coup

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 we moved...

Turkey has placed a bounty on former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom. The Turkish-American basketball star has faced serious legal trouble in Turkey since vocalizing criticism of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2013. Turkish authorities are offering ten million Turkish...

Security forces in Germany carried out sweeping raids against an alleged far-right terror group that aimed to overthrow the German government in a violent coup. Twenty-five people have been arrested in raids across Germany, including far-right and ex-military figures who...

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...