Nine months after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s crushing defeat in Turkish municipal elections, one of the worst blows he has suffered in his 22 years of rule, the fall of Assad came as a gift, making Ankara the most powerful foreign actor in the region.
For Athens restaurant owner Christos Kapetanakis, rent has always been high, but now he faces what he calls “a second rent” as soaring electricity bills slash profits and force him to raise prices.
In a dim one-room apartment in one of Istanbul’s poorest neighborhoods, 11-year-old Atakan Sahin curls up on a threadbare sofa with his siblings to watch TV while their mother stirs a pot of pasta.
Turkey gained renown as a haven for refugees by welcoming more than 3 million Syrians fleeing violence between forces from Bashar Assad ’s government and a patchwork of rebel groups.
As silently as they had arrived, three teenagers slipped away following a member of a smuggling gang, hardly older than themselves, through the shadowed-filled station in the northeastern Italian city of Trieste one cold winter evening.
“If the head of state lacks even basic powers, how can they fulfill their regulatory role? If Parliament is in clear opposition to public sentiment, who will protect the country from decay and potential anarchy?” These were the questions raised by Konstantinos Karamanlis in January 1975.
“Is France now Greece on the Seine?” wonders the Wall Street Journal, as investors fret that turmoil in Europe’s second-largest economy could trigger a new eurozone crisis.
In theory, golden visas – which allow foreigners to stay in a country in return for sizeable investments – should be a win-win solution. On the flip side, however, they can carry large social costs.
Syrian refugees across Turkey jubilantly welcomed the downfall of Bashar Assad’s government Sunday, with many embracing the chance to return to their homeland.
In the coming days, the plenary session of the Greek Parliament will be occupied with a bill concerning wage employment: collective bargaining agreements and minimum wage.
A Turkish government proposal to end a decades-long conflict with Kurdish militants has put Kurdish rights back in the spotlight, at a time when Kurdish leaders say repression is rife and freedoms won more than a decade ago have eroded.
The crime had been foretold in early September: The 30-year-old truck driver had threatened his former partner, 43-year-old Dora Nastouli, with a kitchen knife.
Why are Greek parties to the right of New Democracy celebrating the election of Donald Trump in the US and the ousting of conservative hardliner Antonis Samaras from the governing center-right party?
US president-elect Donald Trump’s recent announcements about who he plans to appoint to key posts in his administration when he takes office in January have caused jitters in Ankara and dashed hopes that Turkish interests would be well served by his return to the White House.
“He’s tough but I like him.” This was then-US President Donald Trump’s unequivocal response when Greece’s Alexis Tsipras tried to bring up the issue of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recalcitrant posturing.
“The result was rather expected based on the performance of Kamala Harris, who did not manage to separate her stance from Joe Biden’s politics, which had caused dissatisfaction,” Dr George Tzogopoulos tells Kathimerini.
Donald Trump’s return to the White House for a second term presents complex challenges for the Middle East, including for Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, says Yonatan Touval, a senior foreign policy analyst at Mitvim.
“‘Small America’ won today and it is going to abandon the world,” international law professor Maria Gavouneli tells Kathimerini.
Donald Trump’s victory in the race to become the next US president will, if confirmed, have economic consequences for the rest of the world that are likely to be deep and quite immediate.
First scene: Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni, wearing black sunglasses, arrives in front of the Evelpidon courthouse. “I ask you to respect my privacy. I have two 3-year-old children, I am only here to shake their hands,” she says.
Firefighters are continuing to battle a creeping fire that has been burning for four days on Mount Pangaio in the northern region of Macedonia.
The sea journey from the Lebanese coast to Cyprus – the closest EU member-state – takes just 10 hours in the motorboats used by traffickers.
