Challenges “need action today, not discussion tomorrow,” and we need to be “increasingly united,” during the difficult times, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in his speech at the 75th UN General…
Tag: Mediterranean
At the peak of tensions between Greece and Turkey in the East Mediterranean, the 40-year-old Greek frigate Limnos significantly damaged the Kemal Reis, the flagship of the Turkish Navy that was violating…
Greece will purchase 18 Rafale F3R fighter jets and other necessary equipment for a total of €2 billion, according to French media. €1.7 billion will be spent for 18 combat aircraft and…
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is due to visit Athens, the northern port city of Thessaloniki and the island of Crete next week in the context of a trip starting on…
Ankara is trying to set its own terms, in view of the start of exploratory contacts between Greece and Turkey, once again calling for the demilitarization of the Aegean islands . Athens…
What some do not seem to realise, or simply turn a blind eye to as it does not suit their theories, is that the European Union, led by Germany, is NOT trying…
The meeting of the Turkish National Security Council in Ankara lasted four hours and 10 minutes and in the announcement they issued afterwards, it called on Greece, although it did not name…
In an interview with Le Figaro newspaper yesterday, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades said that his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, is a ray of hope to save EU principles and values who also…
One of the main arguments of Turkey in order to justify its aggression, provocations and piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean is its claim that it has the largest coastline in the region.…
A Greek Member of Parliament has said that some European states are likely to try and cancel any sanctions against Turkey despite its continued aggression against EU member states Greece and Cyprus.…
Yesterday there was a meeting between all of the EU’s Foreign Ministers to pass sanctions against Belarus. It created massive controversy and revealed the significant divide between Mediterranean and Northern Europe. The…
The US Embassy in Turkey has made a blatant contradiction by claiming that “the United States as a matter of global policy does not take positions on other states’ maritime boundary disputes”…
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…
Apart from the niceties (which I’m sure are genuine), Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou again reiterated at one point in front of Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades that withdrawal of Turkey’s Oruç Reis research…
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…
On September 17, Medicane Ianos, a rare hurricane-like storm in the Mediterranean, severely hit many places in Greece. One of those places was beautiful Kefalonia. The picturesque Assos is one of the…
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…