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Greece will provide short-term visas to Turkish nationals wishing to visit Greek islands again this year, the Foreign Ministry has confirmed. A ministry statement said the European Commission agreed to extend the system into 2018, so that Turkish tourists and...

Greece has been named as one of the top holiday destinations for Turkish tourists in 2017. A record breaking 739,000 Turks have visited Greece in the first nine months of 2017; a number significantly higher than the equivalent of 2016,...

The European Commission on Tuesday extended for a year a pilot program allowing Turkish visitors to get a short-term visa upon arrival at the Greek islands of the eastern Aegean, in an attempt to help boost local tourism which has...

The carnival of Xanthi is expected to attract over 5,000 Turkish tourists who are to visit the region on the last weekend of February. Many tourists from around Greece and the Balkans flock to Xanthi during this period for the festivities. "In...

Tourism bodies and municipal authorities in the northern Aegean reacted angrily to a letter by Alternate Foreign Minister George Katrougalos informing them that the European Commission rejected the extension of a visa facilitation pilot program that allowed Turkish nationals...

Hundreds of Turkish tourists remained trapped for hours at passport control on Chios island after a breakdown of the computer system. It was after the intervention of deputy regional governor Stamatis Karmantzis and Citizen Protection Alternate Minister Nikos Toskas that...

Despite an ongoing "search and rescue" operation that continued through Saturday, Greek authorities have been unable to find any trace of the 12 Turkish tourists that called the European emergency number '112' on Friday to ask for help. An initial...

Hundreds of Turkish tourists are going to celebrate the end of this year’s Ramadan in Thessaloniki and Halkidiki. The tourists from Turkey will visit Northern Greece by car, bus and air. Ramadan celebration ended on August 7 followed by...

According to e turbonews, Turkish tourists are flooding the Greek islands traveling by cruise ships, since Greece this year is one of the countries with the lowest prices due to the crisis. Some 50,000 tourists from Turkey are expected to...

Prefects of Northern and Southern Aegean Sea have long tried to attract more tourists to their islands, especially from Turkey. That's the reason why they thought that free visa permissions or at least, a visa without needing many days,...

Thousands of Turkish tourists, taking advantage of the holiday of Bayram, are arriving on the Greek islands these past few days. Although Bayram falls on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the Erdogan government has decided to declare Monday and Friday holidays...

Mayor of Thessaloniki, Yiannis Mpoutaris stated after the meeting of the Turkish Airlines' presentation that 30,000 tourists from Turkey visited Thessaloniki in 2011. Mpoutaris stated, "The beginning of flights from Constantinople to Thessaloniki via Turkish Airlines contribute to the improvement...

In another shocking move by Turkey and the Turkish-backed regime in occupied northern Cyprus, the street in the occupied town of Varosha which had been named after American President John F. Kennedy has now been renamed Semih Sancar Avenue. Coming...

In a Wednesday television interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke at length about Turkey's continued aggression in the Eastern Mediterranean, declaring that it must stop its continued provocations before any talks can take place...

Greek Cypriots will be kept out of the Varosha process, the self-named Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus' Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Kudret Ozersay said on Sunday, according to the Daily Sabah. Ozersay further stated that, after 45 years...