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The National Bank of Greece (NGB) will hold an emergency general meeting on Monday to approve the sale of its Turkish subsidiary Finansbank, the bank announced. "After almost 10 years of successful presence in Turkey, NBG is selling Finansbank to fulfill its...

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci has said “yes” to holding a meeting with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon in Davos, if it is asked of him. Akinci’s statements on Wednesday were made after Anastasiades had made...

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos conveyed his condolences to the German Ambassador to Greece and the victims' families of Tuesday's terrorist attack in Istanbul, Turkey. A close Pavlopoulos aide at the presidency called German envoy Peter Schoof and conveyed...

Greece and Turkey are planning a series of high-level bilateral meetings to discuss tackling the ongoing migrant influx. The trilateral talks between Greece, Turkey and Germany are likely to be called off, after German Chancellor Angela Merkel has come under pressure...

The Hellenic Coast Guard apprehended two Turkish nationals on Monday, suspected of assisting the trafficking of Syrian refugees to the Greek islands. According to Greek media, the men were caught facilitating the smuggling of 14 Syrian refugees to the Greek island of Kalymnos. "The...

Hundreds of Greek Cypriot refugees from the Turkish occupied village of Argaki, in the Morphou area, celebrated a holy mass on Saturday at their village church of St. John the Baptist for the first time since the village was...

The prosperous and proud countries of Syria and Iraq have been fighting the ravages of war madness for years. The Gulf War (1990-1) was the start and the ultimate demise of those nations. Fortified by a US-led coalition, foreign...

The European Union should establish a new frontier on the northern border of Greece because an agreement with Turkey would not suffice to stop the massive inflow of migrants coming to Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday. "I...

A formation of four Turkish jet fighters violated Greece's national air space in the northeastern Aegean on Thursday, Greek defense ministry officials said. The Turkish jets entered Greece’s national air space on three occasions, Greek authorities said, adding that two...

A woman of Swiss-Egyptian nationality was arrested and detained at the police headquarters in Alexandroupolis on Thursday, on suspicion she has links with ISIS. The woman was arrested while trying to cross the Greek border to Turkey with her four-year-old...