Cretan State

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos hailed on Sunday the vision and work of former Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos in a ceremony inaugurating a museum dedicated to the Cretan politician.

The building of the museum was the former residence of Eleftherios Venizelos which has been renovated, located at the suburb of Halepa, in the city of Chania, Crete.

Evagelos Venizelos exercised his right to vote at Thessaloniki and said exiting the polling station: “The Greek people will find what they are looking for and what they deserve by using their own efforts, their own work and through unity. All surveys show that people want all forces to be united. And I hope this to be ensured today. “

The number of troops dispatched to Bulgaria's borders will increase, according to Defense Minister Nikolay Nenchev.

In a Friday interview for bTV, Nenchev made clear that the military presence at the border was set to increase due to the unprecedented migration pressure.

Local residents who protested the construction of a 2,600-kilometer road project planned to connect upland areas in eight provinces in the Black Sea region have been comprehensively searched with trained dogs by gendarmerie forces in Rize province while heading to a local festival.

Turkish gendarmerie forces have trained a total of 12,000 staff and soldiers on how to combat violence against women in the past two years, one of the projects' leaders has said, adding they had distributed flyers in villages across the country to raise awareness and inform women of their rights as part of the project. 

Greek Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos was expected to meet with Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Friday.

The meeting was set to take place on the sidelines of the meeting of foreign ministers of BSEC member states.

“We do not have a problem with jihadists in Greece, but there is a problem in our wider area,” stated Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos met with representatives of American Jewish organizations in New York on Monday, the Foreign Ministery announced on Tuesday.

Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos has denied that Athens has been tipped of by American authorities about jihadis being trained in Greece or leaving the country to fight abroad.

Serbia "will know how to protect people, territory"

"Serbia will know how to protect its people and territory," Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić stated on Sunday during a visit to the Merdare base.