Greece

Northern Greece embraced the Olympic Flame Sunday that burns for the 2012 London Games on the fourth day of the Torch Relay that will continue Monday towards the Greek-Turkish borders. Starting from the city of Ioannina in the western part...

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...

The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, said on Wednesday that the bloc is “determined” to protect its external borders and the territorial integrity of Greece. Borrell, who was visiting the Kastanies crossing on the Greek-Turkish border,...

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...

Turkey’s state broadcaster TRT Haber said on Wednesday afternoon that the country's land borders with Greece and Bulgaria will be closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Thus Turkey's borders with the European Union will remain closed to the entry and...

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...

At the request of Greece, Bulgaria opened an Evros River dam located on its territory on Monday in order to cause intentional flooding and make it more difficult for migrants amassed at the Greek-Turkish border to cross the river,...

Greek security forces are attempting to stop thousands of refugees and migrants from entering Greece after Turkey's declaration that it will no longer stem the migrant flow out of their country. Since Friday, the number of migrants has surged...

Thousands of refugees and migrants remain behind a wire fence on the Greek-Turkish border in Evros, hoping to cross to the Greek side of the border. The country has been constantly strengthening its border with police and military forces from...

Greek authorities revealed on Friday that Turkey’s "Oruc Reis" research vessel has violated the boundaries of Greece’s continental shelf, and was operating south of the island of Kastellorizo. The Turkish vessel entered Greece’s continental shelf area at 6:40 a.m. and...

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...

German Chancellor Angela Markel and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker pledged to offer assistance for the asylum services and with Frontex at the Greek-Turkish and Greek-Bulgarian borders during a quadrilateral meeting with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Bulgaria's premier...

Two violations over Greek air space by two pairs of Turkish jets were noted on Monday. Lately, violations have escalated along with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's fiery rhetoric encouraging Turkish youth to question the peace Treaty of Lausanne...

  "The rhetoric of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan directly or indirectly undermines the Treaty of Lausanne and the Greek-Turkish relations as well as the EU-Turkey relations," Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said on Tuesday at a ceremony for his declaration...

The European Union will insist on an action plan that includes joint Greek-Turkish patrols in the Aegean in order to tackle the refugee crisis, according to an official EU document. According to a Euro2day.gr report citing an official EU document...