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The Greek authorities arrested a 52-year-old gynecologist in the northern suburbs of Attica following a notification from the American organization NCMEC and Google regarding the possession and distribution of digital material of child pornography. #ΠοινικόΔίκαιο #ΠαιδικήΚακοποίηση #Cybersafety (translated)

Nikolas Moraitis wrote that he admired the simple and direct language of Dionysis Charitopoulos and characterized him as a great writer. He added that Greece owed him the restoration of historical truth, as, according to him, through his study and the book "Aris: the leader of the irregulars," he had refuted the propaganda of the right’s underground for the National Resistance. Quoting an excerpt from Charitopoulos's work, Moraitis mentioned that the author accused official Greece of having hidden or defamed the resistance movement for years and that former fighters of ELAS and their families faced social and state stigma. Charitopoulos, according to the excerpt, also described a multi-year effort to distort the facts and argued that EAM was the greatest epic of modern Greek history. The same text cited words from Panagiotis Kanellopoulos regarding the National Resistance. #ΔιονύσηςΧαριτόπουλος #ΕλληνικήΙστορία #Αντίσταση (translated)

Maria Kalantzi used derogatory terms for a man she presented as supportive of Hamas and asked how many times he had taken a public stance on occupied Cyprus, the Turkish invasion, and the ongoing occupation. She also asked how many times he had raised the Greek flag and defended national issues. The post was shared by Nikos Sotiriopoulos. https://t.co/nCTiw2MwDt #Κύπρος #Ελλάδα #ΕθνικάΖητήματα (translated)

At the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE in Andorra, Greek Cypriot MPs accused Turkey of occupying territory in Cyprus, with Turkish MP Ali Oztunç responding that the presence of the Turkish army aims to maintain peace, referring to "massacres" against Turkish Cypriots before 1974. #Κυπριακό #ΟΑΣΕ #Τουρκία (translated)

The author of the post wondered how long Turkish provocations would be tolerated and argued that Europe should not respond with silence. He stated that Cyprus remains under Turkish occupation and that Greece and Cyprus are facing a challenge that concerns security, not just a regional issue. https://t.co/yPBXHuaI2u #Κύπρος #Ελλάδα #Ασφάλεια #GR #CY #TR (translated)

FLORENTIA challenged a post about Drama and Serres, which, as she wrote, mentioned 300,000 dead Muslims, coercion of survivors to convert to Christianity, and concealment of events from Europe for 80 years. She characterized these claims as unhistorical and cited the Ottoman census of 1906/1907, according to which the total Muslim population of the Sanjak of Serres, which included Drama, was below 175,000. Regarding the period of the Second Balkan War, in June and July 1913, she stated that the cities were under Bulgarian occupation. She referenced a report by the Carnegie Foundation from 1914, which, as she claimed, recorded that the retreating Bulgarians burned more than 4,000 houses in Serres and killed hundreds of Greek civilians. She added that the Greek Army stopped the destruction and that, based on records from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it had guaranteed by proclamation the safety, property, and religious freedom of all residents. According to her, the Muslims who remained in Macedonia retained their religious rights and their mosques until the Population Exchange. FLORENTIA also stated that, according to the Treaty of Lausanne, approximately 350,000–400,000 Muslims were organized and peacefully relocated from Greece to Turkey. She countered that the number of 1.5 million referred to Greeks from Asia Minor and Pontus, whom, as she wrote, were violently displaced or exterminated by the Young Turks and the Kemalist regime. She concluded by arguing that turning tourist destinations into tools of hatred through false claims and distortion of historical evidence constituted a new practice. #Ιστορία #Δράμα #Σέρρες (translated)

Nikolas Markatos, a journalist at "VIMA," explains to Giannis Th. Diamantis how the nuclear landscape has formed, why the possession of nuclear weapons remains a powerful negotiating tool, and how likely it is that the club of nuclear powers will expand in the future. #Πυρηνικά #ΔιεθνείςΣχέσεις #Podcast (translated)

In the episode of the podcast "To Vima Simera," Nikos Markatos and Giannis Th. Diamantis analyze the state of nuclear disarmament and the significance of nuclear weapons as negotiating tools, examining questions regarding their possession and proliferation among states. #Πυρηνικά #ΔιεθνείςΣχέσεις #Podcast (translated)

The 51-year-old monk of the Holy Cross Monastery of Saint Neophytus remains under detention, accused of attempted murder and illegal possession of a weapon, with the court rejecting a request for release and setting a new hearing date for October 26. #Κύπρος #ΑγιοςΝεόφυτος #ΠοινικόΔικαστήριο (translated)

Amalia presented a highly classified British report titled "Greek Security Battalions," numbered PIC/263/21 and PIC PAPER No 55, which, according to her, was sent to the Allied headquarters in the Middle East by an officer signing as "Colonel Chris" on July 18, 1944. Amalia assessed that the author was likely Chris Woodhouse. According to her presentation, the report stated that few Greeks willingly collaborated with the occupying forces and that their motivations were primarily self-interest, survival, or ambition. It also noted that, despite the impending departure of the Germans, the Security Battalions were reinforced after spring 1944, and their clashes with ELAS became more intense. Amalia interpreted this point as an indication that the Battalions aimed to prevent the communists from prevailing after the Germans' withdrawal. The report, as she described it, categorized the members of the Battalions into poor individuals who enlisted for survival, criminal elements, volunteers antagonistic to EAM/ELAS, anti-communist officers, and members of other organizations that had been attacked by ELAS. As an example, she mentioned 200 members of EKKA who joined the Battalions in Patras after the disbandment of the 5/42 Regiment in April 1944. Amalia stated that the author of the report negatively assessed the military actions of the Battalions, as they participated in German attacks against ELAS, but considered that some of their officers were capable. Politically, the report presented them as useful to some of the Greeks because they hindered the dominance of EAM and described three options for the Cairo government: support for EAM/ELAS, tacit support for the Battalions, or condemnation of both sides. The third option, according to Amalia, was considered to have the greatest likelihood of uniting moderate forces. The report concluded, as she wrote, that the actions of the Battalions and of EAM/ELAS were equally terroristic. #ΤάγματαΑσφαλείας #Ελλάδα #Ιστορία (translated)

Father Dionysios reported before the Court suspicious activities at the Monastery of Abbacum, as well as the admission of guilt by the Abbot Nektarios, amid allegations of conspiracy and illegal possession of property, while the proceedings will continue in 2026. #ΜονήΑββακούμ #Δικαστήριο #Κύπρος (translated)

John Vatatzes wrote that the Tsar of the Bulgarians, Samuel, had built, approximately 1,000 years ago, the church of Saint Achilles on an islet in Little Prespa and that the lakes of Ohrid and Prespa were in the heart of his kingdom. He mentioned that Professor Nikolaos Moutsopoulos had found the bones of Samuel in 1965 on Greek soil and that they were kept in Thessaloniki. According to Vatatzes, Greece was asking Bulgaria to return thousands of relics and manuscripts that, he claimed, had been looted from monasteries in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace during the occupation of the area in 1917. He also noted that the Treaty of Neuilly provided for their return and that in 2014, during the premiership of Antonis Samaras, it had been agreed to return approximately 2,000 relics, without Greece agreeing to relinquish the rest. He himself accused Kyriakos Mitsotakis of giving Bulgaria the bones of Samuel in 2026, which he described as being of inestimable historical and ideological value to the Bulgarians, in exchange for just 48 relics. He compared the move to Alexis Tsipras's concession of the name Macedonia in 2018 and argued that Greece had now lost its bargaining tool for the return of the remaining relics. #Ελλάδα #Ιστορία #Μακεδονία (translated)

Amalia wrote that Major Panagiotis Stoupas, originally from Lefki Messinia, had participated in the Asia Minor Campaign and in the Greco-Italian War. According to her post, during the Occupation, he created a resistance group in mountainous Trifylia and later joined the national resistance organization "Greek Army" (ES). Amalia mentioned that, following attacks by ELAS and with the intervention of British Major Harrington, the leaders of the ES signed on August 29, 1943, the Dyrrachium Pact, which stipulated the dissolution of the organization and the integration of its members into ELAS. She argued that those who had joined national resistance organizations were at risk, if captured by ELAS, of being forced to join them or be killed. According to her, Stoupas disagreed with the agreement and returned to Lefki. On October 10, 1943, strong ELAS forces surrounded the village, burned his house, and believed he had died, but he had escaped. Amalia wrote that later Stoupas joined the Security Battalions, as, in her estimation, thousands of other Greeks did. The post stated that Colonel Dionysios Papadogkonas, Stoupas's former commander, appointed him commander of the Security Battalion of Meligalas in March 1944. Amalia noted that after the ELAS attack on Meligalas, Stoupas moved to Gargalianoi with 100 men and was not in the city during the days of the massacre. After the collapse of the defense in Gargalianoi, he and his men retreated to Pylos. According to Amalia, when ELAS surrounded Pylos on September 24, local authorities sought a surrender agreement, while ELAS promised that there would be no massacres. She wrote that Stoupas accepted the agreement and committed suicide with his pistol at the castle gate, after saying goodbye to his men. She also cited the post-war testimony of Chris Woodhouse, who, she reported, conveyed words from British journalist Richard Capell in favor of choosing the Security Battalions instead of ELAS. #ιστορία #Ελλάδα #πατριωτισμός (translated)

Cynaegeirus_Exp wrote that Greece did well to return the bones and expressed his sorrow over the delay, stating that he did not know they were in the possession of the country. He added that only Achilles had kept a dead body and that he returned it out of shame and with honors, while concluding that above all, they are Greeks. #Ελλάδα #Αχιλλέας #ιστορία (translated)

European Commissioner Adja Lambib stated that the situation in the city of Olesky in Ukraine under Russian occupation is horrific, as citizens are trapped without access to basic needs, and she called on Russia to provide humanitarian aid. #Ουκρανία #Ρωσία #ΑνθρωπιστικήΒοήθεια (translated)

🔴Stefanos Sarafis: "Commander of ELAS, by spitting." 🔴As I have emphasized many times, immediately after the German attack against the USSR, Stalin instructed the communist parties of the occupied countries to organize guerrilla warfare, primarily to harass the Germans, forcing them to maintain strong military forces in these countries, which, otherwise, would have been transferred to the eastern front. 🔴In Greece, a secondary objective of EAM - ELAS was to monopolize the guerrilla movement, to be the only armed force in the country after liberation, and to seize power by force. For this reason, according to G. Papandreou, the tactic was as follows: "It does not allow anyone else to rise to the mountains and fight the occupier. It punishes with death the Greeks who fulfill their patriotic duty. A former example is the present colonel Sarafis..." 🔴So, let's talk about Colonel Sarafis, who was made head of ELAS. He was born in 1890 in Trikala, graduated from the Non-Commissioned Officers School and became a second lieutenant in 1913. He sided with the Venizelists and actively participated in the failed military movements of 1933 and 1935. 🔴During the occupation and after discussions with various individuals about creating a resistance organization, a five-member committee was formed (Sarafis, Grigoriadis, Panopoulos, Chatzimpeis and Simos Vlachos), which evolved into the AAA Organization (3A, Struggle – Restoration – Independence). With the approval of the others, Sarafis went to Thessaly to form a guerrilla unit. 🔴After contacts he made there, he moved to Epirus, where on February 7, 1943, he met with Zervas and the representative of the Middle East Command, Colonel Eddie Myers, and they agreed to form guerrilla groups, with three sections: Epirus, led by Zervas; Thessaly, led by Sarafis; and Roumeli, led by Psarros. 🔴As soon as the news spread in Thessaly, EAM considered that with Sarafis’s reputation in the area, he could become a very dangerous opponent. Thus, initially, the mechanism of his moral extermination was put into operation, with the accusations that he was "a collaborator of the Italians" and "a man of the occupied prefect of Trikala." After the slanders did not succeed, EAM decided to take more drastic measures. 🔴After a trap, they treacherously captured him and other armed leaders, as well as 150 guerrillas who followed them. Ultimately, EAM decided that it would be preferable to force him to join ELAS rather than kill him. So, they locked him in a dungeon, and following orders, ELAS guerrillas would pass in front of him, spit on him and label him a "traitor," to break his spirits. 🔴When faced with the dilemma of "ELAS or the grave," Sarafis preferred to save his life. Of course, the communists exploited his joining to convince other former officers who hesitated to join ELAS due to the bad reputation that accompanied him. Of course, the position they gave him, that of the military leader of ELAS, was more "decorative," as decisions were made by the "chief captain" Aris Velouchiotis and the political commissioner Andreas Tzimas. 🔴The results of recruiting officers were mediocre because it had become known how Sarafis was forced to join ELAS. It is historically recorded, the phrase of politician Georgios Kartalis to Sarafis: "You were made commander of ELAS by spitting." 🔴What would have been Sarafis's fate if the KKE had prevailed? There is no doubt that he would have met the same fate as all the "fellow travelers" of the communists around the world. In the first "cleansing," he would be labeled a "agent" and "enemy of the people" and would be taken to the firing squad! Specifically, Sarafis would certainly be labeled an "agent of the Intelligence Service," as he had married British archaeologist Marion Pascoe. 🔴The comments are yours! #Σαράφης #ΕΛΑΣ #Κατοχή (translated)

Eugene Kontorovich suggests in an interview that third countries should refer to the International Criminal Court against Turkey for the occupation and colonization of Cyprus, in light of the legal and procedural challenges that this initiative raises. #Κυπριακό #Τουρκία #ΔΠΔ (translated)