Greek Police

Turkey's Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has slammed Greek authorities, claiming that the Greek has thrown three migrants into the Aegean Sea, which resulted in one of the victims' death.

Soylu said on Twitter that two of the migrants were rescued while the other one had died following an incident off the coast of the Çeşme district in Turkey's İzmir province.

Frontex told BIRN that all due procedures were followed, after the Italy-based Association for Legal Studies on Immigration, ASGI, claimed the EU border agency and Greek police on November 6 intercepted a team of four ASGI legal experts near the border village of Idomeni in Greece and forced them back to North Macedonia,

A Greek police officer who was detained in Turkey's northwestern province of Edirne on Dec. 5 has been released by a local court with a ban on traveling abroad as authorities continue to sweep their mobile phones.

Greek Police and the foreign ministry are in a state of alert after a Greek policeman on trip to the city of Edirne was arrested.

The 41-year-old police sergeant is serving in the Feres police precinct in the Greek-Turkish border area of Evros and hails from the village of Antheia.

Sources say the policemen has been arrested, possibly by the Turkish gendarmerie.

The trial in Mytilene, Lesvos, opened on Thursday of 24 aid workers from Greece and elsewhere accused of complicity in a criminal organization.

Greek police arrested anti-vax lawyer Nikos Anastasiadis last night in accordance with a prosecutor's order that cited the "dissemination of fake news" on COVID-19 and "incitement to disobedience".

A preliminary investigation had previously been conducted by the prosecutor's office following complaints by citizens.

The data on the cycle of violence wrought by juvenile gangs is shocking and rings an alarm bell for us all.

The investigative journalism piece published in Ta Nea today records 25 gangs all over Attica.

According to Greek Police data, between January and August of this year, 208 minors were beaten up and 211 were robbed by members of other gangs.

A tsunami in the sea area southeast of Crete was caused after the earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 on the Richter scale, according to the Tsunami Warning Service. The Church of Agios Nikolaos in Xyrocampos, Sitia, has collapsed and there have been reports of damage in the wider Sithia area, Kathimerini reported.

Greece's police minister on Oct. 10 said 250 additional guards would be deployed on the country's land border with Turkey, where thousands of asylum-seekers tried to enter last year.

From Saturday, bars, cafes and restaurants will be allowed to operate their indoor areas at full capacity, and those who have been fully vaccinated or have a certificate proving that they have recently recovered from the coronavirus can enter these establishments without it is necessary to observe social distancing, writes the electronic edition of the Greek newspaper Kathimerini.