January 14, 2021
FEATURED, Politics, Turkey-GR
With high speed and dangerous maneuvers a Turkish coast guard boat harasses a Greek fishing boat in the broader sea area of the islets of Imia neat the island of Kalymnos. The Turkish boat sails by at a “breathing distance” from the bow of the fishing boat setting the crew …
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March 11, 2020
Greece
A serious incident took place in the early morning hours of Wednesday, when a Turkish Coast Guard boat attacked a vessel of the Greek Coast Guard off the island of Kos, in the eastern Aegean Sea. “Intentionally with the purpose to ram it,” says Greece and summons the Turkish ambassador …
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March 6, 2020
Politics, Turkey-GR
A video released by the Greek Coast Guard shows a one of its vessels being harassed by a Turkish Coast Guard boat. The Turkish vessel can be seen maneuvering dangerously close to the Greek boat at high speed, obviously trying to ram it. The Greek captain avoids the worse by …
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January 15, 2020
Turkey-GR
Turkish coast guards harassed Greek fishermen and even threatened them with a weapon in the sea off the coast of the island of Kalymnos in the Dodecanese. The Turkish inflatable boat with a couple of men on board approached the Greek fishermen boat dangerously close. The incident took place on …
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January 28, 2018
Turkey-GR
Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammos sailed to the islet of Imia on Sunday to pay respect to the three Greek pilots lost their lives when an Augusta Bell Helicopter fell into the sea during the Imia conflict on 28 Janaurary 1996. Officials pictures and videos released by the defense Ministry …
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January 17, 2018
Turkey-GR
A patrol boat of the Turkish Coast Guard bumped on gunboat “Nikiforos” of the Greek Navy off the islet of Imia in the eastern Aegean Sea on Wednesday. Nikiforos was on routine patrol near the islet, Ankara claims it belongs to Turkey. The incident occurred in the Greek territorial waters. …
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May 10, 2017
Politics, Turkey-GR
The Turkish Coast Guard published alleged official maps and documents claiming half of the Aegean Sea belong to Turkey. In this sense, Ankara claims to won dozens of Greek islands, the entire eastern Aegean from the island of Samothraki in the North to Kastelorizo in the South. The maps and …
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March 20, 2017
Politics, Turkey-GR, World
Refugees and migrants flow from Turkey to Greece started to rise again. In last five days, a total of 566 people arrived to the Greek islands on boat coming form Turkey. Most affected are the islands of Lesvos, Chios and Samos. It is unclear whether the flow increase is due …
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April 29, 2016
Turkey-GR
A patrol boat of the Turkish Coast Guard patrol boat threatened to arrest a Greek fisherman sailing in Greek terrirotail waters off the islands of Oinousses near Chios. Only the intervention of a gunboat of the Greek Navy managed to avert a real escalation between the two countries. Turkey has …
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March 13, 2016
Politics, Refugees
This is how the famous push-backs in the Turkish territorial waters look like: a vessel of the Turkish coastguard approaches a boat full of refugees and using sticks the coastguard tries to push the boat back to the shore. The shocking video obtained by the BBC, shows how the Turkish …
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February 18, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
Unbelievable and very cruel, if true! Syrian refugees claim that a Turkish coast guard vessel took several children from a boat where they were together with their parents and took them back to Turkey. Furthermore, that the coastguard officer attempted to sink the boat while it was sailing in Turkish …
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