Greece

Mevlut Cavusoglu, the Turkish Foreign Minister, arrived on Sunday morning in Greece, ahead of a two-day visit that aims to boost the turbulent relations between Ankara and Athens.

A US State Department spokesman told the press late on Monday that the new Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken, spoke with Greek Foreign Minister Nikolaos Dendias today. Secretary Blinken and Foreign Minister Dendias emphasized their commitment to further strengthening U.S.-Greece...

The Greek and Turkish foreign ministers exchanged tweets over the future of their countries' bilateral relations in an unusual case of diplomacy through social media over the weekend. Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu started the surreal exchange by providing unsolicited advice...

Greece and the United States reaffirmed their excellent bilateral relations and mutual desire to further deepen cooperation in a series of areas on Monday, in a meeting of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Greek Foreign Minister Dendias. The areas...

  Greece will do whatever it can to help Lebanon, Greece's Deputy Foreign Minister Kostas Fragogiannis told Greek TV station ANT1 in Beirut on Wednesday. The official was part of a delegation which accompanied a Special Disaster force (EMAK) unit...

The ongoing controversy over scheduled Moslem prayers at the Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia Cathedral, now a museum, ratcheted up on Tuesday when Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu declared that Greece has no right to protect the nearly fifteen-hundred year-old former...

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu wrote a tweet on Tuesday in which he not only called the Muslim minority of Western Thrace ''Turkish,'' but also used a derogatory tone against Greece, its President and its democracy itself. It all began...

The Supreme Administrative Court of Greece has suspended the extradition of Alexander Vinnik, often referred to as "Mr. Bitcoin," pending a review of his new appeal in January of next year. The extradition order had been signed last Friday by...

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias defended his decision on Monday to make a surprise visit to Benghazi to meet the East Libya-based commander Khalifa Haftar, despite a condemnation by Libya's UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA). The official visit violated the...

In a surprising move, Greece's Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias went to Libya on Sunday, to meet with the leadership of the opposing to the Government of Tripoli forces, including Field Marshal Khalifa Belqasim Haftar, the chief of the Libyan...

The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Saturday strongly refuting the claims made by Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu that Greece has shot at boats carrying refugees. ''We categorically reject today's statements by the Turkish Minister of...

Turkey's invasion into Syria is a "big mistake," Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias declared late on Wednesday in an interview with public broadcasting network ERT1. Dendias added that Turkey has repeatedly made such mistakes over the last several years. He stressed that...

A startling public exchange between Nikos Christodoulides and Mevlut Cavusoglu, the respective Foreign Ministers of the Republic of Cyprus and Turkey, took place in front of the press in New York on Monday. The two officials spoke together for more...

US Ambassador in Athens Geoffrey Pyatt and Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister for Expatriate Greeks Antonis Diamataris met on Tuesday to discuss the strategic importance of Greek-US relations. The two men discussed the strong ties between the two nations and issues...

Deepening the strategic collaboration between Athens and Washington was the focus of the first meeting Greek Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Dendias held with his US counterpart Mike Pompeo at the State Department on Wednesday. Dendias invited Pompeo to visit Athens...