The European Council decided to postpone the special meeting planned for September 24 and 25 to discuss sanctions against Turkey just minutes after Turkey announced a new NAVTEX that violates Greece’s maritime…
Tag: AEGEAN
Turkey has just announced a new NAVTEX (Navigational Telex) around the northern Aegean island of Lemnos, Ahval reported. NAVTEX is a maritime communications system that allows ships to inform other vessels about…
A sailor reflecting on the Greek Limnos ship ramming and significantly damaging the Turkish Navy’s Kemal Reis flagship on August 12, when the latter violated Greece’s territorial waters, said that “we gave…
With the gradual return of the fleet to the Salamis naval base after the largest mobilization in the modern history of the Greek Navy, we can calmly estimate that this crisis finally…
The French Embassy in Cyprus said it all in its tweet earlier by accusing the Turks of playing one member of the EU (implying Greece) against another (implying Cyprus). One cannot play…
Stefanos Karavidas, a retired pilot, analysed the capabilities of the French-made Rafale fighter jet that Greece will acquire and highlighted that the Greek Air Force has a “culture of victory.” Karavidas served…
ESTIA, the oldest newspaper in Greece still in circulation, had a headline claiming that Germany wants Greece to demilitarise its islands close to Turkey. “Berlin is pushing Athens for the demilitarization of…
Greek Minister of National Defense, Nikos Panagiotopoulos, spoke in an interview with Nea Savvatokyriako about tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean with Turkey, as well as the new armament program of the Armed…
Some of you have certainly heard about the conflict between Greece and Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean. But what is it about? First things first, the biggest issue of dispute is about…
Turkey is the only country that refers to and demands the demilitarisation of the eastern Aegean islands. With regard to the militarisation of the islands in the Eastern Aegean, various international agreements…
A former Secretary General of the so-called Turkish Ministry of National Defense claimed that Greece does not have sovereignty over several Aegean islands, such as Chios and Lesvos, and must evacuate them.…
Italy and Spain were certainly countries that were indifferent to Turkey’s aggression against Greece that began in November 2019 when Ankara signed an illegal maritime deal with the Muslim Brotherhood Government of…
For weeks, Greece and Turkey have been facing off in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, raising fears that a dispute between two NATO allies could turn into a full-blown regional crisis, CNN reported.…
According to diplomatic sources, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a telephone conversation with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Monday. Among the topics discussed were matters related to the Eastern Mediterranean and Cyprus.…
Greek Minister of Civil Protection, Michalis Chrysochoidis, called on illegal immigrants to go to the new structures that were erected following the burning of their accommodation on the island of Lesvos, to…
The revelations of the German artist, photographer and activist, Rebecca Somer, about the sad events that unfolded at the Moria migrant camp in Lesvos last week are shocking, Thestival reported. Somer is one…
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has confidently said that he does not believe the European Union will sanction Turkey for its violation of Greek and Cypriot maritime space and Continental shelves for…
New statement shave been made Turkey’s so-called Minister of Defense, Hulusi Akar, who is in Antifellos (Αντίφελλος, Turkish: Kaş), located directly opposite Kastellorizo, and described Greeks as “friends” but continued Turkey’s demand’s…
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou referred to the difficult period that the people of Kastellorizo are going through due to Turkish provocations in the East Mediterranean. “Kastellorizo is a precious part of our…
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis sent multiple messages to Turkey during a press conference at the Thessaloniki International Fair. He emphasised that any discussion of demilitarising Greece’s islands will receive a categorical Oxi…