Greek consulate

The offices of the Greek consulate in the French city of Nantes were attacked by a group of French anarchists on Wednesday night. The group threw rocks and broke the windows in the ground floor of the building. The anarchists also...

Greece's foreign minister Nikos Kotzias inaugurated on Tuesday the renovated building of the Consulate General of the Hellenic Republic in Turkey's Izmir. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Mevlut Cavusoglu, also attended the ceremony. In addition to its symbolic and...

The Greek Consulate in Istanbul has organized a series of lectures entitled “Remembering the Ottoman Past in the Eastern Mediterranean,” in collaboration with the National Hellenic Research Institute (Ottoman Studies Programme) and the Orient-Institut in Istanbul. The first lecture...

A new fingerprint scanning procedure will be introduced on September 14, 2015, for Russian citizens who wish to issue short-term stay Schengen visas. In order to obtain their visas Russians will have to provide biometric data, which will be...

The Greek government requested all Greek Embassies and Consulates to return any available funds they hold to Greece's central tax authority, on May 15. Greece urged its diplomatic authorities abroad to return unallocated funds (for office supplies, cleaning supplies, etc.) and revenues from consular operations...

The restoration process of a historic Greek Consulate building in the Aegean province of Izmir has begun, with Greek government funding. The historic consulate, which was built in the late 19th century, will be fortified in a restoration that is...

According to Greece's Foreign Ministry, the Greek Consulate in Mariupol, Ukraine, will urgently be transferred from Mariupol to Dnipropetrovsk, due to the hostilities in the region, after the Consul General's request. "Greek Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos has accepted the proposal of...

The documentary "Our Islands: Through the Eyes of a Musician" by the Turkish director and musician Nedim Hazar will be presented on Saturday, May 10 at the Greek Consulate's Sismanoglio Megaro in Taksim square in Istanbul. The 82-minute documentary is described as a...

About 300 Russian tourists cannot fly to Greece due to visa delays that left them stranded in airports, Vladimir Kaganer, head of Russia’s Tez Tour operator, told Interfax on Monday. The problem occurred late last week, when a Greek visa...