Greek police fire tear gas at protesting farmers threatening to blockade airport

Riot police fired tear gas Friday at farmers attempting to block the main access road to the international airport in ...
Neos Kosmos

“A big story to tell”: The lives of Holocaust survivor sisters from Thessaloniki to Melbourne

Carol Gordon and Gregoria Boursinos have released 'Maria and Lola: Stories of Survival', tracing the extraordinary journeys ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Thessaloniki breaks ground on new Holocaust museum

“The memory of this once-vibrant Greek Jewish community must never be erased,” said Stan Polovets, cofounder of the Genesis Prize, which is helping fund the museum. For half a millennium until the ...

Defying a government warning, Greek farmers block border crossings in wake of EU subsidy scandal

Farmers in northern Greece have blocked border crossings with North Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey as part of a growing protest over delays in farm subsidy payments.
Anadolu Agency

Greek farmers block Thessaloniki port amid nationwide protests about aid delays

Greek farmers blocked the Thessaloniki Port on Friday with tractors, agricultural vehicles and tour buses as part of ...
Le Monde.fr

Thessaloniki's slow awakening after the Greek crisis: 'Finally, our ordeal is almost over'

FeatureGreece's second-largest city, hard hit by the economic crisis of 2009-2018, is undergoing a revival with new infrastructure, making it a more pleasant place to live for residents and more ...
Anadolu Ajansi

Türkiye opens restored Ataturk House in Greece's Thessaloniki city

Türkiye’s Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy on Sunday inaugurated the restored Ataturk House in Thessaloniki, a Greek port city on the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, saying that paying ...
The Times of Israel

Vandals desecrate Holocaust memorial in Thessaloniki for the 4th time

The vandalized Holocaust memorial at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, December 27, 2022. (Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece via JTA) JTA — For at least the fourth time since ...
The Times of Israel

Jewish cemetery desecrated in Thessaloniki, Greece

Vandals broke into the Jewish cemetery in Thessaloniki, Greece, and desecrated several headstones there, the head of the local Jewish community said Friday. According to David Saltiel, who was quoted ...
Greek Reporter

Winter in Greece: A Traveler’s Guide to Visiting in the Cooler Months

Greece is known for its beautiful summers, but the country is equally stunning in the winter months -- you just need to know ...
BBC

Thessaloniki metro: Ancient dilemma for modern Greece

Rather than joy and excitement, the unearthing of what an academic called "a Byzantine Pompeii" at the heart of modern day Thessaloniki, Greece's second city, has caused bitter controversy in a ...
Arutz Sheva

Thessaloniki breaks ground on new Holocaust museum

For half a millennium until the Holocaust, the cosmopolitan city of Thessaloniki, Greece, had a unique claim to fame: It was Europe’s only major city with a Jewish majority. But the golden age of ...