Greece

Turkey received its first shipment of an advanced Russian missile defense system earlier this month, ignoring repeated warnings from Washington and fueling concerns about where the country’s loyalties lie between the West and Moscow. The primary concern of the US...

Greece welcomed the United States sanctions to be levied against two ministries and three officials of Turkey on Monday. According to the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, the action taken in response to Turkey’s military operations in Syria will affect Turkey’s...

Greece has asked the United States to purchase up to two dozen fifth generation F-35 aircraft to boost its defense capabilities in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, it emerged on Monday. The official Letter of Request (LOR) from the Department...

Geoffrey Pyatt, the United States' ambassador to Athens, had some strong admonitions regarding Russian influence in the troubled Eastern Mediterranean in his remarks during the online Thessaloniki Summit on Thursday. Apropos the recent Athens visit of Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey...

While the world feels numb from the ramifications of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, all eyes are turning to the United States for today's 58th presidential election, probably the most important in the post-war years. What is certain...

European heads of states and governments met in Brussels on Friday in a summit which was to address a range of issues, from fishery rights and Brexit talks to measures to deal with the coronavirus. However, at the urging of...

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis told visiting NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday that Turkey's actions "threaten the peace, stability and cohesion of NATO itself." "We discussed everything that has happened in recent months in the Eastern Mediterranean," Mitsotakis said...

Turkey has decided to prolong the stay of the Oruc Reis survey vessel in the Greek continental shelf until September 1, after a new navigational advisory it issued on Thursday. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other senior officials said...

Greek premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced in an interview published on Sunday that he will raise the possibility of Greece acquiring the state-of-the-art F-35 fighter jets during his meeting with President Trump at the White House on January 7. "We can...

Things didn't look promising for Greece in regard to Turkey's recent expansionist moves during NATO's 70th anniversary gathering of member state leaders this week in London. Both U.S. President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg praised the...

The agreement between the United States and Turkey allowing the Turkish Army to advance in northern Syria and create a safety zone to supposedly host approximately two million refugees has Athens worried. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan claims his army would...

The new Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will go to Washington DC on Wednesday to meet with his counterpart in the US State Department Mike Pompeo and other senior American officials. The visit was not originally on the official schedule,...

Turkey has shown that it will not go back on its intention to begin drilling for oil and natural gas in the eastern Mediterranean, an area which is considered part of Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). This is despite mounting...

Ankara continues its aggressive behavior in the eastern Mediterranean, demanding a piece of the hydrocarbon pie inside Cyprus' Exclusive Economic Zone, while at the same time the defense ministers of Greece and Turkey discussed confidence-building measures. The meeting between Evangelos...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke to his party's Parliamentary group on Tuesday and made several remarks regarding his country's drilling activities in the region of Eastern Mediterranean. ''We have four vessels in the region and we have taken our...