Greece

The Greece-France security agreement signed last week should lead to the establishment of French naval bases in Greece and Cyprus, a security analyst says. Dr. Ioannis Mazis believes that extending military collaboration with France will make Greece safer. Dr. Mazis,...

Greek and U.S. Coast Guard and naval forces conducted joint exercises in the Arabian Gulf in one of the most strategically-important areas of the world.

Greek Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos announced on Monday that the country is planning to build a second naval base at Souda, on the Greek island of Crete. As the minister explained, the new port aspires to accommodate the ships and...

Greek media are reporting that Turkey on Friday issued yet another navigational telex (Navtex) for the Mediterranean, this time for the waters north of Cyprus. Turkey stated that the Navtex was needed as it was intending to undertake naval exercises...

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...

France's ''Charles De Gaulle,'' the largest aircraft carrier in Europe, docked at the port of Limassol in Cyprus on Thursday. The photographs of this massive vessel are impressive by any measure and send a message of the strongest possible cooperation between the...

At a time when tensions between the United States and Iran are escalating dangerously, the strategic importance of Souda Naval Base on Crete is coming under the spotlight once again. Formally known as ''Naval Support Activity, Souda Bay,'' this facility, located...

The naval forces of the nations of France, Italy and the Republic of Cyprus will conduct a tripartite maritime cooperation exercise on Thursday called “CYP/FRA/IT 2019,” the Cypriot Ministry of Defense announced on Wednesday. The three European Union nations will conduct...

Turkey announced a 4-hour naval exercise in the Aegean for Monday, to take place in international waters south of Rhodes and east of Karpathos. Only days after the outcry caused in the East Mediterranean region by the signing of a...

France and Cyprus are conducting naval maneuvers off the coast of Cyprus as the east Mediterranean island nation is embroiled in a tense dispute with Turkey over offshore gas drilling. Two French frigates heading to Syria plan to take part...

Greece has sent dozens of Navy and Coast Guard vessels to the eastern Aegean in a desperate effort to stem the flow of migrants and asylum seekers who continue to cross over from the Turkish coast. According to a news...

Greek police and naval investigators probing the theft of military equipment and weapons from a naval base on the island of Leros are now focusing on two guards at the base. It is reported that the suspects had access to...

The Cypriot defense minister says French military experts are currently assisting Cypriot authorities in upgrading a naval port on the Mediterranean island nation’s southern coast to allow it to receive large warships. Savvas Angelides told private television station Sigma on...

Sources from Greece's National Defense General Staff (GEETHA) deny Turkish media reports about an incident that supposedly involved a Greek warship being interdicted by the Turkish naval forces, near the seismic vessel ''Barbaros Hayreddin Pasa''. GEETHA said that this never happened...

Turkey is planning to establish a sovereign naval base in north Cyprus, it was reported on Tuesday. According to Turkish daily Yeni Safak, Turkey’s navy has submitted a proposal to the north for the establishment of the base. Such a base...