Dora Bakoyannis

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu suggested on Wednesday that Ankara intends to abide by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, which decided the sovereignty of many Aegean islands, despite President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's recent criticism of the agreement.

New Democracy heavyweight Dora Bakoyannis on Monday slammed a government auction of four private nationwide TV licenses as an unconstitutional effort by Greece's left-led government to deflect public attention from economic failures.

"[The government]… is trying to direct public attention away from pension cuts and tax hikes," the conservative MP told Alpha radio.

Crowds gathered at Zografou Cemetery on Monday morning so that people could pay their last respects to ND leadership candidate Vangeli Meimarakis’ sister, Vasso Meimaraki, who died of cancer.

Finally the time has arrived for the main opposition New Democracy (ND) party to choose its leader after all the pressure of failed national elections, the fiasco of a failed local election and a time of introspection as different party factions pull the party in all directions. Haven’t voted yet? Here’s a profile of the four candidates.

Main opposition conservative New Democracy members will head to the polling booths on Sunday, November 22, to elect their party leader. 781,136 liberal supporters (around a third of the party’s voters) had shown up to vote in the first internal elections held by liberals in November 2009 in relation to the October elections held in that same year.

Macedonia Online (MINA), a website focusing on issues of relevance to Skopje, reports taht Alexandra Papadopoulou was removed from her post as Greek Ambassador in Brussels because she failed to follow orders related to Greece’s line on the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).

Despite the scarcity of female lawmakers elected on September 20 , the 59 that managed to make their way to Greek Parliament did not fail to make an impression during the swearing in ceremony on Saturday.

Political percolation within the Greek opposition appeared to pick this week amid the increasingly frustrating “last stretch” negotiations between Athens and its institutional creditors, as well as a budding pro-Europe movement that has recently emerged on the pavement.

Greece has completed five years of austerity just as popular “Game of Thrones” is in its fifth series and both the Greek crisis and the popular series have a great deal in common with politics, diplomatic games and danger lurking ahead. Of course, not even George R. R. Martin’s fantasy could have come up with as many cliff-hankers as Greece’s very real turmoil.

New Democracy suggested Tuesday that the government has no intention of seeking an agreement with the institutions and is instead focused on a rift that could lead Greece out of the euro.