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Greece/Turkey Arms Race: French Frigates vs. German Submarines?
It may sounds like a Balkan remake of "Dr. Strangelove," but there is an extreme war scenario where the arms race leads Greece's forces to use French frigates to fight Turkey, using German submarines.
The respective naval deals of Greece with France...
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Greece, US Conclude Joint Military Exercise “Poseidon’s Rage”
"Poseidon's Rage," the bilateral military exercise between military forces from Greece and the US was held from May 28 to June 11.
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Turkish Violations of Greek Airspace Double in Two Years
While Turkey escalates tensions in the Aegean with repeated issuings of illegal NAVTEXes, the amount of Turkish warplane overflights over Greece in 2020 outnumber those that have been made in the past decade.
The number of overflights of Turkish fighter...
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Chief of National Defense Praises Greek Armed Forces on OXI Day
General Konstantinos Floros, the chief of the General Staff of Greece's National Defense (GEETHA) addressed the nation on the occasion of OXI Day on Wednesday.
"The unanimous, solemn decision to fight to the end to repel the unjust and infamous...
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Greek Navy Forms Protective Wall Off Kastellorizo to Counter Turkish Threat
The Hellenic National Defense General Staff (GEETHA) released a series of photographs on Tuesday from the sea area near the Greek island of Kastellorizo, showing Greek warships forming a protective wall to prevent the Turkish research ship Oruc Reis...
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Greece Responds to Illegal Turkish NAVTEX with Aeronautical Exercise
Greece responded to the extension of the illegal Turkish NAVTEX with its own advisory for a big aeronautical exercise within the Greek continental shelf in the wider area of SE Crete, Karpathos, Rhodes and South Kastelorizo.
According to Hellenic National...
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F-16s from UAE Arrive at Their New Base at Souda Bay
Greek media are reporting that there is a change in the air over Souda Bay base on Crete.
During the day on Friday, four F-16 fighter jets from the United Arab Emirates will fly there and it is reported that...
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Turkish Jets Fly Over Aegean Island A Day After Visit of Greek President
Turkish fighter jets on Tuesday flew over the island of Agathonisi, located at the northernmost point of the Dodecanese, a day after President Katerina Sakellaropoulou's visit to the island.
The illegal overflights by a pair of Turkish F-16 fighter jets...
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Turkey Conducts Major Naval Exercise as Jets Violate Greek Airspace
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...
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Greek Army Publishes Video Showing Actions During Evros Border Crisis
The Hellenic (Greek) National Defense General Staff (GEETHA) published a video on Wednesday showing the timeline of the events that led up to the recent border crisis in Evros.
The Evros crisis began in late February, when the Turkish leadership...
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Barrage of Turkish F-16 Overflights Recorded in Eastern Aegean
The Hellenic (Greek) National Defense General Staff, or GEETHA, announced on Friday afternoon that a series of overflights conducted by Turkish F-16 fighter jets above Greek islands were recorded on Friday.
More specifically, in a total period of just twenty-one minutes,...
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Greece's Determined Defense of Evros Border Forces Migrants Away
Greek authorities believe that Turkey has started to evacuate the migrants sent to the border in the northeastern Evros region to try to cross over into Europe.
Shortly after midnight on Thursday, migrants who have been camping out on the...
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Border Tensions Rise as Refugees and Migrants Try to Enter Greece
Thousands of refugees and migrants continue to gather at Greece's border with Turkey in Evros, following Ankara's decision to stop preventing migrants from marching towards the EU.
On Saturday morning, tensions rose as groups of refugees and migrants tried to...
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Greece, France and US Send Message of Strength in ''Alexander the Great'' Military Exercise
The large-scale joint military exercise dubbed ''Alexander the Great'' concluded its operations on Friday on the Greek island of Skyros.
The multinational military exercise, which has been conducted jointly this week by the armies of Greece, France and the United...
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Greece Announces New Leaders of the Armed Forces
The Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA), Greece's supreme decision-making body on issues of foreign policy and national defense, held a meeting on Friday morning and named who would become the new leaders of the country's armed...