October 4, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
A 4-year-old child on the remote island of Kastellorizo was seriously injured in an accident and her parents took her to a hospital in neighboring Turkey as the Greek ambulance helicopter did not respond to the call for a transfer to the island of Rhodes. According to media, the girl …
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July 27, 2022
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
Greece’s authorities have prepared an pioneering travel option, the “island hopping” charter flights, a pilot program that introduces charter tourism within the country and initially for three Greek islands, Astypalaia, Kastellorizo and Milos. The goal of the project is to provide the islands with additional connectivity with destinations not covered …
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January 3, 2022
FEATURED, Politics, Turkey-GR
The Turkish Defense Ministry uploaded a provocative video on Twitter showing cadets of the National Defense Naval Academy swimming a distance similar to one to the Greek island of Kastellorizo in an symbolic effort to underscore the island’s proximity to the Turkish coast. The video uploaded Saturday, January 1, twelve …
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December 13, 2020
FEATURED, Turkey-GR
Greek authorities have arrested two Greek men and charged them with espionage in favor of Turkey. They are accused of videotaping and taking pictures of warships and high- security installations such as military bases. One of the suspects works as secretary at the Turkish Consulate on the island of Rhodes. …
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December 6, 2020
FEATURED, Turkey-GR
Turkey is claiming “sovereign rights” over the Greek island of Kastellorizo and will ‘never compromise on this,” the Foreign Ministry in Ankara said on Saturday. The post of the Turkish Foreign Ministry comes ahead of the EU Summit next week, where EU leaders will discuss sanctions on Turkey due to …
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December 4, 2020
Turkey-GR
Turkey ‘s authorities on Friday issued a navigation warning (NAVTEX) for firing exercises in the eastern Mediterranean, in an area between the Greek islands of Rhodes and Kastellorizo. Turkey announced that the live-fire navy exercises will take place on Dec. 9-10, just ahead of the European Council where possible sanctions …
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October 22, 2020
Politics, Turkey-GR
Turkey said late on Wednesday that it extended the operation of seismic survey vessel Oruc Reis and two other ships in a disputed area of the eastern Mediterranean until Oct. 27, in a move likely to further escalate tensions in the region. Two other vessels, the Ataman and Cengiz Han …
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September 27, 2020
FEATURED, Turkey-GR
An unprecedented Turkish provocation: a drone flew over the island of Kastellorizo playing military marches and war sirens causing confusion among the residents of the island close to the Turkish coast. At the same time, it shot pictures of the Greek flag on a rock at the entrance of the …
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September 7, 2020
FEATURED, Politics, Turkey-GR
In the Eastern Mediterranean “they want to box us in on our shores with an island of 10 sq.km; this cannot happen.,” Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday. “In order to support our independence we have the opportunity to use both our diplomacy and our military power. That …
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September 3, 2020
Turkey-GR
Turkey apparently does not enjoy a party alone and invited a special guest: Russia. According to Turkish Navy, Russia will hold two naval exercises in the eastern Mediterranean beginning next week and for this purpose it has issued two Navtex to reserve sea areas in areas where Ankara is conducting …
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August 31, 2020
Turkey-GR
For one more time, Turkey has threatened Greece claiming that Athens is changing the status of its own island. Ankara speaks of illegal militarization on Kastellorizo and claims of “illegitimate attempts to change the status of the island.” Turkey’s protest was reaction to footage in the Turkish media showing Greek …
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December 2, 2019
Greece, Turkey-GR
Turkey escalates its provocations and inflammatory rhetoric towards Greece by claiming that Greek islands in the East Aegean Sea, in general, and the small island of Kastellorizo, in particular, do not have a continental shelf and therefore are partly within Greek territorial waters. It is the first time, Ankara explicitly …
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June 24, 2019
Greece
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has warned Turkey about the possibility of conducting any drilling on the Greek continental shelf. Ankara should not even think of conducting drilling at the island of Kastellorizo, Tsipras said in an interview with state broadcaster ERT3. He added that Greece has a plan and “will …
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April 17, 2018
Greece, Politics
Kastellorizo 23 April 2010 and 17 April 2018: Eight years ago, it was Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou who had chosen the remote island of Kastellorizo to announce that Greece had surrendered to the International Monetary Fund and the bailout agreements. On 17. April 2018, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras chose again …
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March 29, 2011
Turkey-GR
Greece refused to give permission to Italian oceanic vessel Explora after it sought permission from Turkey to research in areas covered by the Greek continental shelf and the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Research vessel Explora has been operating in the sea area south of Kastellorizo island for a marine survey towing a …
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March 23, 2011
Israel-GR, Turkey-GR
Boiling from anger and seeing with envy the Greek-Israeli rapprochement , it seems that our friend and neighbor Turkey is keen to create new conditions in the Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean Sea – it jumps young and boldly there where it is not asked to be. Not only a Turkish frigate …
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