The increase in regular flights offered by US airlines to Athens and Thessaloniki has helped to greatly boost tourist flows from the USA, the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) for the region of Greece said in a statement on Friday.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis gave a historic address to a joint session of the US Congress on Tuesday, the first ever by a Greek leader, and only one of a handful delivered at the Capitol by a foreign head of state or government.
The "Blue Motherland", the largest exercise "in the history of the Turkish Republic" according to the headquarters of the Turkish armed forces, began at dawn on Wednesday. The start of the "rehearsal for war", as the Turkish media described it, was at 5:00 on the morning of February 27, with the exercise being completed in ten days on 8 March. The first images from the bases of Aksaz - opposite Rhodes and Gjoljuk, in the Marmara Sea: