Aegean Sea

The Greek ship Aegean Horizon and its 23-man crew, who had been held in detention in Nigeria, were released after Greek officials, including Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos and President Karolos Papoulias apppealed to the Nigerian President. The crew was charged...

The Greek coast guard on Friday detained 90 migrants, among them thirteen children, off the eastern Aegean coast, radio reports said. Officials were alerted to a vessel ferrying 36 illegal immigrants, among them six woman and six children, near the...

A New Norway, but in the Mediterranean is the title of Handelsblatt's article about Greece's hopes of solving the economic crisis by exploiting the mineral wealth of the country. According to the financial newspaper, no one is able to speak...

A Greek and a Turkish coast guard vessel have collided in the Aegean Sea, the Greek foreign ministry said on Wednesday, adding that a complaint would be made to Ankara over the issue. "The Turkish coastguard vessel was sailing dangerously...

Local authorities on the Greek islands of the northeastern Aegean Sea are girding themselves for what is expected to be a growing wave of refugees from war-torn Syria, as measures to reduce the inflow of illegal immigrants via the...

English author Emma J. Russell, who was raised on the Aegean island Paros, wrote a book praising the Greek islands of the Aegean. The breathtaking novel has already attracted attention and is in fact nominated for the Amazon Novel...

The International Festival of the Aegean, which takes place annually on the Island of Syros, Greece, was founded in 2005 by the Greek-American conductor Peter Tiboris. Now entering its eighth season, the Festival attracts world-class musicians, dancers, and actors,...

Cyprus' Minister for Defence in the Council of the European Union, Iliadis Demetris, hosted a French official at the Aegeon (or Aegean) tavern in Nicosia and was so satisfied by the service and the food that he booked the...

Prefects of Northern and Southern Aegean Sea have long tried to attract more tourists to their islands, especially from Turkey. That's the reason why they thought that free visa permissions or at least, a visa without needing many days,...

The research of the Turkish vessel Piri Reis will be continued until March 29, 2012, according to the latest official statement of the Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey. It was stressed that “the Aegean continental...