Europe

The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers adopted an Interim Resolution this week regarding Greek Cypriots, saying that it had profound concerns over Turkey's delay in paying damages related to its 1974 invasion of Cyprus. It urged Turkish authorities to...

Turkish commandos (not Turkish police, as on other occasions) apparently kidnapped two Greek Cypriots in the buffer zone near Bergama, near Dherynia on Wednesday, military reports in Athens said. Both victims, aged 42 and 33 years, had visited the area...

According to the verdict of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued on November 2nd, 2010, Greek-Cypriots were forcibly displaced during the Turkish invasion in 1974. Now the ECHR has decided that Turkey is obliged to pay millions of...

A Turkish Cypriot committee has awarded damages of 54 milion Turkish lira (almost 25 million euros), to be paid from Turkey's budget, to two Greek Cypriots for property they were forced to abandon in northern Cyprus during the 1974...

Greeks and Cypriots are the least likely among Europeans to put the blame solely on Russia for the war in Ukraine, according to a Europe-wide survey conducted by Eurostat, the statistical body of the EU. The survey was conducted in...

Growing up in the northern suburbs of London, you realize quickly that the Greek-British in London have a firm position as a recognized and ever-growing community within the United Kingdom, and particularly in the London area. A considerable number of...

Eight people from Greece, Cyprus and Turkey will be selected to participate in a program that will introduce them to the parliamentary system of Germany. A total of 120 scholars from 41 countries will learn to cooperate and respect...

The Ministers Committee of the Council of Europe (COE), the competent authority for supervising the proper execution of sentences of the European Court of Human Rights, has today adopted an Interim Resolution, calling on Turkey to pay the compensations...

Der Spiegel’s front-page of April 15 had the provocative title, The poverty lie. How the countries in crisis cover up their riches, showing on its cover a man on a donkey carrying big sacks of money under an EU...

Α free Greek Orthodox secondary school has been given government approval to open its doors in September next year, aiming to meet high academic standards while providing the Cypriot community in the UK with a strong Orthodox element within...

Thirty eight skeletons found buried in the Turkish Diyarbakır Prison are believed to belong to missing Greeks and Greek-Cypriots after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. This shocking truth has been revealed by Eleni Theocharous, a Member of the...

In a head-spinning turn of events, the EU has just rejected an Observer State Status of Turkish Cypriots in Turkic States Body. The breaking news came just one day after Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu announced  that occupied Northern Cyprus...

Greeks, along with Hungarians and Italians, are less supportive of sanctioning Russia than other nationals of the EU member states and European countries, a YouGov Cambridge survey has shown. Since President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, the West has responded...

The occupying forces of Turkey in Cyprus removed recently Greek signs in the ghost town of Varosha in Famagusta, ahead of the visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan there next week. The provocative action took place in the beautiful...

The Greek War of Independence is celebrated in three parallel exhibitions with the collaboration of Cyprus and Naples, Italy