The Stars of David adorning the balconies along the top of the building catch the first glimmers of the dawn light as worshipers pass through the gates of the historic Yeni Cami, or New Mosque, for morning prayers.
Army sergeant Christos Giannakidis was planning to have a second child when Greece’s debt crisis exploded last decade, straining his finances and erasing hope of extending the family.
New EU fiscal rules are set to bring about greater relief for Greece but will also demand increased efforts, according to Hungarian economist Zsolt Darvas.
Seeking to tackle the rise in cases of bullying, the government has announced a series of preventive measures which include, among others, stricter penalties for students for acts of violence at school and parents’ co-responsibility for their children’s actions.
His political career lasted over half a century; it was full of crises, scandals, even an assassination attempt. But some of the most dramatic passages in the memoirs of Wolfgang Schaeuble concern Greece.
Kostas Karapavlos is standing in the middle of the hall. The 180-year-old wooden floor creaks with every step he takes. He shows us portraits and old family photos on the walls – his great-great-grandfather was Ioannis Kapodistrias, first head of state of independent Greece.
“Today is truly a historic day for Turkey, a rare day of hope for our democracy and a new day for our country’s political scene,” 29-year-old Can Bucak tells Kathimerini English Edition in the aftermath of Sunday’s local elections, his voice slightly cracking but still beaming with enthusiasm.
Newly re-elected Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has emerged as the main challenger to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s reign. But in some ways, he is following in the footsteps of the Turkish leader who ran the city in the 1990s.
Turkey was coming to terms on Monday with the opposition’s unexpected success in local elections which saw it outperform President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party and add to municipalities gained five years ago.
Some 58 million Turkish voters head to the polls this Sunday to choose mayors for nearly 4,000 cities and smaller towns and thousands of city and provincial council members.
Turkey holds municipal elections across 81 provinces on Sunday March 31, with President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party (AKP) aiming to reclaim cities it lost in 2019, including the country’s largest city of Istanbul and the capital Ankara.
Turkey’s spectacular breakthrough as an exporter of durum wheat has spared pasta fans another year of price pain and the country is poised to remain a crucial source of the ingredient prized in Mediterranean cuisine.
Bruised and fractured by Tayyip Erdogan’s victory in 2023 general elections, Turkey’s opposition aims to land a blow in Sunday’s local polls, with the future of its biggest hope, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, tied to the outcome.
The government is expected to survive a no-confidence vote on Thursday, pushed forward by opposition parties, but pressure is growing over the Tempe train crash.
Many of Turkey’s Kurds are set to put aside party loyalty and back Tayyip Erdogan’s major rival in Istanbul on Sunday, knocking the president’s hopes of winning back the city he once ran, according to pollsters.
On Sunday, millions of voters in Turkey head to the polls to elect mayors and administrators in local elections which will gauge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s popularity as his ruling party tries to win back key cities it lost five years ago.
Greek-Russian relations are at the worst possible point. Statements and actions from both sides are indicative of the bad vibes.
It was a networking lunch at a modern taverna in the downtown Athens district of Kolonos, bringing together a building contractor, two buyers, an architect, a journalist and an intermediary, from Lebanon, Syria and Sweden, while also including two Greeks.
Turkey is definitely not one of those countries that excel as standard-bearers when it comes to balanced reporting and media freedoms or media literacy. On the contrary, it usually appears in the international press for its – many – media deficiencies, whether it be censorship cases, propaganda-induced fake news or media ownership concentration issues.
On the afternoon of January 24, 2022 – that is 13 months before the deadly railway disaster at Tempe last year – engine trouble brought the InterCity 54 passenger train to a halt about a kilometer and a half from Livadia station in the middle of a snowstorm.
Year after year, the pressure increases. On the one hand, there is the explosive growth of tourism, followed by an increase in consumption; on the other, there is drought.
The European Union, Canada, Japan and climate-vulnerable Pacific Island states are among 47 countries rallying support for a charge on the international shipping sector’s greenhouse gas emissions, documents reviewed by Reuters showed.
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