Xanthi
Teen arrested in Rhodope for transporting migrants
A 17-year-old foreign national was arrested in northern Greece on Friday for transporting in a car six migrants who did not have the legal documents that would allow them to enter the country.
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Greece’s Unrecognised Turkish Minority Takes Plight to UN
A Muslim in Athens praying in a new mosque, the first official place of worship for Muslims in Athens, 2019. Photo: EPA-EFE/ORESTI PANAGIOTOU
The letter focuses on its educational and religious problems and its legal harassment for use of the word "Turkish".
Turkish minority in Xanthi elects religious leader
Mustafa Trampa has been elected as the new religious leader, mufti, of Xanthi by the Turks of the Western Thrace region on Sept. 9, amid the ongoing pressure on the Greek government for over 30 years.
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The powerful Greek drone Turkey fears...(photos)
It is a joint collaboration between the Hellenic Aerospace Industry (EAB) with the Aristotle University, the Democritus University of Thrace, and the University of Thessaly
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Greece will Strengthen NATO forces in Bulgaria
Greece is backing NATO forces in the Alliance's east wing with light anti-aircraft artillery in line with its commitment to join the NATO Response Force (NRF), which was activated immediately after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, BGNES reported.
Bulgarian Defense Minister Denied the News that Greek military will Strengthen the Army
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Impressive photos from joint Greek-US military operation “OLYMPIC COOPERATION-21” (video)
The operation took place in Xanthi
Northern Greece – A host of the unvaccinated – How 8 areas reached lockdown
Experts and the government are concerned about the course of the pandemic in Northern Greece. It is characteristic that epidemiologist Gikas Maiorkinis in yesterday's official information about the coronavirus, spoke of a "worrying exception" of the areas in the north of the country.
Turkey urges Greece to end pressure against elected muftis in Western Thrace
Greece must put an end to its interventionist practices and policies of pressure against Muslim religious leaders elected by the Turkish minority in Western Thrace, Turkey's foreign minister said on Sept. 4.
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‘Democritus 2021’ military exercise (video-photos)
The exercise is being held in Xanthi from 11 to 18 July
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Turkey condemns Greek court's sentencing of elected Muslim official
Turkey on June 17 condemned a Greek court's decision to sentence the elected mufti, or Muslim official, of the city of Xanthi to time in prison with a three-year deferment of the sentence.
A criminal court in the city of Thessaloniki sentenced Ahmet Mete to 15 months in prison for "disrupting public order by sowing public discord."