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By Leslie Absher Just prior to the 1967 Greek coup, fifty-five years ago, I arrived in Athens with my mother and CIA father. He was a young officer and Greece was his first field assignment. I was a toddler when...

Turkey detained 10 retired admirals, as President Erdogan warned of a new coup, following a letter signed by more than 100 retired admirals.

Secret documents obtained by a research group show that the Turkish military had prepared to force back home eight officers who fled to Greece in the aftermath of the failed 2016 coup in Turkey. The Nordic Research Monitoring Network published...

A spokesman for Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described Greek PM Alexis Tsipras as being "well-intentioned" over the issue of the eight Turkish ex-soldiers seeking asylum in Greece. Ibrahim Kalin, speaking after the first cabinet meeting under Turkey's new executive...

A Greek court has freed far-right lawmaker Konstantinos Barbarousis on bail of €30,000 ($35,000). Barbarousis appeared before a magistrate on Wednesday on charges of treason. The charges stem from an outburst last Friday in parliament when Barbarousis said the Greek military should arrest the president,...

The migrant readmission deal between Ankara and Athens has been suspended, according to reports coming out of Turkey. News agency reports and the pro-government Daily Sabah newspaper carried comments from Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday, saying the apparent...

Turkey's prime minister has hit out at the Greek asylum service for green-lighting the applications of two of the eight former Turkish servicemen wanted by Ankara for trial. However, Binali Yildirim, in a Greek media interview cited by state-run Anadolu...

Eight Turkish ex-servicemen who fled from Turkey after an attempted coup in July 2016 want to leave Greece once they are granted asylum, their lawyers told a news conference on Wednesday. Their legal teams also reiterated that gradually, in the...

Turkey has accused Greece of protecting those who sought to overthrow the Turkish government in July 2016's coup attempt. A Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement on Friday said Thursday's court decision in Athens to release one of the eight...

One of the eight former Turkish servicemen who claimed asylum in Greece after Turkey's July 2016 coup attempt has been released from custody. The Council of State -- Greece's highest administrative court -- ruled on Thursday that the man should...