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/ 11 September 2011
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is under fire amid rumours that creditors are about to pull the plug.
A row over the rights to the works of Greece’s most celebrated writer, Nikos Kazantzakis, is intensifying.
The banner flapped in the wind for almost a week, surviving the rigours of sun and sudden downpour.
Protesters’ fury turns fatal as the Greek capital buckles under unrest.
The economic crisis has accelerated the decline of the country’s incomparable archaelogical sites.
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/ 12 February 2010
From empty shops to half-full theatres, restaurants, concert halls and hotels, the signs are everywhere: economic crisis has come to Greece.
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/ 23 October 2009
A Greek café in the heart of Turkey signals a thaw in relations.
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/ 24 February 2008
Fears of a Soviet-educated communist emerging as the next leader of Cyprus — and the first in the European Union — has eclipsed the closest election in the island’s post-colonial history as voters cast their ballots on Sunday. Demetris Christofias, chief of the Marxist-Leninist Akel, has angrily rejected the charges.
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/ 7 September 2007
The Greek poet George Seferis wrote: ”Wherever I go Greece wounds me.” But nothing would wound him more than the sight of his beloved country today after fires that have erupted across its length and breadth and consumed thousands of hectares of forest and farmland, devastated four million olive trees and gutted about 6 000 homes.
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/ 4 September 2007
Nuran Uca never made it to 61 Aydin Arslan Street. If she had gone to the colourful two-storey building, climbed its narrow stairwell, walked down a corridor and sat in the plump brown armchair that so many other women had used, she might be alive today.