Ethnic groups in Greece

Great Albania threats to tear Balkan apart

Albanian terrorists, members of the UCK attacked Macedonian institutions in the last two weeks in Gosinac, small city near the Albanian border. Many experts stated that these attacks are reprise of the same scenario like the one in Kosovo. One thing is sure: the tensions between Macedonia and Albania are growing.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has asked Greece to investigate the vandalism of two mosques in Komotini following incidents on Friday.

?Turkey requests Greek authorities to clarify as soon as possible the reason for these atrocious events, which occurred in sacred places? for the Muslim minority in Thrace, a statement said on Saturday, according to the Anadolu Agency.

A crowd of 2,000 people gathered at Freedom Square, Thessaloniki, to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the deportation of 56,000 Greek Sephardic Jews. They solemnly marched from the square to the city's old railway station where the first of 18 trains departed for the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex on March 15, 1943.

Thousands of Bulgarians live and work in Greece and are anxious about the EU future of Bulgaria's southern neighbor. In Sunday's early parliamentary election this future is at stake, as politicians there are sending mixed signals and as a scenario could unfold causing "the cradle of democracy" to fall out of the cradle rocked by Europe.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu was set to leave for the Macedonian capital of Skopje on Dec. 22, for a visit aimed at boosting bilateral relations with the Balkan country, as well as reiterating support for ethnic Turkish communities there.

Macedonian border police officers detained a 33-year-old Bulgarian national who tried to smuggle 11 illegal immigrants through the country.

All of the 11 people were Syrian nationals and were hiding in a hidden compartment of a truck driven by the Bulgarian national.

A long-awaited book by Temelko Neshkov portraying the sufferings of ethnic Bulgarians in the territory of the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia after WWII has left the printing press.

The Macedonian prison authorities have declined to comment after Vraniskovski, who is in jail for embezzling some 250,000 euro from the Macedonian Orthodox Church before defecting to set up his own church, complained of being mistreated.

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Five people – three Greeks and two Bulgarians - have been arrested in Kozani, northern Greece, for baby trafficking.

The arrests came after authorities’ suspicions were raised when a 23-year-old Bulgarian woman checked into a local hospital to give birth.

Macedonian students who last week staged a mass protest against plans for "external testing" have rejected the latest concessions from the Education Minister, Abdulaqim Ademi.

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