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N17 suspect confesses Kondylis admits involvement in Turk diplomat’s murder, embassy attack The confession by suspected November 17 member Sotiris Kondylis yesterday, one day after his arrest in Athens, brought to an end the first phase of the police investigation. Almost all of the terrorist group's operational arm is in custody, with the exception of senior operative Dimitris Koufodinas, who is still at large.

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Korydallos conditions are ‘legal’

A public prosecutor visited the 13 suspected members of November 17 in pre-trial detention in Korydallos Prison yesterday to investigate a complaint by the group's alleged leader.

EU will not let up on Olympic

The European Commission has requested additional information from Athens within the scope of its investigation into allegations of illegal Greek state aid to the chronically ailing Olympic Airways (OA) national carrier.

Gesture over fires in Cyprus

A string of fires that have ravaged parched forests and farmland across the heatwave-afflicted Republic of Cyprus prompted a rare offer of assistance yesterday across the island's communal divide.

Greek concern over museum’s lost head

Not missing the opportunity to score points over the custodians of the Elgin Collection of Parthenon Marbles, Culture Minister Evangelos Venizelos yesterday sought explanations from the British Museum regarding the theft, this week, of a Greek artifact from its collections.

IN BRIEF

Clerides, Denktash no closer to compromise as fifth round ends : Cypriot President Glafcos Clerides and Turkish-Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash...

Restaurants and cafeterias top list of consumer complaints : Complaints about profiteering top the list of consume...

Fourth suspect held, two more sought Police on the island of Crete yesterday caught a fourth man...

Still dangerous? Turkey still considers Greece a prime threat to its national security...

Taxi strike Attica taxi drivers yesterday afternoon staged a four-hour...

Omonia Ongoing works to upgrade Omonia Station mean that passengers...

Group drugs The six members of the Greek rock band Ypogeia Revmata...

Guard held A guard at a US media-monitoring station in Nicosia...


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Athens empties for the holidays
EDITORIAL

Turkey’s defense The Turkish regime has traditionally been pervaded by a fear of encirclement, a fear that was partly real, and partly an excuse to preserve and legitimize the privileged position enjoyed by the armed forces and to justify its massive armaments programs. Within that perception of threats on the country's entire perimeter, the Turkish generals had worked out the doctrine of «two and a half wars.»

COMMENTARY

From Savvas to the ‘whole’ The dust is beginning to settle around the November 17 case. Of course, numerous questions continue to arise, but several things are now certain, thus facilitating replies to most of these questions. First of all there are the facts, which are beyond question. The police now know the conditions in which the organization was founded and have arrested nearly all its operatives.

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