February 24, 2016
Turkey-GR
The nerves of the NATO Allies must be jumping around like crazy at this moment in Brussels, where the Military Committee is trying to conclude the operational plan for the deployment of a small naval force in the Eastern Aegean Sea to stem the refugees and migrants flow to Europe. …
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February 22, 2016
Politics, Refugees, Turkey-GR, Very Mix, World
Good old Turkish tactic. While all parties concerned are eager to see the NATO operation in the eastern Aegean Sea launching its mission, Turkey seems to put some obstacles in the operation plan of the North Atlantic Alliance. Ankara insists on a series of issues and refuses to cooperate in …
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February 11, 2016
Politics, Refugees, Turkey-GR, Very Mix, World
Defense Ministers of the North Atlantic Alliance unanimously decided the NATO involvement in the Aegean Sea in order to “assist Turkey in the refugees and migrants issue”, to “intercept smugglers moving migrants from Turkey to Greece,” – and in extended form also to Europe – and “to stem illegal trafficking …
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December 12, 2015
Society
Greece’s street vendors are very dangerous. Especially the species of “chest-nut sellers.” Not only they are suspected of doing big scale tax-evasion, they also dare to put their stand on street corners or outside shops, whether they should not and thus disturb the peaceful flow of Christmas commerce. Therefore, they …
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July 17, 2015
Very Mix
The fire broke out at the foothills of Mount Ymittos in the east of Greek capital Athens. Hot temperatures and strong North winds of up to 9 Beaufort, the fire went quickly out of control. It broke out at 12:38 pm in the forest park of Kareas as all as …
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January 17, 2015
Very Mix
UPDATE: Belgian authorities requested the extradition of a Algerian man who was among the detainees, Greek media reported Sunday evening. According to Euronews, Belgian authorities had said that there was no connection between the man and the mastermind of the foiled terror plot in Vervries, they later asked the Greeks …
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December 2, 2014
Very Mix
UberTaXI landed in Athens and launched its service as of today even though currently only in the Greek capital. “Athens, Your UberTaxi is here!” – With this title, the controversial car-booking company announced the kick off of its operation in Athens, even though “with a limited numbers of cars on …
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June 13, 2014
Very Mix
The cooperation between Greece’s police and coast guard with the American Drug Enforment Administration (DEA) was a full success: 1.13 ton of heroin and 11 arrests – six Greeks, four Turks and two Iranian nationals. According to Greek media, among the arrested drug dealers is also a prominent Greek businessman, …
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November 6, 2013
Society, Uncategorized
Here one more time the post, as many KTG-readers would not open it either via links in FB and Twitter or directly from Homepage. There is an army of “counselors”, “advisers”, “experts” and “specialists” sitting in their fuzzy warm offices in several Greek ministries. This army of well-paid and spoiled …
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November 6, 2013
Society
There is an army of “counselors”, “advisers”, “experts” and “specialists” sitting in their fuzzy warm offices in several Greek ministries. This army of well-paid and spoiled slackers spend the winter months “at work” because the taxpayers come up for their heating needs. the money is paid also by those taxpayers …
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January 15, 2013
Politics, Society
Strong police forces entered the squat in Kypseli district of Athens at 1 p.m. on Tuesday and detained the eight women and the six men who were inside the building at the time of police intervention. The deployment on riot police squads was aiming to prevent expressions of solidarity by other anti-authoritarian …
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January 9, 2013
Society
Greek police started a new operation on Wednesday noon to empty the Skaramangas building from squatters. The operation started at 3:15 p.m. in Patision/Skaramanga street, opposite the National Archaeological Museum and the Polytechnic School. According to Greek media, some of hundreds of anti-authoritarians have set barricades on Stournari street. The …
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January 9, 2013
Politics, Society
The day started with an operation of riot police detaining 101 anti-authoritarians who had re-occupied the building called “Villa Amalia” in downtown Athens. While the building was under police guarding, occupiers were divided in two groups: one group distracted police’ attention, while the other broke the padlocks and entered the …
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November 30, 2012
Society
Short after 4 o’ clock in the morning, strong police forces entered the building of Aristotelio University in Thessaloniki and ended the occupation of contractor workers. Police operation lasted only 10 minutes and ended with the arrest of eleven workers who did not resist. Video: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt The …
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November 29, 2012
Society
A public hospital director in Athens turned an undocumented migrant from Albania to police after the woman had undergone a cancer operation. While still in bed trying to recover from the difficult operation, the woman had to see policemen around her guarding her, while the threat of deportation was hanging above her head like …
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September 21, 2012
Economy
A first in Greece: Acharnon Municipality, a suburb of Attica prefecture, suspended its operation due to economic problems. The decision was taken on Thursday evening at the meeting of the city council. Acharnon Municipality said, it was unable to pay employees and to cover fixed costs. A notice uploaded on the municiaplity’s website …
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February 25, 2011
Politics, World
Is NATO warming up for a military intervention in Lybia, even if for ‘humanitarian reasons’? If the answer is “Yes”, Greece is most likely to play a role in facilitating and supporting North Atlantic Treaty Org. troops with its Souda airbase on the island of Crete, some 300 nautical miles away …
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February 25, 2011
Politics
230 Greeks have been evacuated from Libya with three C-130 and two ships. Among the rescued is a employee at the Greek embassy in Tripoli, who got shot on the shoulder and the leg while driving through the streets of Tripoli. However there are still 10 Greeks enclosed in the Sahara …
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February 24, 2011
Politics
Three C-130 aircraft have left Athens for Libya this morning in order to evacuate some 300 Greeks living and working in the chaos-driven country. They are expected to land at the airport of Tripoli and Sabha at 12 noon and return the same day. According to Foreign Ministry estimations 100 …
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February 22, 2011
Politics
In a huge rescue and evacuation operation Greece is sending ships to repatriate European and Chinese foreigners living in Libya, after requests by several countries. In a statement the Ministry of Civil Protection said that two ships are set to sail tonight and head to Tripoli in order to evacuate European citizens …
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