Evros

The National Human Rights Commission of Greece (NHRC), an independent advisory body to the Greek State on matters pertaining to human rights protection, raised serious concerns on Tuesday about the return of refugees to their home countries. Over what it...

Greek authorities removed the corpses of five wild horses from a canal in the Evros Delta near the border with Turkey on Wednesday. The five animals, a male, two females and two foals, were found floating in the water by...

A search and rescue operation has been launched by the Hellenic Police, to locate a woman and her two children who went missing after their boat capsized in the Evros River during their attempt to reach Greece. The river...

The national-large scale military exercise Parmenion 2018, planned and conducted by the Hellenic National Defense General Staff ended with absolute success. Held throughout the country, Greece's Parmenion attracted the attention of many for its impressive exercises held in the Aegean...

Greece issued an official complaint to the European Commission and the Turkish authorities blaming the Turkish side for deliberate negligence in guarding the borders on Evros river. As a result, the number of migrants crossing the river in an effort...

Turkish rescue teams discovered the bodies of five migrants near the banks of river Evros, where they tried to cross the border into Greece. According to local news site e-evros.gr, they were part of a group of 11 who attempted to...

Greek authorities have released two Turkish servicemen who had crossed the border at Evros earlier on Sunday, after detaining them for almost eight hours. According to the Hellenic Army General Staff, one of the soldiers was lost during trailing migrants...

Two Turkish military personnel have been arrested in the Evros border for allegedly crossing into Greece illegally on Sunday, an Associated Press report says. A Greek army spokesman told AP under the condition of anonymity that the two servicemen were...

Greece's defense minister has claimed the detention of two soldiers in Turkey in a border incident earlier this year was carried out on the direct orders of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Panos Kammenos told Greek radio on Wednesday the two...

More than 10,000 refugees and migrants have crossed into Greece illegally through the Greece-Turkey border at Evros in the first half of 2018, with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) sending extra staff to meet their medical needs. So far, the number...