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...

Greece is gravely concerned about a new illegal migrant wave of Somalis who are entering Greece by means orchestrated by Turkey, aided by a network of NGOs and migrant traffickers. Earlier this month, Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis said in a...

Secret documents obtained by a research group show that the Turkish military had prepared to force back home eight officers who fled to Greece in the aftermath of the failed 2016 coup in Turkey. The Nordic Research Monitoring Network published...

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on Greece on Tuesday to cooperate in the repatriation of eight soldiers who fled to Greece following a 2016 coup attempt. Erdogan made the remarks in a joint news conference with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras...

The issue of the 8 Turkish Military Officers who fled to Greece in order to escape prosecution is still an issue that creates problems between Turkey and Greece. During the inauguration of the revamped Greek Consulate in Turkey's Izmir city...

A government jet has flown two Greek soldiers -- Second Lieutenant Angelos Mitretodis and Sergeant Dimitris Kouklatzis -- home from Turkey after they were released following 167 days in a Turkish prison. Dressed in uniform, the two men were greeted with...

Ankara on Monday slammed Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after the release of the last of the eight Turkish ex-soldiers who have been granted asylum in Greece. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag accused Tsipras of failing to keep his promise...

The two Greek soldiers held illegally in Turkey are also NATO and European Union soldiers, said Defense Minister Panos Kammenos on Saturday, during an informal Council of EU Defense Ministers held in Sofia, Bulgaria. "At the informal Council of Defense Ministers...

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias has warned Turkey it could lose a war in the Aegean, saying "Greece is not Afrin". In an interview with SKAI TV aired on Tuesday night, Kotzias said Ankara had realized that the cost of an Aegean...

The purging of experienced officers from the Turkish military and a declining lack of influence over Ankara from the U.S., EU and NATO make resolving Greek-Turkish tensions more and more difficult. This was the view of analysts interviewed by Bloomberg...

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos spoke on the telephone with Nikos Mitretodis, father of soldier Angelos Mitretodis who along with Dimitrios Kouklatzis are held in Turkey. The Greek president asked the father of the one of the soldiers...

"If they have the guts, let them dare challenge one inch of our soil," Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said on Wednesday, addressing officers and conscripts during a military exercise. Kammenos was referring to numerous recent provocations by Turkey in...

The assessment that the detainment of the two Greek junior army officers may last for 15 years was expressed by Defense Minister Panos Kammenos on Monday. "In a country where justice operates under the orders of the Sultan the case...

Maximos Mansion has issued a strongly-worded statement in response to comments made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the two Greek soldiers held in Turkey and the eight Turkish army officers who sought asylum in Greece. The Turkish president...

U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt said on Tuesday that his country is supportive of the approach taken by the Greek government on the issue of the two Greek soldiers being held in Turkey. "I'll simply say that the United States is fully engaged...