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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS — Writer, journalist and human rights activist Asli Erdogan described Turkey's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention for combatting violence against women as a "very dangerous step" in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) on Wednesday.
"Turkey is on a very negative path," she said and added:
"Especially in these conditions of the pandemic, the Istanbul Convention is particularly imperative, as violence spreads. Now is the time to improve the laws that protect women. But what is Turkey doing? Exactly the opposite. It legitimises this idea by withdrawing from the Convention. In essence, it says that it is legal to use violence against women, children, gays."
Ankara's decision has shocked and angered the international community, but she said that the Turkish president has shown his intentions for months. "He had long ago stated that the terminology used by the Convention – references to gays, for example – is an insult to the institution of the Turkish family. There was then a great wave of reaction from women's movements, including AKP women, which 'braked' this policy. But recently he said in public that Turkish society needs to be protected, so I think it was clear that something like this was going to happen."
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.