration Hosted In Athens May 20, 2013
- Greek Gastronomy Days At Benaki Museum May 20, 2013
- Open Call for Greek Designers May 19, 2013
