Striking Greek public school teachers marched in protest through central Athens on Wednesday as tensions grow between labor organizations and the center-right government over workers’ rights.
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Dozens of members of a Greek dockworkers’ union have blocked the loading of a container of ammunition destined for Israel in protest against the Gaza war, coast guard and union officials told Reuters on Friday.
Doctors and nurses working at Greece’s public hospitals were on strike on Thursday and their unions held a protest march from the Health Ministry to Parliament in central Athens in demand of more staff hirings and better salaries.
Pro-Palestinian campaigners protested at the gates of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus on Sunday, accusing Britain of offering tacit support to Israel’s ongoing operations in Gaza and elsewhere.
Police have detained 22 people at the National Technical University of Athens after researcher staged a protest at an event marking European Researchers’ Night.
MPs from the New Left, a minor opposition party, staged a small protest outside Parliament on Wednesday, condemning Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and the escalation in Lebanon, while expressing dismay over the Greek government’s support for Tel Aviv.
The 11th anniversary of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas’ murder will be commemorated on Wednesday with a gathering in Keratsini, Piraeus, where Fyssas was fatally stabbed by a member of the neo-Nazi group Golden Dawn.
At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, students now must receive approval from the administration before they can protest.
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Istanbul on Sunday to protest recent legislation that critics say is leading to the killing of stray dogs across Turkey.
A brief clash between protesters and police in Syntagma Square early Saturday afternoon resulted in 33 people being detained, police said.
Police in Athens have banned two rallies called for Sunday on Syntagma Square by the Community of Special Forces Reserves and Constitutional National Assembly/Direct Democracy.
Greece’s film industry received a massive jolt this week, after the directors and producers of 20 movies decided to withdraw their entries from the process overseen by the Ministry of Culture for selecting the film that will represent Greece at the 2025 Oscars.
The union representing public hospital workers, POEDIN, has called a 24-hour strike on Monday and is organizing a protest rally at 11 a.m. on downtown Athens’ Syntagma Square.
Turkish police scuffled with protesters in the capital Ankara on Friday during a demonstration against plans to round up millions of stray dogs.
Amberin Zaman, Al-Monitor’s chief correspondent covering major stories on the Middle East and North Africa, joins me to look into the protests that rocked Armenia over the past few months, and break down what’s at stake in the region as Azerbaijan – backed by Turkey – continues to demand further concessions from Armenia.
A Turkish parliamentary commission has approved a bill aimed at regulating the country’s large stray dog population, a move that has raised concerns among animal rights advocates who fear many of the dogs would be killed or end up in neglected and overcrowded shelters.
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