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October 27, 2026
For the first time in history, a contingent of Cypriot reserve frogmen will march in the Ohi Day military parade in Thes...
For the first time in history, a contingent of Cypriot reserve frogmen will march in the Ohi Day military parade in Thessaloniki on October 28. The Association of Cypriot Reserve Frogmen, known as SEVAK, will send 24 of its members to take part in Greece's largest annual military parade. The OYK fr
October 27, 2026
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he hopes Israel will not end up in a direct confrontation with Turkey, we...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he hopes Israel will not end up in a direct confrontation with Turkey, weeks after publicly calling President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a "tyrant" at the UN General Assembly. Outlining an updated national security doctrine, Netanyahu said preventing that con
October 27, 2026
A teenager from Larissa will be flag-bearer at Wednesday's Oxi Day parade in Giannouli, and his path to that moment star...
A teenager from Larissa will be flag-bearer at Wednesday's Oxi Day parade in Giannouli, and his path to that moment started ten years ago in a burning apartment with no electricity. On November 23, 2016, a candle being used for light started a fire in a fifth-floor flat on Mandilara Street in centr
October 26, 2026
Today, October 26, the Orthodox world marks the feast of Saint Demetrios, patron saint of Thessaloniki. The date carries...
Today, October 26, the Orthodox world marks the feast of Saint Demetrios, patron saint of Thessaloniki. The date carries double weight: it also commemorates the liberation of Thessaloniki in 1912, when Greek forces entered the city after centuries of Ottoman rule. In Orthodox Christian tradition, a
October 26, 2026
The US Ambassador to Turkey, Tom Barrack, publicly called the longstanding Greece-Turkey dispute "ridiculous" in an inte...
The US Ambassador to Turkey, Tom Barrack, publicly called the longstanding Greece-Turkey dispute "ridiculous" in an interview shared on October 23, saying the two countries have been arguing "forever" and need to stop. Barrack argued that Greece and Turkey are wasting an opportunity by fighting ins
October 26, 2026
The icon of Panagia Soumela arrived in Rethymno on Friday night, marking the first time the revered symbol of Pontic Hel...
The icon of Panagia Soumela arrived in Rethymno on Friday night, marking the first time the revered symbol of Pontic Hellenism has ever set foot on Crete. It landed at Chania airport on a direct flight from Thessaloniki late on October 23, accompanied by Metropolitan Panteleimon of Veria, Naoussa an
October 26, 2026
The US State Department has explicitly called the ratification of the Turkey-Libya maritime memorandum "unhelpful and pr...
The US State Department has explicitly called the ratification of the Turkey-Libya maritime memorandum "unhelpful and provocative," saying it has raised tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean and that Washington's position on the matter has not changed. The statement came after Libya's Benghazi-base
October 26, 2026
A retired Turkish lieutenant general has threatened that French, Italian, and Greek warships could be sunk by missile fi...
A retired Turkish lieutenant general has threatened that French, Italian, and Greek warships could be sunk by missile fire, warning NATO allies to stay out of Eastern Mediterranean exercises with Greece. Retired Lt. Gen. Ismail Hakki Pekin, a former Turkish military intelligence chief, made the rem
October 26, 2026
Historian and commentator Homer Pavlos posted on X this week a stark account of Greek Christians enslaved across roughly...
Historian and commentator Homer Pavlos posted on X this week a stark account of Greek Christians enslaved across roughly 1,300 years of the Muslim-Arab slave trade, estimating that around one million Greek Christians were sold as slaves over that period. Pavlos cited two specific events to anchor t
October 26, 2026
Two days before the 86th anniversary of Oxi Day, a remarkable firsthand account has resurfaced. Italy's own ambassador i...
Two days before the 86th anniversary of Oxi Day, a remarkable firsthand account has resurfaced. Italy's own ambassador in Athens in 1940, Emanuele Grazzi, left a memoir describing exactly what happened when he knocked on Ioannis Metaxas's door in the early hours of October 28, 1940, carrying Mussoli
October 26, 2026
Australian UFC champion Alexander Volkanovski sparked a fresh wave of debate after images from his recent celebrations s...
Australian UFC champion Alexander Volkanovski sparked a fresh wave of debate after images from his recent celebrations showed him alongside people holding the red flag with a yellow sun associated with North Macedonia. Volkanovski's paternal roots trace back to Beranci, a village near Bitola in what
October 26, 2026
Researchers have recovered 42 lost pages from one of the most important early New Testament manuscripts in existence, an...
Researchers have recovered 42 lost pages from one of the most important early New Testament manuscripts in existence, and the trail leads straight back to Mount Athos, Greece. The manuscript is Codex H, a 6th-century Greek copy of the Letters of St Paul. An international team led by Professor Garri
October 26, 2026
Former Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis drew a hard line on Sunday, saying Greece cannot accept any Turkish demand...
Former Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis drew a hard line on Sunday, saying Greece cannot accept any Turkish demand for notification or approval over the Greece-Cyprus subsea electricity cable, no matter what Ankara chooses to call it. Speaking at the War Museum in Athens during an event by th
October 26, 2026
Pope Leo XIV met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Vatican on Saturday, October 24, just eleven days after su...
Pope Leo XIV met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Vatican on Saturday, October 24, just eleven days after surgeons removed the lower lobe of his right lung in a lung cancer operation. The meeting marked one of Leo's first formal engagements since leaving the hospital on October 17. Bart
October 26, 2026
113 years ago today, an Ottoman general made a decision that changed Thessaloniki's history forever. Hasan Tahsin Pasha,...
113 years ago today, an Ottoman general made a decision that changed Thessaloniki's history forever. Hasan Tahsin Pasha, a 67-year-old senior Ottoman officer of Albanian descent, surrendered Thessaloniki to Crown Prince Constantine on October 26, 1912, refusing to share the city with Bulgaria despi
October 26, 2026
On this day 106 years ago, October 25, 1920, King Alexander of Greece died at just 27 years old from an infection caused...
On this day 106 years ago, October 25, 1920, King Alexander of Greece died at just 27 years old from an infection caused by a monkey bite. It remains one of the strangest deaths in European royal history. Alexander became king in 1917 under unusual circumstances. The Allied powers pressured his fat
October 26, 2026
Greece's highest-ranking military officer stood inside the Kerdyllia Holocaust Museum on Saturday and showed the German ...
Greece's highest-ranking military officer stood inside the Kerdyllia Holocaust Museum on Saturday and showed the German ambassador a photograph of his own great-grandfather, one of 230-plus men and teenage boys executed by German troops 85 years ago. General Dimitrios Choupis, Chief of the Hellenic
October 26, 2026
A French academic who traveled to Constantinople left behind one of the most disturbing eyewitness accounts of what Otto...
A French academic who traveled to Constantinople left behind one of the most disturbing eyewitness accounts of what Ottoman authorities did to Christian Greeks under their rule. Homer Pavlos, writing on X yesterday, drew on the testimony of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, a French botanist and physicia
October 25, 2026
On Wednesday, October 28, archaeological sites and museums across Greece will open their doors free of charge as the cou...
On Wednesday, October 28, archaeological sites and museums across Greece will open their doors free of charge as the country marks its national holiday. The free admission covers all sites and museums under the Hellenic Organization of Cultural Resources Development's ticketing system, and the Acrop
October 25, 2026
Greek Army commandos and mountaineering volunteers completed a high-altitude restoration mission at the summit of Mount ...
Greek Army commandos and mountaineering volunteers completed a high-altitude restoration mission at the summit of Mount Taygetos on October 21, reinforcing the ancient stone chapel of Prophet Elijah before winter sets in. The chapel sits at 2,407 metres (7,897 feet) above sea level, crowning the hig
October 25, 2026
A meme of a cat in a straw hat with a thin moustache, posted by a Turkish account with fewer than 85 followers, somehow ...
A meme of a cat in a straw hat with a thin moustache, posted by a Turkish account with fewer than 85 followers, somehow became what millions of users are calling the "First Twitter War" between Turkey and China. It started on October 19 when the account ArdaaZz posted the meme widely seen as mockin
October 25, 2026
Lefteris Petrounias walked into the men's rings final at Rotterdam Ahoy on Saturday as the last-place qualifier and walk...
Lefteris Petrounias walked into the men's rings final at Rotterdam Ahoy on Saturday as the last-place qualifier and walked out with a silver medal. The 35-year-old Greek gymnast scored 14.333, finishing behind China's Lan Xingyu who claimed gold with 14.766. Armenia's Artur Avetisyan took bronze wit
October 25, 2026
Turkey is moving to enshrine its expansive "Blue Homeland" maritime doctrine into national legislation, targeting the Ae...
Turkey is moving to enshrine its expansive "Blue Homeland" maritime doctrine into national legislation, targeting the Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean. Erdogan's ruling AKP party is in the final stages of drafting a bill that would formally define Turkey's claimed maritime jurisdiction zones, ac
October 25, 2026
Greece's Evzones raised the Greek flag at the ANZAC Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney on Sunday, marking the 86th anniversar...
Greece's Evzones raised the Greek flag at the ANZAC Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney on Sunday, marking the 86th anniversary of OXI Day, the day Greece refused Mussolini's ultimatum and entered World War II. The Hellenic Presidential Guard marched from Elizabeth Street to the memorial, joined by commu