Marking 52 years since the fall of military rule, Konstantinos Tasoulas said Greece’s democratic stability rests on political restraint, consensus over the country’s international direction and national cohesion.

The assassination of the CIA’s station chief in Athens by ‘Revolutioary Organization November 17’ inaugurated the 27-year trail of blood left by Europe’s longest-lived terrorist group

The digitization of the Diplomatic and Historical Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs opens new horizons. Tens of thousands of files relating to the dictatorship period and the 1955–1960 five-year span are being catalogued. These are expected to shed light on unknown aspects of the Cyprus issue.

In November 1973, Athens erupted as students and citizens defied the dictatorship. What followed was a night of gunfire, tanks, and tragedy. This is the full story of the junta’s violent crackdown, reconstructed from contemporary reports and eyewitness accounts.

On July 23, the military regime led by Dimitrios Ioannidis crumbled under the pressure of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.