Greece

There is history and mythology abounding throughout Greece, and the exotic Greek islands of Lichadonisia are no exception. The enticing, magical tales of the creation of this island complex located northeast of Evia, in the North Evia Gulf, only adds...

A video showing two Turkish Coast Guard vessels harassing a Greek fishing boat near the Greek islet of Imia was released by the Greek television station Open on Wednesday evening, showing only one of the hundreds of similar incidents...

The Greek government has distanced itself from the initiative taken by a group of Greeks to raise their country's flag on islets in the eastern Aegean. Government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos said that the country's foreign policy "cannot be implemented by...

Turkey has responded angrily to a EU report accusing the country of "offensive and unacceptable rhetoric" in its relations with Greece and Cyprus. The 2018 Turkey Country Report and the Enlargement Strategy Paper accuses Turkey of creating tensions in the Aegean...

The Greeks who raised the country's flag over uninhabited islets in the eastern Aegean say they did it to honor Giorgοs Baltadoros, the fighter pilot who lost his life when his Mirage fighter crashed off Skyros last week. Speaking to...

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",...

Turkey's Milliyet newspaper released a video of Turkish warship activity from an islet across Imia where they built an outpost to observe the area. The video that was shot late on Wednesday aftrenoon shows Turkish Navy ships patrolling the waters...

Ankara escalated tension in the Aegean on Tuesday by issuing the most provocative statement so far, claiming that the Imia islets belong to Turkey and that the Greek government is misinforming its people. The official statement issued by Turkey's Foreign...

Former NATO Commander James Stavridis has told Greek Reporter in an exclusive interview that the Aegean islets of Imia, whose sovereignty is disputed by Turkey, "are Greek and they will remain Greek forever." Speaking on the sidelines of the Leadership...

A Turkish coast guard vessel rammed a Greek vessel near the islets of Imia in the early hours of Tuesday, according to Greek media. There are no reports of injuries to the crew of either boat. The Greek vessel suffered...

A warship and two coast guard boats from Greece were intercepted by Turkey's Coast Guard, upon approaching disputed islets in the Aegean on Wednesday. The standoff between vessels from the two countries has lasted five hours, Dogan News Agency reported. The...

Two Turkish Air Force F-16s illegally entered the Athens Flight Information Region (FIR) and flew over the Greek islets Levitha and Mavria west of Kalymnos on Friday, the Hellenic National Defence General Staff announced. The pair of Turkish F-16s entered...

A Turkish coast guard boat came within a 2 meter distance of the Imia islets on Tuesday as reported by Turkish news website Sozcu. The report claimed that a Greek ship “just stood there, a mile off.” This is...

New tension was generated on Sunday between Greece and Turkey regarding the Imia islets in the Aegean, according to an ANT1 television report. The report cited Turkish media claiming that Greek navy ships violated Turkish territorial waters six times around...

Speaking to reporters in Ankara on Thursday, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirimn spoke of 130 islets in the Aegean for which it is not clear who they belong to. Other than challenging the ownership of the islets, Yildirimn also criticized...