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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 – Without mentioning that Turkey is letting human traffickers keep sending them, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu repeated claims that Greece is pushing back refugees and migrants across the border and the seas.
He told Turkey’s pro-government newspaper The Daily Sabah that’s a mouthpiece for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Greece and the EU’s border patrol Frontex bear shame for alleged pushbacks.
He called the EU agency the “disgrace of our century” that has to “wear black bands on their sleeves,” and added: “Pushbacks, especially by Greece, are both a serious problem and a crime against humanity, staring the whole world in the eye.”
During a year-end evaluation of Turkey’s Coast Guard he claimed that “Greek elements push back 83 percent of irregular migrants who reach their borders,” without offering any proof.
“It is not a clean institution. European civilization and Europe will be called to account for this institution. The world’s dirtiest institution is Frontex,” he added, not noting that Turkey’s Coast Guard doesn’t stop human traffickers.
Turkey is holding some 4.4 million refugees and migrants fleeing war, strife and economic hardship in their homelands who went there as a jumping-off point to reach the European Union.
After the bloc closed its borders to them and other EU countries reneged on promises to help settle them, the problem was largely dumped on Greece and its islands, still ongoing for now.
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.