Greece

As unlikely as it may seem, a dispute over salvage rights between Turkish and Greek captains was the trigger for a series of events which escalated into a major international incident called the Imia Crisis. The quickly-spiraling crisis saw the...

Greek authorities revealed on Friday that Turkey’s "Oruc Reis" research vessel has violated the boundaries of Greece’s continental shelf, and was operating south of the island of Kastellorizo. The Turkish vessel entered Greece’s continental shelf area at 6:40 a.m. and...

A video showing two Turkish Coast Guard vessels harassing a Greek fishing boat near the Greek islet of Imia was released by the Greek television station Open on Wednesday evening, showing only one of the hundreds of similar incidents...

  Greece hit back on Wednesday at an "absurd" statement by Turkey which earlier claimed that the Imia islets in the eastern Aegean are Turkish. In a strongly worded statement, the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls on Ankara to stop...

Turkey has responded angrily to a EU report accusing the country of "offensive and unacceptable rhetoric" in its relations with Greece and Cyprus. The 2018 Turkey Country Report and the Enlargement Strategy Paper accuses Turkey of creating tensions in the Aegean...

A Turkish statement about Greece adopting EU environmental laws on Imia has drawn a stern rebuke from Athens. Turkey's Ministry of Foreign Affairs hit out at Greece for extending the Natura 2000 environmental protection programme to the Aegean islets, claiming Imia's...

Parliamentary documents have revealed that Greece could apply for compensation from Turkey for the damage sustained by a Greek coastguard vessel hit by a Turkish ship in February. A report in Greek newspaper Kathimerini cites a March 20 document which...

Video has surfaced of a purported Turkish thermal radar unit overlooking the Greek islets of Imia. The Ihlas News Agency has released video showing a Mugla-province-registered vehicle on the Turkish coast within viewing distance of the islets. On top is mounted...

Two videos capturing the moment when a Turkish Coast Guard vessel rammed into the Greek patrol boat 'Gavdos' near Imia on Monday night were released on Friday. The exact time the incident occurred according to the timer of the videos of...

Turkish media on Thursday broadcast footage appearing to show further military fortification work being undertaken on islets close to Imia in the Aegean Sea. Video footage recorded by the Dogan News Agency and shared by the Cumhuriyet newspaper's video channel...

Turkey's Milliyet newspaper released a video of Turkish warship activity from an islet across Imia where they built an outpost to observe the area. The video that was shot late on Wednesday aftrenoon shows Turkish Navy ships patrolling the waters...

Ankara escalated tension in the Aegean on Tuesday by issuing the most provocative statement so far, claiming that the Imia islets belong to Turkey and that the Greek government is misinforming its people. The official statement issued by Turkey's Foreign...

Tension in the Aegean is rising as 11 Turkish and eight Greek warships patrol around Imia islets, following Tuesday morning's incident of a Turkish Navy ship ramming a Greek coast guard boat. According to Hurriyet newspaper, 11 Turkish navy and...

Greece filed a strongly-worded demarche with the Turkish embassy on Tuesday, following the ramming by a Turkish patrol boat of a Greek vessel near the Imia islet area before midnight on Monday. The Port Authority confirmed that the Turkish patrol...

Former NATO Commander James Stavridis has told Greek Reporter in an exclusive interview that the Aegean islets of Imia, whose sovereignty is disputed by Turkey, "are Greek and they will remain Greek forever." Speaking on the sidelines of the Leadership...