Greece

Two Turkish Navy missile boats approached the eastern and northern shores of Agathonissi on Monday afternoon, violating Greece's territorial waters in the process. A Greek coastal patrol boat monitored the movements of the Turkish boats throughout, while a Hellenic Navy...

Two Turkish fighter planes engaged with and harassed the helicopter carrying Defense Minister Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos and the Chief of the National Defense General Staff, General Konstantinos Floros earlier Sunday. The minister and chief of staff were visiting the islands of...

Greece is monitoring a huge Turkish air and naval exercise which is currently taking place south of Crete and southeast of Rhodes, defense sources in Athens said on Thursday, as Turkish jets again violated Greek airspace over the Aegean. The...

Following the imposition of curfew measures for Santorini and Mykonos on Sunday, mayors of some smaller Greek islands are demanding a ban on all arrivals, especially over Easter, to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Among those islands is Tilos, in...

Greek security forces have launched a manhunt for migrants who illegally crossed over from the Turkish border since Friday when thousands massed on the Turkish side of the Evros River. Greek Reporter filmed an incident at the small border town...

The previous decade has been marked by a barrage of Turkish provocations in the Aegean Sea, escalating steeply in late 2019, according to new data released recently by the Hellenic National Defense General Staff. The culmination of these practices was...

Greece's prime minister says Turkish fighter jets harassed the helicopter he was traveling in during a visit to a remote Greek island to celebrate Independence Day. Alexis Tsipras said he was "welcomed" by Turkish fighter jets violating Greek airspace during...

Ankara has issued a list of 152 Greek islets, disputing their sovereignty and the international treaties that have established the status quo in the Aegean. The list is called EGAYDAAK, the acronym for "Egemenligi Anlasmalarla Yunanistan'a Devredilmemis Ada Adacıkve Kayaliklar",...

The permanent residents of 47 remote islands in Greece are to get free internet access based on a Joint Ministerial Decision signed on Thursday by Minister of Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Media; Nikos Pappas and Interior Minister Panos Skourletis. The measure...

President of the Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Tuesday visited the eastern Aegean islands of Symi, Farmakonissi, Agathonissi and Chios, accompanied by Defense Minister Panos Kammenos and Hellenic National Defense General Staff chief Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis. Pavlopoulos addressed a battalion of...

Turkish Minister for European Union Affairs Omer Celik on Tuesday challenged Greece's sovereign territories saying that Agathonisi island belongs to Turkey. According to Turkish newspaper Milliyet, Celik said that Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos is not a serious politician. "We...

NATO’s mission to combat migrant-smuggling networks in the Aegean, which are responsible for the hundreds of thousands of migrants crossing from Turkey into Greece, is up in the air as Turkey’s government has made a series of outrageous demands...

Campaign for the Greek islands Activists have started an online campaign, requesting that the Greek islands receive the Nobel Peace Prize, for their response to the refugee crisis. The “vote that the Greek Islands Receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their...

Three ferries with approximately 6,000 refugees on board from Chios and Mytilene arrived early on Wednesday at Piraeus port. "Blue Star Patmos" carried 1,997 refugees, "Eleftherios Venizelos" another 2,457 and "Ariadni" 1,503. Meanwhile, 873 migrants have been rescued by the Coast...

A total of 2,561 refugees were located and rescued by the Coast Guard and Frontex as well as a private sailing boat in 69 incidents in the sea regions of Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Agathonissi, Farmakonissi, Kalolimnos, Kos and Megisti...