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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.
ANKARA – After the European Union backed down on sanction threats over his plan to drill for oil and gas off Greek islands, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said it wouldn't have stopped him even if those had gone ahead.
The EU earlier in December said penalties would be imposed but – as it did in October – stepped back and said no sanctions would even be discussed until March, 2021 even as he has mocked the bloc's leaders and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Erdogan said those threatening Turkey with sanctions, which would exempt him in any case, will wind up disappointed and losing.
In a videotaped message for a highway opening, the Turkish president noted that his country “will never hesitate to use its sovereign rights," the state-run Anadolu agency reported.
"They tried to confront Turkey using every method, such as using terrorist group, coup attempts, political and economic traps, sanctions … thank God they have not been successful so far,” he said in a scattershot attack.
He said the EU and Greece and anyone wanting to work with Turkey would have to use respect and fairness. "We leave the door open for those who are ready to sit and talk with us on equal terms and agree with fair offers,” he said after saying they would have to make concessions, not Turkey.
Mitsotakis withdrew his first call for sanctions to give diplomacy a chance but that immediately failed and led to Erdogan resending an energy research vessel and warships off the Greek island of Kastellorizo.
He withdrew them just ahead of this month's meeting but, seeing no penalties will be implemented, said they'll go back in again, giving Turkey months of time to hunt for oil and gas in and around Greek waters.
The EU imposed soft sanctions against only two executives of Turkey's state-run petroleum company for drilling in Cypriot waters but Turkey ignored and defied those.
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.