Mediterranean

No classes will be held Wednesday at Thessaloniki's Aristotle University, its governing council has decided.

Twelve university students were among the 57 victims of last Tuesday's railway crash. Another 26 students were injured.

The state university is Greece's largest, with over 51,000 students.

In Mersin's Erdemli district, a painting activity was organized in order to reduce the traumatizing effect of the earthquakes on quake survivor children.

Following the earthquakes which left Türkiye in mourning, Mersin is one of the cities that received the highest number of migrants with tens of thousands of quake survivors coming to Erdemli, a tourism district.

A sample from a Byzantine-era wall found at Thessaloniki's under-construction Venizelos metro station sits under the microscope at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki's Laboratory of Building Materials.

Many retired Germans spend winter in the southern province of Antalya's coastal districts to "save money," citing increasing natural gas prices in their country.

The world's first factory to produce the new third-generation photovoltaics, which can deliver electricity from almost anywhere the sun shines, will be created in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, as part of a major European project.

With 125,000 tourists, the southern province of Antalya has broken its record of all time in terms of the number of tourists visiting the city in the first 15 days of the year, while sector representatives also expect the tourist record to be broken in January.

New legislation put to public consultation on Saturday seeks to wean five of Greece's top state museums, including the archaeological museums of Athens and Thessaloniki, from the Culture Ministry, giving them more freedom - and responsibility.

The Ambassador of Israel to Greece Noam Katz and the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) condemned the latest defacing of a mural in Thessaloniki marking the deportation of the city's Jewish community to Nazi death camps.

A mural marking the deportation of Thessaloniki's Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II has been defaced for a second time, the community group that commissioned it said.

Within the scope of a restoration and landscaping project implemented by the Culture and Tourism Ministry, the wall paintings that were previously unearthed in the St. Nicholas Museum in the southern province of Antalya's Demre district are getting a retouch.

New murals from the 11th century were also unearthed during the work at the museum.