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The "I am more leftist than thou" game between Greek cabinet members continues as new Education Minister Nikos Filis tries to outdo his predecessor in refusing the importance of the Pontic Genocide. There is no other reason to explain Filis'...

The makeshift graves of the anonymous refugees who drowned on the deadly journey between Turkey and the neighboring Greek islands on rickety boats tells a sad story. Behind the cemetery of Saint Panteleimon, on the island of Lesvos, lie about thirty graves, scattered...

A new Aegean Sea tragedy occurred on Thursday in the sea area 250 meters off the coast of Kos island where the coast guard recovered the bodies of two refugee children. It was the early hours of Thursday when a...

Greece's Education Minister Nikos Filis is under relentless fire by opposition MPs and the whole Pontic population after expressing the opinion that the slaughtering of 350,000 Pontian Greeks by the Turkish army was not a genocide. When asked about the...

Greece's Education Minister Nikos Filis rejected the notion that the slaughter of Pontian Greeks by the Turks was a genocide. The leftist minister appeared on Star television late on Monday night in an interview and debate with the audience. Specifically, Filis...

The Greek government is facing increasing pressure to take down the fence along its land border with Turkey in the Evros region in order to stop refugees from making the deadly journey to Europe via the Aegean Sea. Citizen Protection...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is to visit Ankara in the second half of November to discuss the refugee crisis with his Turkish counterpart, Ahmet Davutoglu. On Monday, Tsipras called Davutoglu on the telephone and congratulated him on his re-election...

More than 60 refugees and migrants, most of them women and children have died while making the dangerous trip from Turkey to Greece in an attempt to flee conflict stricken countries in the Middle East. The Greek government has...

Cyprus has called upon Turkey, in line with the calls of the international community and the resolutions and recommendations of the UN and other relevant bodies, to end the occupation of Cyprus and to cease violating the fundamental rights...

The issue of missing persons cannot be resolved without the effective cooperation of Turkey, President Anastasiades has said. In a speech delivered on Thursday by Commissioner Photis Photiou at a Church memorial service for the missing persons of the 1974...