The Greek Coast Guard released a video showing frame by frame the pursuit and arrest of a Turkish migrants trafficker in the sea area of the island of Kos in the eastern Aegean Sea opposite the Turkish coast. The video shows the moment a Coast Guard commando shoots again and …
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+++Emirates “suspect” located in Athens: He is a Turkish national
The “terrorism suspect” wanted by Greek and US authorities on two Emirates flights on Thursday has been identified and located in Athens, media report on Friday afternoon. He is a Turkish national of Arab origin. Despite the thorough security checks of the passengers bound to Dubai and New York, the …
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Turkish citizen arrested in Thessaloniki over phone fraud in Germany
A Turkish citizen was arrested in Thessaloniki, in execution of a European warrant issued by German judicial authorities, on charges of participating in telephone fraud in Germany. Sources said the suspect is a 22-year-old man who has already been taken to the Appeals Prosecutor’s Office of Thessaloniki to initiate procedures …
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Turkish mayor: “I become kamikaze, blow myself up among Greek soldiers”
A Turkish mayor announced that he will become a suicide bomber and will blow himself up among Greek soldiers. The man wannabe-kamikaze Tansu Ozcan is the mayor of Bolu, north-western Turkey, elected with the ticket of Kemalist opposition party CHP. “I am even becoming a suicide bomber against Greece. As …
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Turkish Coast Guard harasses rescue boat inside Greek territorial waters (video)
The captain of a Turkish Coast Guard vessel carried out dangerous maneuvers within Greek territorial waters around a Greek rescue boat near Leros island, the Shipping and Island Policy Ministry said on Wednesday. The incident occurred on Monday (July 25) off Farmakonissi, North-East of Leros in the East Aegean Sea, …
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Erdogan: “Greece must be held accountable for Turkish airspace violations”
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Greece has violated Turkish airspace 147 times and it needs to be held accountable for this. He was speaking at a news conference in Madrid at the end of a NATO summit. It was not immediately clear over what time period the …
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Hagia Sophia “mosque” to decorate new Turkish passports
The new generation of Turkish passports will feature an updated design, including a drawing of the 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia, the Byzantine cathedral-turned-mosque, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said in an address to the nation. Erdogan formally converted Istanbul’s crowing architectural jewel from a museum into a mosque in 2020, in …
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FM Dendias: “Upgrade of Turkish arsenal by USA is a problem for Greece”
“The upgrade of Turkish arsenal by the USA is a problem,” Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias told the Parliament on Thursday, during the debate on the Mutual Defense Agreement between Greece and the USA scheduled to be ratified today. In the shadow of the “rumored” decision of the Biden administration …
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Turkish nationals seeking asylum use paragliding to reach Greece UPD
Two Turkish nationals flew a paraglider and landed in Karystos on the island of Evia seeking political asylum. According to an exclusive report by local media evima.gr the paragliding crashed in the sea area of Bouros early Saturday evening. Port authorities picked up the two people and transferred them to …
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Turkish nationals seek political asylum in Greece after sailing boat damaged
Eight Turkish nationals, among them members of the Turkish Armed Forces, sought political asylum in Greece after their sailing boat was damaged due to weather conditions off the south of the island of Crete. The passengers sent an SOS signal around 10 o’ clock on Monday morning, while the boat …
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Turkish fishing boat collides with Greek tanker: 5 dead
Four people died and one is missing after the collision of a Greek tanker with a Turkish fishing boat in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The accident took place 15 nautical miles from Karatas, off the port of Adana in the Turkish South-West coast at 05:50 on Wednesday morning. Following the …
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Greece on alert due to 120 Turkish fishing vessels crossing Aegean Sea
Greece’s Coast Guard and the Navy are closely monitoring the movement of some 120 Turkish fishing vessels sailing through the Aegean Sea. The vessels have reportedly gather in the Dardanelles on Friday and are moving towards the Libyan Sea. The fleet is sailing through international water in the northern Aegean …
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Turkish fishing vessels spotted 3n.m. off Mykonos (videos)
Three Turkish fishing vessels have been spotted in Greek territorial waters off the coast of the island of Mykonos in the central Aegean Sea. Turkish fishing vessels are reported also off the island of Paros.The vessels are still in the area, with the Greek Coast Guard to have not taken …
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Turkish actor Can Yaman shows “finger” to Greeks from the Acropolis
His fans describe him as extremely handsome and sexy. And maybe he is. Turkish actor Can Yaman is visiting Athens for some public relations reasons, probably a TV series promotion or something. The handsome and sexy Yaman played foul, though, right upon his arrival in the Greek capital. He went …
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Unknown perpetrators set two Turkish diplomatic cars on fire
Unknown perpetrators have set on fire two cars belonging to members of the Turkish diplomatic mission in Thessaloniki, Northern Greece. The two attacks took place in neighboring areas the early morning hours of Monday and damaged also four other vehicles parked next to the targeted ones with Turkish diplomatic plates. …
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“Agathonisi is Turkish island under illegal Greek occupation” claims Ankara
Turkey has …lost it. Trying to find an excuse for the inexcusable it claims that Greek prime Minister Alexis Tsipras flew to a Turkish island Agathonisi on Monday and therefore its fighter jets harassed his helicopter. The official Turkish position on the unprecedented incident is that “there was no harassment.” …
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Turkish F-16s harass helicopter carrying PM Tsipras to Agathonisi
Turkish fighter jets harassed the helicopter carrying Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to the remote island of Agathonisi in north Dodecanese. The jets forced the helicopter of the Greek Air Force to fly at low attitude until they were intercepted by Greek F-16s. Tsipras was visiting the small island in the …
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Turkish MPs provoke and threaten Greeks and Cypriots in Athens Parliament
What if Turkish lawmakers are guest at the Greek Palriament? They do not hesitate to provoke and threaten both their hosts and the Greek-Cypriots and claim rights over part of the Aegean Sea and the Cyprus Economic Exclusive Zone. “The unilateral extraction of hydrocarbons on the part of the Republic …
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Turkish pilot Ozkaynakci may receive travel documents to leave Greece
Suleyman Ozkaynakci, the Turkish serviceman who piloted the helicopter in which he and seven other Turkish officers fled to Greece after the failed coup in Turkey, was granted full asylum and may receive travel documents to leave Greece. According to the reasoning for granting asylum by the Greek Council of …
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Tragedy in Evros: Bodies of mother and baby recovered, two children still missing
The body of the 36-year-old mother and the youngest among the three missing children, 12-month-old Bekir have been recovered on the Turkish side of the Evros river on Friday afternoon more than 24 hours after the boat capsized/ Turkish media report that the mother was holding the baby in her …
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