Lausanne Treaty

There were a total of four violations of Greece's airspace by Turkish jets on Tuesday, authorities report. Two jets flying in formation and one singular jet entered the airspace near the inlet of Panagia. The jets were flying some 25,000 feet above...

Tuesday morning a Turkish CN235 entered Greek airspace and descended to the low altitude of just 30 meters as it flew over the islet of Panagia, part of the Oinousses island cluster east of the Greek island of Chios. This...

Turkey continues its provocations in the Aegean by issuing a new NOTAM on Friday asking for the demilitarization of the Greek island of Kasos. The NOTAM says that one of the three ares in which Greece is conducting military exercises...

Greece is determined to defend the "unswerving implementation" of the Lausanne Treaty, President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said on Thursday during an event proclaiming him an honorary president of the National Research Foundation “Eleftherios Venizelos” in Chania, Crete. Pavlopoulos reiterated that Greece...

"Statements questioning the Lausanne Treaty are unacceptable," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Stratos Efthymiou said in reply to a journalist's question regarding the statements of the Turkish leadership on the Treaty of Lausanne. Efthymiou underlined that "in the revisionism expressed repeatedly by...

Attempts by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to dispute the Lausanne Treaty were "outrageous," Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt said on Tuesday at an Economist conference in Nicosia. According to the head of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was provocative in statements made concerning the islands of the east Aegean that are under Greek ownership according to the terms of the Lausanne Treaty. Speaking on the occasion of 93 years since the...

Two violations over Greek air space by two pairs of Turkish jets were noted on Monday. Lately, violations have escalated along with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's fiery rhetoric encouraging Turkish youth to question the peace Treaty of Lausanne...

The frequency of violations of Greece's airspace and territorial waters along with Ankara's doubting of the Treaty of Lausanne have alerted the Hellenic National Defense General Staff (GEETHA) and diplomatic circles. Greek diplomats have been briefing high-level NATO and European...

  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan once again referred to the Lausanne Peace Treaty of 1923 stating that his country has been "trapped" in this document that defines borders between Greece and Turkey. He made these comments while a dogfight...