Komotini

    Police in Greece have launched an investigation into three Greek nationals for allegedly insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, local media reports claimed Wednesday. The three suspects had allegedly put up posters bearing the Turkish leader's image and reading 'Not...

Heavy rainfalls in the Rodopi prefecture on Sunday have caused serious problems as some areas have been flooded. So far fire departments across the region have pumped water from 32 homes and rescued 17 people whose homes had been flooded. According...

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's highly controversial visit to the Thrace Muslim community, was marked by enthusiastic crowds and a few protests by the local community. Erdogan visited the Muslim community in Komotini; a town in northern Greece, which once belonged...

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Hakan Cavusoglu said he expects the Muslim community in Western Thrace to continue its existence in Greece as equal citizens. The deputy Turkish premier said he brings Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's greetings; Erdogan will be...

ICGB, the project company developing the gas interconnection Greece-Bulgaria, has said it expects to receive a building permit for the section of the pipeline on Greek territory no earlier than 2018. The first step in the process of obtaining a...

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim visited the Komotini Mosque on Monday addressing the Muslim population of the area as being Turks. The Turkish PM visited Thrace after he had official meetings with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and President of...

A Greek court on Friday, convicted two men who are members of the terrorist group Islamic State, and sentenced them to 15 years imprisonment. A Komotini court in northern Greece ruled that the two men are guilty as members of...

A group of people with concealed faces threw paint at the Turkish consulate in Komotini on Sunday, shouting slogans in favor of the DHKP / C, the far-left Turkish organization that Ankara and the U.S. have branded as terrorists. According...

A 15-year-old Roma boy on Monday was arrested by Greek police and confessed to the killing of a six-year-old Roma boy who had been missing since Sunday in Komotini, in northeastern Greece. Six-year-old Mehmetali Sezal had been reported missing on...

The coexistence of Christians and Muslims in Thrace has been and will "always remain productive," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in Komotini on Friday. The Greek PM was addressing the Music High School - Lyceum of Komotini, which he visited along...