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Cyprus' Foreign Ministry is, in effect, telling residents not to visit Turkey because of what it called onerous changes in visa laws that mean Cypriot passport holders would have to declare that their country doesn't exist. Ankara bars Cypriot vessels from its...

Greek Police arrested eight people for drug trafficking Monday during two major drug busts in northeast Greece and Attica. In the first case, two people, a man aged 19 and a woman aged 21, have been arrested after police’s anti-drug...

Yesterday, April 3, a Turkish frigate entered Greek territorial waters and its helicopter approached the shores of an inhabited Greek island of the Dodecanese. According to the Hellenic National Defence General Staff (GEETHA), the Turkish frigate, BARBAROS, entered Greek territorial...

Approximately 800-1000 Greeks have settled in Turkey, mostly in Istanbul due to the economic crisis in Greece, as mentioned in a BBC show. According to the BBC report, a coffee shop in Cihangi, Istanbul, is always filled with Greeks who come...

The arrest in Athens of Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) leader Huseyin Fevzi Tekin and three other Turkish citizens in a February 10th raid highlighted the importance of regional counter-terrorism co-operation, experts said. The operation, which initial reports said was...

Under the current political climate, there is a slim possibility that a conciliatory agreement to resolve the Cyprus issue may not be far off. If successful, the island will be administered under a Bi-Zonal, Bi-Communal Federation. The new president...

It appears that despite the crisis in Greece, nightclubs known as "bouzoukia" are still popular among Greeks who spend their money throwing carnations at their favorite singers as a token of admiration. Every week at least one truck carrying 500,000...

Angelos Filippides, Greece's former CEO of Hellenic Postbank (TT) has been held in the Turkish prison of Maltepe since Saturday noon. He was arrested on Friday night in a hotel in Taksim Square, Istanbul, on an international warrant, in relation to...

Greek exports to Turkey, such as cotton, fuel and plastics, have increased sevenfold within a decade, soaring from 369 million euros in 2002 to 2.6 billion in 2012, quoting official figures. There was a 38% increase from 2011 to...

  The radical developments on the political scenery of Turkey lately have caused anxiety among policymakers of more than 500 Greek companies that have “cashed” money to the neighboring country. The companies’ officials believe that their investments are not at...