Greece and Turkey complete second round of talks
Turkey and Greece held a second round of exploratory talks on Tuesday designed to resolve a dispute over territory.
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
Turkey and Greece held a second round of exploratory talks on Tuesday designed to resolve a dispute over territory.
The new year started in the best way for the Greek company Double Action Defense SA which manufactures ballistic protection material and systems. More specifically, the Greek company managed to be selected by the special forces of the Kuwaiti Police for the supply of 3,000 bulletproof vests following an international tender in which 12 companies from all over the world participated.
A founding member of an Attica Swimming Club fell into the hands of the Juvenile Protection Sub-Directorate of Attica after complaints from two underage athletes that seven years ago, when they were 10 years old, they were sexually abused by this man for two whole years in 2013-2015.
A moderate earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale shook the area of Elassona at 14:57 on Friday. The quake's epicenter was located 16 km west-southwest of Elassona and its focal depth was 8.5 km, the Geodynamics Institute of National Observatory of Athens said.
"The citizens understand who is investing in the idea of unity and who is stoking social tensions," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday in parliament, in reply to a question raised by main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Alexis Tsipras.
The operation of Hellenic Police (EL.AS) . for the evacuation of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki from the squatters, was completed with the police proceeding with 33 detentions.
The 62nd round of exploratory contacts between Greece and Turkey will take place in Athens, on March 16, as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in an announcement. Diplomatic sources clearly emphasize that for Greece the contacts were and remain exploratory.
The sad images everyone saw tonight in Athens must be the last such ones, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday evening, following incidents during a rally to protest police violence in the southern suburb of Nea Smirni.
Government spokesperson Aristotelia Peloni on Wednesday described the incidents that occurred in the Athens district of Nea Smyrni on Tuesday night as "sad and divisive".
Violent incidents erupted during a demonstration against police violence, resulting in hooded men beating a police officer from the "Action" group, who was eventually transported with serious injuries to the 401st Military Hospital, but his life was not in danger. The incidents took place in Nea Smyrni square.
The measures for the pandemic may be extended until March 22, but as both Finance Minister Christos Staikouras and government spokeswoman Aristotle Peloni indicated in their statements, the gradual return to normalcy will begin soon after.
The daughter of the late Errikos Divanis, one of the successors of the family hotel business "DIVANI" in Athens and Thessaly (Kalampaka-Larissa), passed away.
The government is examining the gradual opening of the economy as of March 22, starting with the retail trade sector, Finance Minister Christos Staikouras said on Monday in an interview with 'Proto Thema' radio station.
Tensions erupted shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday in Nea Smyrni Square, when, according to the Hellenic Police, about 30 people attacked DIAS police officers.