When the phone rang at the headquarters of the Naxos Wildlife Protection Association at 02:30 in the morning, nothing prepared them for the very pleasant news they would hear about the green turtle.
Reknown author Victoria Hislop appeared to oppose the British Museum's stance on the possible return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece.
The All of Greece, One Culture festival, a Ministry of Culture initiative, is offering a week of free cultural performances at historic venues nationwide through July 20.
“What is being done from North Africa and Libya is an operation of migrant invasion of Europe.” With these words Minister of Immigration and Asylum, Thanos Plevris, described the situation at the sea border south of Crete in Parliament the other day. The numbers are inexorable and of course they are what led the government to take the extraordinary measures to manage the migration flows: Creating a closed structure in Crete, suspending the processing of asylum applications and detention for those whose applications are rejected.