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A Turkish F-16 fighter jet flew over the Greek island of Farmakonisi on Tuesday as Greece and Turkey escalate their verbal offensive against each other. According to the Greek defense sources the Turkish jet violated Greek airspace at 10.55 a.m....

A verbal confrontation between Greek and Turkish representatives broke out at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, regarding the latest Turkish activity in the Cypriot Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). "We are troubled by the recent provocations of Turkey in Cyprus' EEZ," Greek...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent very mixed signals in his remarks to European Union ambassadors at the presidential palace complex in Ankara on Tuesday. He stated glowingly that "Talks with Greece can usher in a new era," and that he...

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...

In less than 48 hours after the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and the Greek island of Samos, Ankara issued a new illegal NAVTEX for seismic search inside the Greek continental shelf. The words of friendship and good neighborly relations...

French President Emmanuel Macron once more expressed his country's solidarity with Greece saying on Friday that he had taken a tough stance with regard to Turkey’s actions in the Eastern Mediterranean. “When it comes to Mediterranean sovereignty, I have to...

We are ready for dialogue with Greece on the Eastern Mediterranean issue, said Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu speaking at a forum on tourism on Saturday. The statement came only one day after the Turkish official praised the agreement between...

The Greek Foreign Ministry underscored in a statement on Thursday that Turkey is in no position to lecture other nations on human rights. The statement was in response to Ankara's claims on Thursday morning that “Greece violates the rights of...

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu wrote a tweet on Tuesday in which he not only called the Muslim minority of Western Thrace ''Turkish,'' but also used a derogatory tone against Greece, its President and its democracy itself. It all began...

Things didn't look promising for Greece in regard to Turkey's recent expansionist moves during NATO's 70th anniversary gathering of member state leaders this week in London. Both U.S. President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg praised the...

The unpredictability of U.S. policy in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, along with Turkey's territorial claims in the region were two issues highlighted in a speech by former Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis in Thessaloniki on Saturday. Speaking...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu spoke to the 11th ''Ambassadors Conference'' in Ankara on Monday, where he presented a map depicting what Turkey considers to be the extent of its own continental shelf in the Mediterranean Sea. The map Cavusoglu...

On Friday, Greece's Foreign Ministry criticized comments by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who reportedly said his country will respond every time Greek fighter jets fly over the Aegean. On March 14, Erdogan said that if Greece sends out fighter...

Turkey’s Defense Ministry uploaded a tweet on Tuesday noting that the country is continuing its hydrocarbon research in the eastern Mediterranean with the state-owned vessel ''Barbaros''. The move was received in Athens as a clear message to the new Greek...

Greece is not to be taken seriously and is "the size of one of our cities" according to reported comments attributed to Turkey's prime minister on Wednesday. According to Greek newspaper Kathimerini, Binali Yildirim was quoted as saying: “Don’t take Greece...