Greece

There is good reason to see Turkey’s Blue Homeland initiative as a bargaining tactic. Ankara asserts that its aggressive posture in the Aegean and Mediterranean stems from what it believes is Greece’s unwillingness to negotiate. A host of issues integral to Turkish interests remain unaddressed: natural gas in the Mediterranean, Greece’s militarization of territory in […]

Even the most incredulous person realises the words of the Turkish president are hollow as he takes care to demonstrate every day that he is an untrustworthy interlocutor.

'I also call on Turkish President Erdogan to reverse his recent decision to convert the Hagia Sophia to a mosque and to return this treasure to its former status as a museum,' said Biden.

'It is up to Turkey to close the path of crisis and open a path of resolution. We are willing to meet it on that second path and I’m optimistic that is the route we will take, to the benefit of our two peoples,” Mitsotakis said.

NATO announced on 1 October that Greece and Turkey, both alliance members, had set up a “military de-confliction mechanism” to avoid accidental clashes at sea.

'The summit "is a significant meeting for Greek-Turkish relations and beyond, for all foreign relations the EU has,' said Greek government spokesman Stelios Petsas.

The US Secretary of State stressed that it was a strategic choice to permanently dock the USS Hershel "Woody" Williams helicopter ship at the Souda Bay base because of its hugely strategic position

It is the duty of the Greek state to reveal his schemes and role and to communicate to the international community the threat that Turkey poses to regional security and peace.

Greece is marching alone in facing the provocations of its troublemaking neighbor Turkey, which has no compunction over exploiting refugees and migrants.

'We hope they’ll be real conversations [between Turkey and Greece] and we hope the military assets that are there will be withdrawn so these conversations can take place,' said the US Secretary of State.

The leaders said they welcome the mediation effort of EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and Germany to achieve a resumption of the dialogue between Greece and Turkey on the maritime zones issue. 

'What I think is important now is to support the German efforts to try to establish a platform for dialogue, for talks between two NATO allies, Turkey and Greece,' Nato chief Stoltenberg said.

Turkey occupied part of Syria thanks to an agreement with the US and Russia and it signed an illegal agreement supposedly delimiting the two countries’ EEZ’s, even though they are not contiguous.

Bloomberg saw room for Ankara to extend its influence in Libya and described Erdogan’s ambitions as follows: 'A national construct abroad seems better than domestic crisis management.'

All of his actions regarding the pandemic highlighted Erdogan’s weaknesses. At first he refused to take protective measures against the epidemic. He ignored the warnings of scientists.

Erdogan’s court was rife with scandals. He gave himself a 1mn dollar monthly salary, his assets were said to be worth nearly one billion dollars, and he provoked everyone.

The heads of EU institutions in a highly symbolic move intended to express solidarity with Greece and send a message to Turkey will on 3 March visit the Evros border region with the PM.

Although there have no cases in Greece so far, the Act will give authorities expansive power, including the power to suspend activities at venues that involve large gatherings of people.

Lakkotrypis said that despite Turkish threats and an invasion of Cyprus’ EEZ Nicosia is continually attracting new companies and promoting its interests.

'It is imperative that the international law of the sea, the principle of good neighbourly relations and the sovereignty and sovereign rights over the maritime zones of all neighbouring coastal states, including those generated by their islands, need to be respected,'Josep Borrell stated on behalf of the Commission.