Komotini

Greece will decide on Aug. 19 whether to open a new border crossing point on the Bulgarian-Greek border known as Makaza which connects the cities of Komotini and Alexandroupoli in Thrace, Greece, with Haskovo and Kardzhali in Bulgaria. The Mazaka...

Today the Bulgarian Council of Ministers approved the launch of the opening of the Makaza border checkpoint on the Bulgarian-Greek border, which links the Bulgarian town Kardzhali to Komotini. According to the Bulgarian press, which gave wide publicity to the...

A group of 40 anti-authoritarians was outside the Turkish Consulate in Komotini, Greece ​​on the afternoon of June 7, wearing helmets and shouting slogans, expressing their sympathy to the Turkey demonstrators. The anti-authoritarians suddenly appeared outside the Turkish Consulate, attempting...

Mind Games, an international educational seminar on inter-religious dialogue, mass media and peaceful conflict resolution is taking place in the Greek town of Komotini from April 12-20. It is funded by the European Commission in the framework of its program...

Yannis Gerekos, a student from Komotini in northeast Greece, said he was heavily beaten because he refused to pay for not being given a receipt, following the Ministry of Development regulation that allows for customers in Greece not to...

Police in northeastern Greece say they have intervened to try to end a revolt at a detention centre for illegal immigrants. Riot police were called in after inmates at the centre outside the city of Komotini, 820 kilometres (510 miles)...

Greeks facing hard times in a crushing economic crisis are heading to Turkey to sell their jewelry, desperate for cash as more austerity measures are set to be imposed on workers, pensioners and the poor. A silversmith, who declined to...

Hellenic Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change announced approval of a preliminary report on construction of a natural gas link between Greece and neighboring Bulgaria. More specifically, the northern Greek city of Komotini is going to be connected with...

A former plastics factory employee who took two hostages in this northern Greek city surrendered after nearly 12 hours early Friday, police said. He had previously shot and wounded three people. Police say the two hostages were unharmed and the...

3 people have been shot by an unemployed man at a factory in Komotini, 500 miles northeast of Athens, the BBC reports. The shooter had reportedly been fired from the plant, which makes plastic goods such as wheely bins, eight...