A year after a powerful earthquake in southern Turkey reduced hundreds of thousands of homes to rubble, Fatma Kirici lives in a tent with her husband and two grown children, afraid to return to the multistory house they fled that somehow still stands.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis paid tribute on Wednesday to the three Greek Navy officers who lost their lives during the Imia crisis, which brought Greece and Turkey to the brink of war 28 years ago.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday, describing the extermination of millions of European Jews by the Nazis as “the darkest chapter of modern history.”
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Saturday observed International Holocaust Remembrance Day, describing the genocide of European Jews during World War II as “an atrocious crime that has left an indelible mark on world history.”
The Greek Foreign Ministry marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday, emphasizing the need to safeguard collective memory as a defense against racism and bigotry.
On the day that a group of far-right military officers seized power in Greece, in the early hours of April 21, 1967, Kathimerini’s then-publisher, Eleni Vlachou, had the journalistic wherewithal to press the button on the tape recorder on her desk.
Fresh out of university and with vague career prospects, I was not a little awed as I crossed the threshold of the historic Greek newspaper’s old headquarters in downtown Athens on my first day at Kathimerini English Edition.
2023 was a landmark year for Kathimerini English Edition as it celebrated the 25th anniversary of its partnership with the New York Times.
With a special event in the port of Piraeus, Kathimerini and The New York Times marked 25 years of a joint venture between the two media groups that share common values.
Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, president of NYT International, addresses an event on Monday in Piraeus celebrating the 25th anniversary of the collaboration between Kathimerini and the New York Times.
This year marks the 15th anniversary of the lethal shooting of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos by a police officer in Athens in December 2008.
Police remanded 47 people for questioning on Wednesday during pre-emptive searches in downtown Athens, amid concerns of violence breaking out at marches commemorating 15 years since the police shooting of teen Alexis Grigoropoulos.
The police are taking stringent measures for the 15th anniversary of the murder of teenager Alexandros Grigoropoulos on Wednesday.
In a somber ceremony on Monday, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki honored the memory of two students who were killed in February’s rail disaster at Tempe in Central Greece by delivering their degrees to their families.
In celebration of St Nicholas, the patron saint of sailors, and the 1912-1913 battles of Elli and Limnos, the Greek navy is opening three of its warships to the public for organized visits, starting Monday.
One hundred and sixty years after the birth of Constantine Cavafy, the influential Greek poet, journalist, and civil servant from Alexandria, the Onassis Foundation is adding a landmark to downtown Athens and a milestone in Cavafy research by setting up the Cavafy Archive on Frynichou Street in Plaka, which opens to the public on Wednesday.
