Human geography

Istanbul's Arter museum opened a new online exhibition, titled 'Altan Gürman: A Pioneer of Contemporary Art in Turkey,' and more than 160 works from its collection on May 18 International Museum Day.

Greece applied for membership to the International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), the Migration Ministry announced in a press release on Tuesday.

The residents of Istanbul, Turkey's largest city by population, have ramped up their water use in the wake of the deadly coronavirus outbreak, but the water levels in the mega city's dams are falling.

Apart from the thrill of exploration and discovery, the Athena Research and Innovation Center's Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) serves multiple purposes, including conserving, analyzing, studying, promoting and disseminating Greece's massive cultural capital.

A man in the northern port city of Thessaloniki was handed a one-year suspended sentence on Monday for flouting a government-ordered closure of retail stores as part of its plan to limit the spread of the coronavirus.

The 44-year-old was arrested in a household goods store inside the city's open Kapani (Vlali) market on April 9, after authorities found a customer.

The Austrian government has agreed to send Greece 181 containers to be used for the accommodation of migrants and refugees and as mobile healthcare facilities, following a request by Athens, according to the ministry of migration on Thursday.

Greece has had to place two camps on lockdown after 21 migrants tested positive for Covid-19.

The fire service in Thessaloniki on Friday was investigating the cause of a fire that broke out in a basement apartment in the suburb of Kalamaria in the early hours of the morning, leading to the death of a 70-year-old resident.

Turkey's Interior Minister said on late April 2 that Istanbul, the city with the most confirmed coronavirus cases, imported the COVID-19 cases from Europe and the government has been paying extra attention to the situation in the metropolis.

A young woman who was found dead on Monday by night in Paleokastro, a suburb north of Thessaloniki, appears to have died from a fall, police said on Tuesday.

According to investigators in the northern port city, the unnamed 20-year-old seems to have been walking her dog in the vicinity of a disused mine when she tumbled at least 50 meters down a rocky slope.

Thousands of corporations have run into trouble as they find out they are not included in the support measures announced by the Finance Ministry even though they meet the criteria required, having been forced to suspend their operations.