🔴 During the G20 meeting Erdogan says Turkey cant afford more "refugees", proposes a working group focused on immigration, led by Turkey. Ylva Johansson was in Turkey on the same day to discuss things such as immigration with Turkey's interior minister
>https://archive.is/2d9dm

🔸 Erdogan: "Turkey can not afford a new wave of migrants from Afghanistan, which would affect European countries"

🔸 Finally, Erdogan proposed the creation of a working group on immigration, presided by Turkey, in the context of the next G20, whose rotating presidency will be assumed by Indonesia

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Greek Bronze hydria (water jar), 4th century BC.

The relief shows a winged Eros arranging his hair in a mirror. He leans on a small statue of a woman. It imitates the rigid stance and stiff drapery found on Archaic figures of the sixth century BC.

🔴 Pontian singer Achilleas Vassiliadis labeled as "Persona non Grata" by Turkey and was stopped from entering Turkey
>https://archive.is/M1qUW

🔸 On Wednesday morning, the Turkish authorities did not allow the well-known Pontian singer Achilleas Vassiliadis to enter Turkish territory, informing him that he is included in the list of "undesirables"

🔸 Since the beginning of 2020, the Turkish authorities have banned six more Greek citizens from entering the country related to the culture, letters and tradition of the Greeks of Pontus. Some of the people were also told by the Turkish authorities that many more Greeks have been banned

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🔴 Pakistani television announced the celebration of Eid Milan-un-Nabi (birth of the Prophet) in downtown Athens on Sunday (October 17th
>https://archive.is/ptqwY

🔸 The religious procession will start from Kotzia Square and will end at Syntagma Square

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🟢 Meanwhile Orthodox celebrations are subjected to "restrictions" by the state and many of them are not authorized and the natives end up deprived of their rights while muslims have every possible privilege and right they could probably ask for

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🔴 Video shows a large group of illegal immigrants inside Greece, in the region of the Rhodopes Mountains
>https://archive.is/ryKym

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🟢 Recently, most illegal crossings of the Greek border are not by sea as in 2015, instead they happen by land, most recorded cases are at the Greek-Turkish border, while more recently several large groups have been spotted crossing the borders through mountainous areas at the Greek-Bulgarian border since patrolling some of these regions with a large force is very hard and there is also less border security such as cameras, walls, barbed wires and other obstacles such as at the Turkish border

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Byzantine panel with a Griffin, 1250–1300

This image of a griffin with its head turned and its wing flexed is a fine example of monumental stone carving of the Late Byzantine era. The panel worked in low relief resembles an elaborate Byzantine silk in its arrangement of the creature within a roundel. Greek crosses at the midpoint of the border on all four sides. Christians of this era still considered the mythical griffins to be guardian figures, often of the dead, & symbols of power & authority, thanks in part to their legendary role in the life of Alexander the Great.

Possibly, the panel was part of a tomb similar to those known from northern Greece that were carved in a style influential in Serbia & the Balkans. On tombs griffins may have meant both to protect the people buried within & to symbolize their royal lineage. The fleurs-de-lis on the griffin's shoulder & haunch typify the era's complex cultural interplay as similar motifs are found in contemporary Islamic & Crusader depictions of animals.

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🔴 After Turkey's recent move to reopen Farmagusta, Cyprus responded with a briefing of the UN Security Council
>https://archive.is/bfFb8
>https://archive.is/seYrA

🔸 The Cypriot FM stated that the actions of Turkey both in the area of Famagusta and on the sea of the Republic of Cyprus within the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Cyprus, aim, among other things, to promote another form of solution to the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, "something which neither we nor the international community can accept or even discuss"

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🔴 Egyptian sources reported that Turkey is negotiating the sales of weapons to Morocco and Ethiopia, something that might increase the tension between Turkey and Egypt, who also requested that the U.S and European countries try to freeze such Turkish deals
>https://archive.is/ZtEZ9

🔸 Two sources in the Egyptian security forces said that Cairo - which is in conflict with Addis Ababa - has asked the US and some European countries to help freeze any agreement

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🔴 Merkel and Erdogan discussed Turkey's EU accession process, immigration and Turkey's role on NATO
>https://archive.is/rVt7T

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