Yannis Boutaris

Outrage has followed the vandalism of a Holocaust memorial in Greece's second city of Thessaloniki. The words "Golden Dawn" -- the name of a Greek far-right party -- were daubed on the base of the sculpture which commemorates the 54,000...

It's not the first time that Yiannis Boutaris, the unconventional mayor of Thessaloniki, has blamed politicians for unresolved issues facing the Greek society. This time he blamed them for the 25-year-old unresolved name dispute with FYROM. Boutaris said that the...

The mayor of Thessaloniki announced that construction for the long awaited Holocaust Museum in the city, will begin in January. Yannis Boutaris said during a meeting of the municipal council on Tuesday, that the museum "will be a project of...

The deliberate absence of mayor Yiannis Boutaris from the officials podium was the main topic of statements in the traditional Oct.26 student parade in Thessaloniki. During a radio interview two weeks ago, the outspoken and very popular mayor had warned...

Yannis Boutaris, the mayor of Thessaloniki sparked controversy with comments he made on Sunday as he publicly claimed to feel ashamed to be Greek. While at a meeting organized by former PASOK ministers Diamantopoulou, Ragousis and Floridis, mayor Boutaris said...

Greek Deputy Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas said that 30,000-40,000 refugees will stay in Greece for a long time. Mouzalas headed a meeting on the migration issue in Thessaloniki. He said that the makeshift migrant camp in Idomeni, on the Greek-FYROM...

The bishop of Thessaloniki, Anthimos, condemned Gay Pride celebrations of the LGBT community, stating that it is “a perversion of human existence.” “Do not give dogs what is holy,” he quoted from the gospel of Matthew, in regards to the...

The Mayor of Thessaloniki Yannis Boutaris will visit Melbourne in November in order to celebrate with the Greek Australian community the 30th anniversary of the sister-city relationship between Melbourne and Thessaloniki, northern Greece. The 72-year-old mayor of Greece's second largest city,...

The Italian government forced by the financial crisis that has hit the country, has decided to shut down the Italian Cultural Institute in Thessaloniki, Greece, after 51 years of operation. Yannis Boutaris the mayor of Thessaloniki described the closure of the...

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...