Greece

The bodies of many unidentified migrants have lain for years in a small cemetery, just a few kilometers from the Turkish border. The migrants' bodies were buried in the cemetery in Sidiro, a small Greek village near the Turkish...

A great number of police officers, along with squads from Greece's anti-terrorist unit, have been deployed in Thessaloniki for Tuesday's football game between PAOK and Turkey's Besiktas team for the Champions League qualifiers. The Istanbul-based team will arrive in the...

Tensions flared up again on Wednesday evening along the Greek-Turkish border at the Evros post of Kastanies. Turkish authorities reportedly threw tear gas while refugees hurled stones and other objects to the Greek side of the border fence beginning at...

Frontex, the Border and Coast Guard Agency of the European Union, has been deployed in full since Friday morning in the Greek region of Evros, next to the Greek-Turkish border, which is also the Union's external border. Hundreds of police...

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu did not rule out the possibility of a future joint appeal of Greece and Turkey to the International Court of Justice of the Hague, in order to solve their maritime disagreements in the region...

A suspected American jihadist has been left stranded for a third day between Greece and Turkey after he was deported by Turkey, then refused entry by Greece. Muhammad Darwis B., reportedly an American of Jordanian dissent, has been physically stranded...

EUROPOL executive director Catherine De Bolle visited Greece's border region of Evros on Thursday. De Bolle wanted to see for herself the situation at the Greek-Turkish border -- which also serves as an external border of the European Union itself. The...

The United States has not taken any position on the recent dispute between Greece and Turkey regarding the issue of maritime borders. Asked about the Turkish warnings that it would not tolerate any extension of Greece's territorial waters, a State...

Three women whose bodies were found on the Greek side of Evros River were stabbed to death, the coroner said in a preliminary findings on Wednesday. The coroner said their death, from stab wounds in the neck, occurred within the...

Police have said they saved 34 migrants who were trapped on the border between Greece and Turkey on Tuesday. According to reports, the 34 people, including seven children, had been on an islet on the Evros River, which forms the...

NATO's leadership has distanced itself from tensions in the Aegean, with its secretary-general telling Turkish media "this is something that has to be addressed between Turkey and Greece". Jens Stoltenberg told Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency that although both Turkey and Greece...

A Greek court has ruled that the young child of a Turkish-Greek couple must remain with her Turkish mother, after a long dispute between the two separated parents. The decision came after the Greek father, Giorgos Tsakiridis, reportedly took the...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg made a call on Thursday for the de-escalation of tension in the Aegean. Asked about a recent incident involving Greek and Turkish patrol boats near the Imia islets, Stoltenberg said that it had dominated his...

Greek daily Kathimerini reports that the British Royal Navy has cancelled a scheduled military exercise in the Aegean in what appears as an effort to steer clear of Greek-Turkish tensions. The exercise was due to take place off the south-eastern...

The Greek-Turkish Youth Orchestra (GTYO), of about 60 young musicians, celebrates its 10th anniversary by touring Greece in September. The orchestra, formed by equal number of Greek and Turkish members, will perform in four concerts in Rhodes, Crete, Athens and...