The rocky island of Mikros Anthropofas in the island complex of Fourni has come in the last few days in the front line of current affairs and at the heart of Turkish provocations.

With truncheons and kicks, the men of riot police thwarted demonstrators from an anti-war rally trying to tear down a statue of US president Harry S. Truman statue in the center of Athens. Chemicals were used, before the protesters finally dispersed.

The regional development conference that will be held on April 16-17 on the island of Rhodes is expected to have a positive effect on the regional economy.