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27May

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Europe, Greece

European parliament's oldest deputy left-wing icon,

NOVANEWS Manolis Glezos Posted by: Richard Reilly From the Guardian (UK): Manolis Glezos, the new European parliament's oldest deputy, is a 92-year-old second world war hero, leftwing icon, inveterate writer and indefatigable activist. On Monday, he added another feather to his cap, winning more votes (105,184) than any other Euro parliamentarian on Greece's 21-MEP ticket. He doesn't tweet, doesn't type and insists on taking an afternoon nap every day – a legacy of being exiled and imprisoned for 16 years for his views. "That way I get two days out of one," he once told the Guardian. "I start at 7am stop at 3pm, start again at 5pm and go all the way through to midnight. I get a tremendous amount done." Famous for ripping down the swastika from the Acropolis within days of ...

24Feb

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Greece

Greeks look to strip immunity from neo-Nazi lawmakers

NOVANEWS All 18 MPs from Golden Dawn could face charges if parliament grants prosecutors’ wish Ed note—now, in the interest of heading off any and all screeching and kvetching on the part of those intellectually-numb WNs who will inevitably fill the comments section of TUT with the obligatory HOW DARE YOU…GOLDEN DAWN IS NOT NEO-NAZI…WHAT KIND OF WEBSITE RELIES ON JEWISH INFORMATION IN DEFAMING A GROUP LIKE GOLDEN DAWN WITH THE ACCUSATION OF BEING NEO NAZI??!!’ we will merely quote Nikolaos Michaloliakos, the group’s leader in an article published by the Greek newspaper Iefimerida– “We are the faithful soldiers of the National Socialist idea and 42 years later, with our thought and soul given to the last great battle, with our thought and soul given to the black and red banners, with our...

15Jan

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Greece

Two more Golden Dawn MPs jailed in Greece

NOVANEWS Three other of the 18 Golden Dawn members of parliament, among them the leader Nikos Michaloliakos, are already behind bars Anti-terror police officers escort Nikos Michaloliakos, leader of the Golden Dawn party at the courthouse in Athens, Greece, 02 October 2013. Photo: ORESTIS PANAGIOTOU/EPA Two Golden Dawn MPs have been placed in pre-trial detention in Athens in an ongoing crackdown against the Greek far right group, court officials said. Giorgos Germenis and Panayiotis Iliopoulos have previously been charged with joining and directing a criminal organisation. Another politician, Stathis Boukouras, who faces the same charges, also appeared before magistrates but his fate regarding jail will be decided on Sunday. Three other of the 18 Golden Dawn members of...

26Nov

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Greece

WHO apologizes for claiming Greeks infect themselves with HIV

NOVANEWS The World Health Organization has corrected a mistake in a document that claims that Greeks have been intentionally contracting HIV for receive benefits. World Bulletin / News Desk The World Health Organization has apologized for an error in a report that claimed that half of people suffering from HIV in Greece inflict the disease on themselves to receive benefits. The WHO corrected the error, found on the 112th page of a report that can still be found on the WHOwebsite. They have corrected the error, saying: “The sentence should read: ‘half of the new HIV cases are self-injecting and out of them few are deliberately inflicting the virus’.” The report, which notes a rise in HIV cases in Greece in the past 5 years, refers to a case back in 2011 in which it was revealed that some...

26Nov

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Greece, Turkey

Turks in Greece denied right to speak Turkish

Turks native to western Thrace in Greece are being told that they cannot speak Turkish. World Bulletin / News Desk To commemorate 90 years since the Treaty of Lausanne, Muslim Turks in western Thrace, Greece, held a two day conference called the Muslim Children Education Program on November 22-23 in the mainly Turkish city of Gumulcine (Komotini). However, the conference was marred on the first day when a guest speaker was refused the right to address the audience in his mother-tongue Turkish. This is the third such incident this month, after a coach and football players in Iskece (Xanthi), another city with a big Turkish population, was forbidden from speaking Turkish among themselves and their families during games. Turks were also forbidden from speaking Turkish at the Gumulcine stat...

10Nov

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Greece intercepts mystery ship with 20,000 Kalashnikovs onboard

NOVANEWS Reuters / Yiorgos Karahalis The Greek Coastguard has intercepted a Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship with around 20,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles on board. The intended destination of the vessel, halted near the Imia islets in the eastern Aegean, remains unknown. The cargo ship Nour M, intercepted on Thursday night, was taken to the island of Symi the following morning under the escort of Coastguard vessels, where it was soon thereafter led to the island of Rhodes. The vessel’s Turkish captain and seven crew members, two of whom were Turkish and five of whom were Indian, were placed under arrest, coastguard sources told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA). The cargo was both larger than that declared on the ship’s manifest, and the ship did not have the proper UN documen...

20Oct

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Greece

Golden Dawn MP Kasidiaris Slaps Female From Rival Party On Live TV

NOVANEWS ed note–we here at TUT are oftentimes on the receiving end of emails from people supporting Golden Dawn. Our position on them is that the verdict is out, as we don’t yet know what to make of them. Certainly any nationalist-minded party trying to expose organized Jewish interests is a good thing, provided they are on the up and up and are smart about how they do it. However, it is and has been our position that much of the behavior taking place on the part of GD or its members, particularly the violence against immigrants and Muslims–only serves one interest in this, and that of course is the Jews. By such behavior what GD is doing is to give Jewish interests credibility in painting all those who oppose them as violent thugs and this has played an indispensable role in the recen...

2Oct

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Greece is starting to look like Weimar Germany

NOVANEWS By Daniel Hannan World Nikolaos Michaloliakos, leader of Golden Dawn (Photo: AFP/GETTY) Economic woes have led to the rise of Golden Dawn and provoked a crisis of democracy Economic collapse, mass joblessness, uniformed paramilitaries, street violence, political assassinations and, now, a round-up of opposition MPs. Euro-wracked Greece is beginning to feel eerily like Weimar Germany. The beleaguered Athens government has arrested five deputies and 15 other activists from the fascist party Golden Dawn, including the leader, Nikolaos Michaloliakos. The Greek constitution prohibits the outright banning of political parties, but the authorities have got around that by classing Golden Dawn as a criminal organisation and linking it to the murder 11 days ago of a Leftist musician....

28Sep

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Clashes break out in Athens anti-fascist rally

NOVANEWS Polls show Golden Dawn’s popularity waning in week following the stabbing of an anti-fascist rapper Times of Israel Clashes broke out during an anti-fascist demonstration in Athens on Wednesday, a week after a fatal stabbing allegedly committed by a supporter of the extreme right-wing Golden Dawn party led to a nationwide crackdown against the group. About 30 protesters threw firebombs, rocks and bottles at riot police blocking the main avenue in front of Golden Dawn headquarters as a demonstration of several thousand people headed toward it. Police responded with volleys of tear gas and stun grenades. The killing of anti-fascist rap singer Pavlos Fyssas on Sept. 18 sparked outrage across Greece and has led to scrutiny of the party’s activities. The suspect arrested over his dea...

26Sep

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Greek army, police probed over links to neo-Nazi party

NOVANEWS Supporters of the extreme-right Golden Dawn party hold flares as they chant the national anthem, during a rally over the crisis in Cyprus, outside the German embassy in Athens March 22, 2013. (Reuters / John Kolesidis) Greece’s army is being accused of helping to train the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party’s paramilitary wing. The revelation comes as top policemen have been fired after the murder of a left-wing activist by a Golden Dawn fan provoked mass protests. Greek media first started publishing stories detailing the involvement of the country’s elite forces in training its most controversial neo-fascist organization, which is allegedly linked to large-scale racial violence against immigrants in the wake of the country’s economic meltdown. Greek Defense Minister Dimitris Avramopo...