Didymoteicho

The Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, made a working visit to the Regional Units of Evros and Xanthi. The first stop was Didymoteicho, where she inspected the Bayezid Mosque, noting the progress in the project’s development over the last month.

Greek border guards patrolling the country's northeastern border region of Evros found an injured migrant, state-run broadcaster ERT reported on Thursday.

The man, a Moroccan national, had a wound in the abdomen. According to ERT, the migrant said he had been shot by Turkish military guards when he tried to cross the river dividing Turkey from Greece. 

As reactions to the transfer of migrants from the islands to the mainland intensify, local protests are also mounting in northern Greece over increasing arrivals from Turkey across the Evros River.

An investigating magistrate on the southeastern Aegean island of Rhode is to hear the testimony of two young men accused of raping and murdering a 21-year-old woman who rejected their sexual advances by beating her and dumping her in the sea.

Greek authorities say 18 people were hospitalized after the latest in a string of often fatal road accidents involving vehicles smuggling migrants through northern Greece.

Police say a van driven by a suspected migrant smuggler and crammed with another 46 people veered off a road and crashed near the northeastern town of Didymoteicho overnight Wednesday.

Police in northern Greece are questioning two foreign nationals, both aged 28, who were stopped near the Turkish border on Friday with just over a kilogram of heroin in their possession.

The two men, who are believed to be members of a cross-border drug smuggling racket, were caught near the border town of Didymoteicho.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry on March 22 expressed its sadness over the fire damage done to a nearly 600-year-old Ottoman era mosque in Greece. 

A fire during restoration works has caused serious damage to a historic 15th century Ottoman mosque in Didymoteicho, northeastern Greece, local officials said on March 22.

"For the moment there is no indication that arson was involved," Nathanail Rigas, head fireman of the Thrace region bordering Turkey, told AFP.

As authorities seek to improve living conditions for migrants at reception centers around the country amid forecasts of another cold snap later this week, a 20-year-old Afghan man died of hypothermia early on Tuesday after crossing the Evros River in northern Greece.