Icaria

Greek authorities launched a large-scale search operation on the northern Aegean island of Ikaria on Tuesday to find a British woman who was reported missing by her partner, according to a local news website.

Property owners with homes or plots of land in Kastoria, Florina, Drama, Xanthi and Halkidiki or on the islands of Samos, Icaria and Chios have until May 30 to declare their assets on the online land register.

The assets can either be registered at local or regional land registry offices or online at www.ktimatologio.gr

The head of Greece's Earthquake Planning and Protection Organisation (EPPO), Geology Professor Efthimios Lekkas, responded to the assertion of SYRIZA MP Yannis Tsironis that the island of Kastelorizo is "as Greek as can be" but is "not in the Aegean Sea" but rather in the Eastern Mediterranean.

As they had done on many previous occasions, the men of Aghios Kyrikos left the warmth of the cafe and headed to the waterfront of the eastern Aegean island of Icaria's port capital to watch a fishing boat disappearing into the distance. It was a wintry day and the small wooden boat was sailing into choppy seas with winds of up to 7 Beaufort.

Retired British judge Catriona Jarvis remembers getting a phone call from friends who were holidaying on the Greek island of Icaria in 2014, asking for help when the body of a young man washed up on the beach where they were having a meal at a taverna.

The general secretariat of the Interior Ministry's Civil Protection issued an alert over a high risk of fire on Thursday for the islands of the north and south Aegean.

The alert concerns the islands of Samos, Ikaria and the Dodecanese.

Authorities have issued fire warnings for Saturday on the islands of Icaria, Chios and Samos in the eastern Aegean, the Dodecanese chain in the southeastern Aegean and Crete.

This is the second time so far this summer that a fire warning has been issued, after one in June for the Ionian islands and parts of the Peloponnese.

The souring atmosphere in Greek-Turkish relations was fuelled again by the outspoken Defense Minister Panos Kammenos on Wednesday who slammed the neighbouring country for its continued provocations and called for vigilance towards "an opponent who continues to provoke."

A 52-year-old crew member of the Nissos Myconos ferry sustained serious leg injuries when the ship's rope broke during the process of the vessel's departure from Ikaria island, in the eastern Aegean, late on Thursday.

At the time of the accident there were particularly strong winds at the Ikaria port of Aghios Kirykos. The seaman was on board when he got injured.

Greek and Turkish F-16s engaged in three mock dogfights east of the island of Rhodes in the southeastern Aegean yesterday. The dogfights occurred within the space of 10 minutes from 2.50 to 3 p.m. 

In total, 10 Turkish F-16 jets - four of them armed - and two CN-235 transport aircraft entered Greek national airspace 30 times.