Western Thrace

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will head to Thrace after his visit to Athens in early December, as he does every time he visits Greece, before returning to Ankara.

This will be the third time Erdogan will visit Thrace during a visit to Greece.

The 16th Quality Awards of Kathimerini's influential food magazine Gastronomos traveled to the border region of Evros this year.

The 16th Gastronomos Quality Awards event of Kathimerini's Gastronomos magazine expressed gratitude to Greeks harnessing their creative powers in the country's border regions. These producers and processors of fine Greek food were singled out and honored for 2023 by the magazine's team.

With the war in Ukraine on one side, and the outbreak of war in the Middle East on the other, Greece has become a strategic hub, and is practically the only reliable US partner in a region that is in constant turmoil. Whether it's the port of Alexandroupolis in northern Greece, or Souda Bay in the south, Greece's geopolitical value is becoming more and more tangible.

Türkiye has strongly condemned an attack on the Turkish minority's cemetery in Greece's western Thrace region over the weekend by unidentified persons.

The Evros fire in northeastern Greece has destroyed at least 808.7 square kilometers, an area larger than New York City, which occupies 778.2 square kilometers, making it the largest blaze in the EU since 2000, according to data from Copernicus' Emergency Management Agency.

The Evros wildfire, now in its 11th day, has destroyed an area larger than New York City, the European Union-backed Copernicus Climate Change Service has said.

View of a partially burned forest following a wildfire, near the village of Avantas in the region of Evros, northeastern Greece. Firefighters were working on three fronts on Tuesday to extinguish the fire blazing in Evros. The fire department's projection of a change in wind direction to the south is increasing concern of the risk of the flames approaching settlements.

Hundreds of Greek firefighters were battling a huge blaze on Monday that has killed at least 20 people over the past 10 days, Europe's deadliest wildfire so far this summer as record-setting heatwaves unleash blazes across the continent.

More than 600 firefighters, including reinforcements from several European countries and backed by a fleet of water-dropping planes and helicopters, were battling three major wildfires in Greece Sunday, two of which have been raging for days.