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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.
NICOSIA – Visiting Cyprus – where Turks occupy the northern third – Greek Defense Minister Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos said Greece’s Armed Forces are ready to defend Aegean islands if Turkey makes a move on them.
Speaking after Cyprus’ independence day military parade, he said that Turkey’s “revisionist and destabilizing behavior” also undermines security in the wider eastern Mediterranean region.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened an attack and warned Greece his forces might “suddenly come one night,” as he continued to demand Greece removes troops off Aegean islands near Turkey’s coast.
Panagiotopoulos dismissed Turkey’s demands to demilitarize the islands “as if they’re not being threatened and as if we don’t have the right to take all defensive measures for them” as “baseless and unacceptable.”
Erdogan has cited the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne – that Turkey doesn’t recognize – and the 1947 Treaty of Paris – which Turkey didn’t sign – that he said bar Greece from having troops on the islands, although removing them means they’d be open to an easy takeover.
Turkey summoned the Greek ambassador to protest the alleged deployment of dozens of U.S.-made armored vehicles to the slands of Samos and Lesbos, which Ankara says should remain demilitarized in line with international treaties, and where refugees and migrants who came from Turkey are being held.
Erdogan also warned that his country wouldn’t hold back on defending its rights and interests against NATO ally Greece, further ratcheting up tensions between the historic rivals, the defense alliance wanting no part of it.
(Material from the Associated Press was used in this report)
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.