Politics

Greece and Turkey might have agreed to sit at the table for exploratory talks at the end of January, but it seems the Turkish side is unabating in using incendiary rhetoric. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu openly threatened Greece in

Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Dendias made it clear that the only issue Greece would discuss with Turkey in the upcoming exploratory talks on January 25 concerned the continental shelf and the Exclusive Economic Zone in the Aegean and the Eastern

The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talked about the Greek-Turkish relations, after Friday prayers, in view of the exploratory contacts between the two countries, which are scheduled to begin on January 25. “Both our bilateral contacts and the rest of

The Greek Prime Minister, during his first speech in the Parliament for 2021, stated that he had to focus on the pandemic as a priority. “Not only because the mass vaccination with the ‘Freedom’ program started, but because I consider

In recent weeks, tension has been escalating in the Aegean Sea amid a Greek and Turkish argument over energy reserves in the Eastern Mediterranean. In July, Turkey dispatched a research vessel called the Oruç Reis to conduct drilling operations in

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Northern Macedonia, Bujar Osmani, at the Maximos Palace in Athens Thursday. Talks focused on the course of bilateral relations and in particular the development of economic cooperation and

Cyprus and the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday signed their first military cooperation agreement as the eastern Mediterranean island nation seeks to bolster relations with nearby countries in the Middle East. Cyprus already had military agreements with Egypt, Israel and

Ruling New Democracy (ND) holds a commanding 18.6 point-lead over major opposition party SYRIZA in the latest nationwide poll conducted by Marc for Alpha TV. As the results showed, those asked said they did not want early elections, with 55.8%

Turkey invariably insists that opposition from the United States and NATO over its controversial purchase of advanced Russian S-400 air defense missile systems is hypocritical since neighboring Greece never received such scrutiny for its past procurement of older S-300 missiles.

Migrant crossings into Greece fell by 76% in 2020 compared to 2019, according to the latest data from Frontex, the European Border, and Coast Guard Agency. Overall in 2020, 19,681 migrants crossed from Turkey into the Greek Aegean islands and