TEHRAN, October 25-Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu urged Greece on Tuesday to not become a “safe haven” for plotters of last year’s coup attempt, citing the 995 people who have applied for asylum since the failed putsch.
TEHRAN, October 17 - A powerful earthquake shook the Greek island of Kos early Friday morning, damaging several buildings and the main port, killing at least two people and causing more than 120 injuries, authorities said.
TEHRAN, October 5 -No person on Earth will be safe from US persecution if Greece agrees to American demands to extradite Russian entrepreneur Aleksandr Vinnik over unsubstantiated accusations of Bitcoin fraud, Timofey Musatov, Vinnik’s lawyer, told RT.
TEHRAN, May 30, YJC -Greek officials have insisted that a deal on the country’s debt relief program would be possible in June, so that Athens would not need to opt out of receiving extra bailout loans to reimburse a debt the following month.
Labor unions in Greece have staged a 24-hour strike across the country against new austerity measures demanded by the country’s international creditors, causing major disruptions in travel and public services.
TEHRAN, May 16, YJC - Greek seamen and journalists have walked off their jobs ahead of a nationwide general strike to protest new austerity measures in the cash-strapped country.
TEHRAN, May 14, YJC -An intercity train derailed in northern Greece on Saturday, leaving four passengers dead and five seriously injured, including the driver, the state railway said in a statement.
TEHRAN, April 22, YJC - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif is visiting Greece on Sunday to join "the ten of the world's greatest civilizations" conference for two days, said Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi.
Global economic downturn made certain European countries including Greece to adopt austerity measures. Many people in this country are suffering poverty.
Turkey said it has decided to reconsider its controversial refugee deal with the European Union in a row with Greece over the repatriation of eight coup suspects.
Greece currently does not meet the conditions necessary to accept asylum seekers under Germany’s plan to start sending back migrants who entered the European Union through the Greek border, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesperson in Greece, Roland Schonbauer, told Sputnik Monday.
Greek police say a gun fired against police outside a political party headquarters in Athens was used in past attacks claimed by domestic far-left extremists.
MOSCOW, January 30 (Sputnik) — A former economic advisor to the Reagan administration believes that Western banks and governments are a threat to Greek sovereignty and to its peoples' standard of living, and that only by re-aligning itself with Russia can Greece stave off these 'marauders.'
ATHENS, Jan 25, 2015 (AFP) - The leader of the radical left-wing Syriza party poised to win Greece's parliamentary election on Sunday said that Europe must find an alternative to austerity.
SINGAPORE, Jan 7, 2015 (AFP) - Oil prices fell in Asia Wednesday to their lowest levels in five-and-a-half years on fears about fresh global turmoil over a political crisis in Greece, analysts said.