Kathimerini

Riot police protest by refusing stadium duty after colleague’s injury

Riot police officers (MAT) protested on Thursday by initially refusing to take their positions outside the Panathenaic Stadium for the Panathinaikos soccer match against the Israeli soccer team Maccabi Haifa. Updated information, however, indicates that they will be present outside the stadium during the match.

Erdogan’s points

The new tone adopted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his interview with Kathimerini is positive, as he talks about a "new page" in relations with Greece and the benefits to both countries, while stating that we should not allow the issues on which we disagree to cause tension and contention between our governments and people.

Preparing for Erdogan’s visit to Athens

Athens will take center stage on Thursday as Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits Greece's capital to meet with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis amid a sense of reserved optimism. Tom Ellis, the editor in chief of Kathimerini's English Edition, joins Thanos Davelis to break down what we should look out for ahead of Erdogan's visit to Athens. 

A modern retelling of Oedipus and a retrospective

Marisha Triantafyllidou and Argyris Xafis star in "Music," an award-winning film by Angela Schanelec, whose work is the subject of a retrospective at the Greek Film Archive, on December 7-12. "Music" is loosely based on the ancient Greek myth of Oedipus and was shot almost entirely in the Peloponnese, with a Greek crew and cast members.

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