RHODES, Greece -- Out on the eastern edges of the Aegean Sea, generations of nervous Greeks gazed at the nearby Turkish mainland wondering if heavily armed Turks would ever stream across.

A diplomatic firestorm has erupted between Israel and Turkey, with the Turkish occupation of northern Cyprus taking center ...

As Greece’s poorly equipped, indifferently trained Army fought 200,000 Italian regulars in the mountains of Epirus and Macedonia Little John, who had once been thought an Axis stooge, called for ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited a Greek village razed by Nazi troops during World War II. Steinmeier has nevertheless brushed off Greek calls for reparations over the Nazi occupation.

1919-22 - Greco-Turkish War - Greek invasion of Asia Minor prompted by the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War One is defeated by Turkish forces. 1924 - Greeks vote for the abolition of ...

It's finally slated to open in 2026 to commemorate the nearly 50,000 Greek Jews who were loaded onto cattle trucks in Thessaloniki and transported to Auschwitz during the Nazi occupation of Greece.

She saw uncles and cousins executed by the Nazis during the German occupation of Greece from 1941 to 1944. She also survived the Greek civil war that went on during World War II.

Greek leaders have revived a long-standing demand for war reparations stemming from Nazi Germany’s World War II occupation of Greece, during a visit by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier ...

But the museum, slated to open in 2026, won’t be just about the tragedy of the Holocaust. Exhibits and artifacts will tell the story of more than 2,300 years of Greek Jewish history in ...

The occupation started on March 12, 1938 and ended in April 1945. After the war, ... Bulgaria joined the Axis in 1941 and assisted the Germans in their occupation of Greece.

Cohen started by saying that “history is full of tragedies and the history of Greece is no exception.” The Italian and Nazi occupation of Greece from 1941 to 1944 still hovers over Greek society to ...