Evros

A group of high-school students in Soufli, northern Greece, have made a short documentary about last summer's catastrophic fires in Dadia Forest, an important Natura-protected habit in the region of Evros, in northeastern Greece, examining its impact.

Scientists with the Natural Environment & Climate Change Agency (NECCA) install, for the first time in Greece, 15 artificial nests for the endangered Black vultures of the fire-ravaged Dadia forest in northern Greece. The initiative coincides with the vulture's breeding season, which starts in January. The question now is whether the birds will take to the new nests.

Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu has unveiled plans to expedite the construction of a second highway bridge at the İpsala border crossing with Greece.

Can stubbornness against all odds or the toil and struggle in the lands and waters of the homeland's borders be rewarded? Our debt to the Greeks living in the country's border regions is enormous, collective and personal for each one of us. Any initiative to highlight their contribution is nothing compared to the recognition they rightfully deserve.

"I will send you to Evros!" This line is still used by some as a threat.

But in the regional unit of Evros, and throughout the border regions of Greece, the people who live there do not live like exiles. They take advantage of their land's heritage and become creative, with imagination and stubbornness, even when disasters strike.

The 16th Gastronomos Quality Awards event of Kathimerini's Gastronomos magazine expressed gratitude to Greeks harnessing their creative powers in the country's border regions. These producers and processors of fine Greek food were singled out and honored for 2023 by the magazine's team.

British Home Secretary Suella Braverman commended the Greek government and police during a visit to the Evros border region on Friday for being very effective in preventing "illegal migration" by building "an extremely secure land border" with a sturdy barrier that was completed very rapidly to act as a deterrence.

The Greek government and authorities have been very successful in fighting "illegal migration" by creating "an extremely secure land border" with a sturdy fence that was built very quickly to act as a deterrent, British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has said on a visit to the Evros border region.

Turkish security forces have neutralized four members of the Revolutionary Liberation Party-Front, or DHKP-C, a leftist militant group, near the Evros border, according to a report in the pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper. The report has not been independently confirmed.

The painful sight of Dadia forest in the Evros region in Greece has been destroyed by one of the largest wildfires in recent years in Europe. Experts worry over the ecosystem's survival.