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The defence ministry has no plans to extend the length of military service or to hire professional military personnel

A total of 995,000 people in 2016 received the citizenship of an EU member state (compared to 841,000 in 2015, and 889,000 in 2014).

An imam alleged to have links with the Fethullah Gulen organisation was arrested in a Greek-flagged yacht in the Turkish coastal town of Marmaris, the state-run wire service Anadolu reported. The report identified the imam as 48-year-ol Murat Elmas, “an imam of the Gulen terrorist network”. Five other individuals were arrested with him, Anadolu reported.

“Now these Greek soldiers are being held and will be tried. The judiciary will do what it should. We cannot intervene in the judiciary,” he added.

Civil servants with university or technical school levels of education and 30 years or more of service will see their pensions cut by 30 percent.

For the fifth time since the capture of their sons on 1 March, the parents of the two officers are today making the journey to the maximum security prison in Edirne to visit with their sons.

The Greek Air Force immediately issued orders for two F-16 fighter jets from the Kastelli Air Force Base, southeast of Heraklion, Crete, to intercept the Turkish reconnaissance UAV

Uber has announced that the UberX service that it provided in Athens since 2015 will be suspended as of next Tuesday, 10 April. The company’s cars have transported 450,000 people in Greece since the service was launched here. Uber drivers in Greece have staged large protest at the transportation ministry (photo above), and have at […]

Omer Celik said that in cases of disputes, it is not possible to always criticise the country which is not an EU member

Several days before the capture of the Greek officers, Turkey unilaterally removed stakes, which served as markers, at the Greek-Turkish borderline

The warlike climate that Defence Minister Panos Kammenos is cultivating, with the toleration of the prime minister’s office, has caused grave concern among citizens

Erdogan’s approach to Moscow, distancing Turkey from the West, constant provocations of Greece and Cyprus, the Syrian front, and the post-coup domestic situation are all part of the new, geopolitical puzzle

The ball is now in the court of European authorities, which will analyse the economic data with the parameters of both the favourable and adverse scenarios regarding the course of the domestic economy

The reversal of the initial decision came after a strong backlash, including a blistering attack by the government on the Central Archaeological Council

In older talks, it was agreed that all of the island’s natural resources, including hydrocarbons deposits, will constitute resources of the post-settlement federal government, to which all revenues from their exploitation will go

The prime minister said Turkey should 'abandon its aggressive rhetoric, and proceed as soon as possible with a good will gesture, to return the two Greek officers who have been incarcerated in Edirne'

The government hopes that enough progress can be achieved in order to allow it to table a settlement agreement in parliament in the foreseeable future

It was former German finance minister Wofganfg Schaeuble who insisted on deferring debt relief until the end of the programme, so as to keep up the pressure on the Greek side to implement reforms, and then to offer it only if necessary.

It is known that the IMF is pressuring to lower the tax-free ceiling as of 2019, instead of the initially planned 2020, which will saddle thousands of taxpayers with an extra 650 euros in taxes annually

Of the 1,968 refugees and migrants, 1,369 passed through Lesvos, 541 arrived in Samos, and just 58 in Chios.