Papoulias

Greece is a "state of law with established democratic institutions" and it "would be dangerous to ignore the achievements of the last 50 years," President Katerina Sakellaropoulou has told the final day of the "50 Years of the Metapolitefsi" conference taking place in Athens.

Elaine Papoulias lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts, a small town with a population of about 7,000, half an hour from Boston, which she said reminds her of Laconia.

A phony social media account spread fake news on Wednesday that famous Greek singer Nana Mouskouri has passed away.

The gruesome news was announced in a fake Twitter account which carried the name and photo of the acting Minister of Culture and Sports Giorgos Koumendakis, who later posted that the fake account was created by Italian writer Tommaso Debenedetti.

It is supposed that summers in the Aegean should be "calm". This is imposed at least by the "Papoulias-Yilmaz memorandum" of 1988, but also by the practice followed by Greece and Turkey in previous years, with this "tradition" being disrupted from 2020 onwards.

"Smart lockers" is the business idea that local startup Freshlime has successfully floated into a new network for distributing online orders.

Over thirty years ago the foreign ministers of Greece and Turkey, Karolos Papoulias and Mesut Yilamz signed an agreement in Vouliagment which set a number of rules concerning the relations between the two countries.

The agreement included a provision that both sides would refrain from military activity over the Aegean on each other's holy days.

Italian prankster Tommaso De Benedetti struck again on Wednesday, falsely announcing the death of former Greek president Karolos Papoulias on Twitter using a fake account he created under the name of Deputy Prime Minister Panagiotis Pikrammenos.
"Karolos Papoulias, the former President of Greece, has died few minutes ago at 90," the tweet read.

Despite the fact that ongoing talks between Greek and Turkish military officials in Athens are ostensibly focused on finding ways to revive confidence-building measures, Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Wednesday that he has instructed his country's delegation to place all the differences dividing Athens and Ankara in the Aegean, Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean "on the table."

Delegations from the Greek and Turkish foreign ministries met on Friday in Athens for the first time in 18 months as part of the effort by the two countries to keep lines of communication open and to de-escalate tensions.

With concern mounting over a recent spike in Turkish transgressions, Greece's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday handed Turkish Ambassador in Athens Burak Ozugergin a demarche in protest at the harassment on Monday by fighter jets of the helicopter transporting Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to the eastern Aegean island of Agathonisi to attend an event marking the anniversary of Greece's 1821 uprising