Greece

Lawyers acting on behalf of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan filed a criminal complaint against a Greek newspaper on Monday which recently ran a headline using offensive language about the Turkish leader. Turkey's official Anadolu News Agency reports that the...

Two of Great Britain's most prominent newspapers, the Sunday Times and the Guardian, printed opinion and editorial articles respectively over the weekend in which they sided with Greece over the repatriation of its priceless Parthenon sculptures. In a strong show...

A group of anarchists vandalized the Australian consulate in Thessaloniki on Thursday evening by throwing red and black paint on walls at the premises. A different group also vandalized the offices of two Greek newspapers in Athens at nearly...

A story on the Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak's front page on Tuesday claimed that a recent decision by the Turkish Council of State could be used to convert the famous Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque. The decision of the...

Greece's historic ''ETHNOS'' newspaper announced to the public on Monday that it will suspend publication of its weekday edition beginning on July 31, 2019. The newspaper announced its ownership's decision to suspend the daily edition of the paper in a laconic...

A group of anarchists stormed the offices of the "Athens Voice" newspaper in the Greek capital on Thursday and caused extensive damage. Photographs and video footage shared by the paper show destroyed furniture, computers and other office equipment. The assailants...

The British newspaper The Telegraph revealed on Sunday that a Greek urban renewal firm called ''Anaplasis'' plans to uncover Athens' ancient river of Ilissos. Back in October of 2018, a part of the Athenian tram line was closed off because the...

A new newspaper called Migratory Birds is giving migrants around the world a voice, thanks to fifteen Afghan girls living in Greece. It was created by refugees for refugees, and it tells their own, sometimes unimaginable, stories of migration,...

One of the most popular newspapers in Britain, the Guardian, featured Athens in one of its travel editions this week. The British paper created a list of must-see places in the Greek capital. Among them was the Acropolis Museum with...

Karpathos was the center of the attention for the German Press this summer as it was featured in many of the main newspapers of Berlin. The tradition and authenticity of the island combined with its amazing flora and fauna were...

The editor of Turkey's biggest English-language newspaper, the centrist Hurriyet Daily News, has said Greece is "not high up the agenda" for Ankara which is embroiled in conflicts in Syria and Iraq. Murat Yetkin was speaking to the Athens-Macedonian News...

Greek newspapers' sales fell 19.6 percent to 57,614,541 in 2017, from 71,641,595 in 2016, after suffering a 15.9 percent decline in the previous year, Hellenic Statistical Authority said on Friday. The statistics service, in a report, said that religious newspapers...

Cyprus has expressed its concern over freedom of the press in the areas under Turkish military occupation, following the ransacking of the offices of a newspaper critical of Turkey’s president. In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its...

The newspaper kiosk - the "periptero" (περίπτερο) in Greek - is as Greek as the souvlaki or Acropolis, or bureaucracy. Yet, the yellow kiosk typically surrounded by everything from newspapers and magazines to toys and cookies, will sooner or...

Dimera Company, owned by prominent businessman Ivan Savvidis, bought three Greek newspapers at an auction held at an Athens court. The Greek-Russian businessman, who among others owns football club PAOK of Thessaloniki, bought "Imerisia" for 580,000 euros and the two...