The plan for strengthening the Greek military with more professional personnel is in full swing starting in 2021. The decision to recruit 1,600 professional personnel in the Greek military was officially posted.…
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A 47-year-old sailor, having been infected with COVID-19, passed away today in the Nea Dimitriada area of Volos in Central Greece. According to E-Thessalia, the ambulance and police services were notified early…
A bank letter guaranteeing 40 million euros was submitted by the company that owns the Maersk Launceston cargo ship that collided into the Greek Naval Kallisto minesweeping ship on October 27. Since…
The Greek Navy has proposed purchasing the American Multi-Mission Surface Combatant (MMSC) frigates to continue boosting its ties with the United States and upgrade its fleet. According to Kathimerini, “the proposal is…
Turkey has once again been caught making fake news, this time after being embarrassed because they cannot find Greece’s “hidden” submarines in the East Mediterranean. On Tuesday afternoon, five Turkish CN-235 electronic…
The Battle of Salamis was one of the final battles in the second war between the Persian Empire led by King Xerxes and an alliance of Greek city-states. Salamis is an island…
Rear Admiral Alexandros Diakopoulos has resigned from his position as National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister. In an announcement, he said that the statement he made yesterday “caused confusion and created…
A newly released image of the damaged Turkish warship has been published today by Proto Thema. On August 12, things became tense when the Turkish Kemal Reis frigate that was escorting the…
Greek Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos had communication via radio with the captain of the Limnos frigate Lemnos, Lieutenant Ioannis Saliaris, Ethnos reported. The Minister of Defense congratulated the ship’s commander for his…
The gradual withdrawal of Turkish forces from the wider area of the southeastern Aegean continues as a number of Turkish warships have returned to the ports of Aksaz and Smyrni (Σμύρνη, Turkish:…
Former Greek Defence Minister Panagiotis “Panos” Kammenos posted an icon of Saint Nicholas with no caption or text on Twitter yesterday. pic.twitter.com/XTvjFSccuR — Panos Kammenos (@PanosKammenos) July 21, 2020 However Aris Roussinos,…
The Greek Navy was hacked by Iranians, IBM security researchers have recently uncovered in videos leaked online. The videos show the hackers using techniques to breach the accounts and systems of potential…
On this day in 1913, the Balkan League, consisting of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, utterly defeated the Ottoman Empire, nearly expelling the Turks entirely from Europe. Montenegro, the smallest country in…
The naval battle of Eressos is considered the first frontal naval battle by the Greek navy during the Greek Revolution of 1821. A battle against the intimidating two-wheeled ship of the Imperial…
“Huge exercise in the Eastern Mediterranean! Intimidation of the enemy.” This was the headline of Turkish pro-Erdoğan Daily Sabah. They never specifically mentioned Greece, but when they are referring to an “enemy”…
Dramatic footage has emerged of a Greek coastguard ship blocking Turkish coastguard ships and illegal immigrants from entering Greece’s maritime waters near the Aegean island of Lesvos. According to a statement by…
The old adage “it’s a man’s world” does not apply to Lefkada-native Eirini Argyrou, the first female in Greek history to be appointed to the position of Port Authority Chief, in Chios…
On Sep 22, 480 BC the battle in the Greco-Persian Wars was fought. Battle of Salamis was one of the final battles in the second war between the Persian Empire led by King Xerxes and…
Greece’s navy authorities announced that “Military material” has gone missing from a naval facility on the Greek island of Leros. According to reports, anti-tank missiles, ammunition, and grenades were taken from the…
Over the last few weeks there has been a “very unusual” spike in dolphin deaths in the Aegean Sea, a Greek marine conservation group said Monday, adding that the rise could be…