North Aegean islands

Turkish overflights in the Aegean continued on Sunday with two fighter jets entering Athens's FIR, ignoring an informal moratorium on military activity that is customary between Greece and Turkey during major religious holidays.

All violations were carried out by two Turkish F-16 jets which flew over the Oinousses complex, a cluster of small islands in the northeastern Aegean.

Turkish overflights in the Aegean continued on Sunday with two fighter jets entering Athens's FIR, ignoring an informal moratorium on military activity that is customary between Greece and Turkey during major religious holidays.

All violations were carried out by two Turkish F-16 jets which flew over the Oinousses complex, a cluster of small islands in the northeastern Aegean.

Locals of the Aegean resort island of Gökçeada have become angered due to the submission of an environmental assessment report (ÇED) by an engineering and consultancy company in an application to the Environment Ministry for the construction of a quarry on the island.

The restoration of the Panagia Phaneromeni Church in the northwestern Turkish province of Balıkesir's evocative Ayvalık district has been completed. 

A group of 17 Turkish citizens seeking asylum in Greece after crossing on a rubber dinghy to the eastern Aegean island of Oinousses includes six children and four women.

Turkey has started to build a watchtower and a pier on Çavuş Adası, an island in the Aegean Sea, only one mile away from the Kardak islets, which Turkey and Greece nearly went to war over in 1996.

The issue of the Greek Muslim minority in Western Thrace has become an almost permanent fixture on the agenda, most recently as a result of comments made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his visit to Greece in early December.

An application filed by a mining company to search for gold and silver mines in the Aegean resort island of Gökçeada in the northwestern Çanakkale province has been withdrawn after environmental concerns, according to a statement released by the Environment and Urbanization Ministry’s Provincial Directorate.

The Aegean resort island of Gökçeada is on the verge of environmental damage from plans to construct a gold mine, prompting criticism from authorities and residents of the island.

Μigrant and refugee flows to Lesvos and other islands in the northeastern Aegean remained high in November, based on the latest figures released on Tuesday.

A total of 1,000 persons have arrived on Lesvos, 485 on Chios and 114 on Samos from November 1 to November 14.