June 7, 2022
Politics, Turkey-GR
In one voice Turkish media, analysts and military officials “bombard” the folk with claims that several Greek islands belong to Turkey, thus fully adopting the rhetoric of provocations and historically unfounded claims of president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A Turkish leader with neo-ottoman aspirations to grab Greek and Arab territories, as …
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June 6, 2022
Editor, FEATURED, Opinion, Politics, Turkey-GR
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is under pressure, in his own country due to an inflation that has gone out of control. What does he do? He “sells” to his countrymen expansionist rhetoric and targets Greek and Arab territories for the sake of collapsed Ottoman Empire, a year but a …
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June 2, 2022
Turkey-GR
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has sent a letter to the United Nations formally requesting that his country be referred to as “Türkiye,” the state-run news agency reported. The move is seen as part of a push by Ankara to rebrand the country and dissociate its name from the bird, …
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June 2, 2022
Politics, Turkey-GR
“If you have the heart for it, take the step on the occupied and armed islands. We will support you,” leader of Turkey’s main opposition party CHP, Kemal Kilicdaroglu said in support of Erdogan’s aggressive policy towards Greece. Speaking at the Grand National Assembly on Wednesday, the chief of [Modern …
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June 2, 2022
Greece, Politics
The US State Department and the European Commission expressed their support to Greece and its sovereignty on the islands of the eastern Aegean Sea and called on Turkey to stop airspace violations and overflights, threats and provocative rhetoric. However: The State Department urged both countries to “resolve disputes diplomatically”, while …
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May 31, 2022
FEATURED, Politics, Turkey-GR
Turkey continued its provocative crescendo against Greece on Tuesday and its Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu went so far to show maps and named 14 Greek islands in the eastern Aegean Sea for which Ankara wants to challenge the Greek sovereignty. “Demilitarize the islands now or we will raise the issue …
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May 30, 2022
Greece, Politics
Greece may face “hybrid-type threats” this summer aiming to destabilize the country internally, Defense Ministry sources told reporters in Parliament on Monday afternoon. The threats would possibly be played out on the islands and on the country’s northeastern border with Turkey along the r Evros river, the sources said, kathimerini, …
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May 30, 2022
Greece, Politics
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the escalating Turkish provocations against Greece are a factor of destabilization in the eastern Mediterranean region. Speaking in at the doorstep of the extraordinary EU Summit in Brussels on Monday, he said also that here is a need to tame irrational increases in energy …
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May 29, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece has placed its Armed Forces in the Eastern Aegean on high alert due to Turkey’s continued threats, expressed in recent days by high-ranking officials of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government. Although Greece has placed its military in the eastern Aegean on alert to convey a message of vigilance, …
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May 26, 2022
FEATURED, Politics, Turkey-GR
Greece must withdraw its military from the Aegean islands or Turkey “will take matters further,” if Athens failed to do so, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu warned on Thursday. Ankara is prepared to challenge their sovereignty, he added. “We are not bluffing. If Athens does not comply, we will take matters …
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May 26, 2022
Greece, Politics
The Permanent Representative of Greece to the United Nations delivered a letter addressed to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday rejecting claims contained in a letter delivered by Turkey to the same body in September 2021. The letter dated May 25, 2022, focuses particularly on Turkish claims that failure …
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May 25, 2022
Greece, Politics
“If President Erdogan thinks that I will not defend the sovereignty and sovereign rights of Greece and I will not make the case to the international audience that Turkey is behaving as a revisionist power, then he’s wrong,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday sending a strong message to …
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May 25, 2022
Politics, Turkey-GR, Uncategorized
New vandalism in Hagia Sophia: Turkish women scratch the interior walls of the cradle of Orthodoxy and take small pieces and even dust in plastic bags. They keep the stolen pieces as souvenirs, thus damaging the 1,500-year-old monument under UNESCO protection. Images of the “new hobby” have been posted first …
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May 24, 2022
Politics, Turkey-GR
Turkey escalated verbal attacks against the Greek Prime Minister on Tuesday and Erdogan’s government partner, nationalist Devlet Bahceli went so far to directly insult Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Speaking to his parliamentary group, the leader of the Nationalist Movement, Bahceli, used very harsh word and called the Greek PM “a pawn of …
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May 23, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics, Turkey-GR
“For me, there is no Mitsotakis. I will never meet with him again,” an obviously fuming Turkish President saod on Monday. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he has no intention of ever meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis again, following the latter’s criticism of Turkey during his visit to the …
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May 23, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The US State Department took position on the recent, massive overflights of Turkish fighter jets over uninhabited and inhabited small and big Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. Responding to a question by a journalist on how these actions impact the stability of NATO, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said: …
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May 23, 2022
FEATURED, Politics, Refugees
Alarm in the Aegean Sea: five boats with dozens of migrants onboard attempted to illegally cross into Greek territorial waters in the early morning hours of Monday. The Greek Coast Guard spotted the boats between the islands of Chios and Samos and th operation is still ongoing on Monday noon. …
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May 20, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics, Turkey-GR
An unprecedented violation of Greece’s national sovereignty by Turkish fighter jets on Friday: they reached 2.5 nautical miles off the port city of Alexandroupolis in north-eastern Greece. Angry reaction by the Greek Foreign Ministry that issued a statement condemning “the very clear escalation of Turkish provocations.” Foreign Ministry statement “We …
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May 19, 2022
Greece, Politics, Uncategorized
At the 103. Anniversary of the Pontic Greeks Genocide and millions still mourn the 353,000 men, women, children and elderly slaughtered by the official Turkish state in 1919, Erodgan’s Turkey lashed out at Greek officials who made commemorating statements. Distorting history and facts, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement …
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May 17, 2022
Greece, Politics
“There is no greater honor for an elected leader of Greece, where democracy was born, to address the representatives of people who have defended democratic ideals strongly since the founding of their country,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during his address at the US Congress on Tuesday. The Greek premier …
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