dictatorship

Gyaros an arid, and uninhabited Greek island in the northern Cyclades was during the military dictatorship a place of exile and torture. Today, the small island is becoming an oasis of life. "Mediterranean monk seals nurse their young on open beaches...

For seven years between 1967 and 1974 the Greek military junta used a building at Bouboulinas Street, Athens as a prison where thousands were tortured. Among them a Belgian national named Roland Baumann who recently returned to the infamous...

On Thursday, Fahrettin Altun, the communication director of Turkey, slammed the London-based weekly The Economist for creating "cheap propaganda" on the country. The cover of this week's magazine is titled "Turkey's looming dictatorship." The Economist is calling on outsiders to...

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...

A three-day celebration on the anniversary of the 1973 Polytechnic uprising kicked off in Greece on Tuesday an annual event that commemorates the students who rose against the military junta. On Tuesday, the Athens Polytechnic, or the National Technical University...

Thousands of people marched through Athens Wednesday to mark the anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising against the military dictatorship on November 17,1973. More than 5,000 police were deployed to keep order, as violence involving anarchist demonstrators has often marred the annual...

"We should not forget that nothing can be taken for granted and that the defense of Democracy and its institutions is a constant challenge for us all," President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou stated in her message on...

As of November 1973, it had been six and a half years since Greece had been placed under strict military rule. Opponents of the junta which took over in the April 21, 1967 coup had been tortured, jailed, exiled, or put...

The five days between July 20 and July 24, 1974 were the most turbulent, and the most decisive, in modern Greek history. The Turkish invasion to Cyprus, the collapse of the seven-year-long military junta, and the birth of the...

May 1, 2019 marks the forty-third anniversary of Alexandros Panagoulis' death on the first of May in 1976 in Athens. Panagoulis became well-known for his brave struggle against the military dictatorship which ravaged Greece and its society for nearly seven years,...