Agreement includes a $1.65bn contract for the establishment and operation of a training center for the Greek air force. Greece and Israel have signed their biggest ever defense procurement deal, which Israel said would strengthen [ More … ]
The United Nations will convene a meeting of parties in the Cyprus dispute in Geneva in late April, the first such meeting since 2017 when talks about the divided island collapsed in disarray, according to [ More … ]
Military de-confliction mechanism established between Greece, Turkey, NATO says NATO said Thursday that a military de-confliction mechanism between Greece and Turkey for the Eastern Mediterranean disputes has been established. Turkish and Greek military delegations reached [ More … ]
Greece said it will bolster its military with new weapons, troops, and the development of its defence industry as a tense standoff with neighbouring Turkey has sparked concerns of open conflict between the two NATO [ More … ]
Egyptian opposition prominent figures issued on Saturday, August 8, 2020, a statement addressed to the Egyptian people rejecting what they called “the crime of demarcating the maritime borders with Greece”, according to the statement. A [ More … ]
Egypt and Greece signed an agreement Thursday designating an exclusive economic zone in the Eastern Mediterranean between the two countries, an area containing promising oil and gas reserves, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said. Shoukry [ More … ]
Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s comments come a month after the Libya-Turkey deal that seeks to create an exclusive economic zone. Greece‘s prime minister said in remarks published on Sunday that if Athens and Ankara cannot solve their [ More … ]
Israel has reportedly closed an extensive deal with Greece, Italy, and Cyprus to supply natural gas via a 2,000 kilometer (1200 miles) underwater pipeline in a five-year long construction that is estimated to cost nearly [ More … ]
Long-standing rivals Greece and Greek Cyprus appear determined not to allow Turkey calm waters in these seas Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned international oil and gas companies not to become political instruments of [ More … ]
The proposal excluding the presence of Turkish troops in Cyprus is out of question, EU Minister Ömer Çelik said Tuesday, as he criticized Greek Cypriots for blocking 14 negotiation chapters in Turkey’s EU accession process. [ More … ]
Israel’s Air Force participating in Iniohos 2017 at a Greek air force base. Israel and the UAE do not have official diplomatic relations. The Israel Air Force began a joint exercise on Monday in Greece [ More … ]
The Greek coast guard fired bullets at a Turkey-flagged freighter in the Aegean Sea on July 3 after it refused to obey calls from the Greek authorities to stop at a Greek port, the captain [ More … ]
Foreign ministers from the three guarantor powers – Britain, Greece and Turkey – will take part in security discussions, alongside the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders Nicos Anastasiades and Mustafa Akinci, Eide said on [ More … ]
Turkey wants to make a “fresh start” with the European Union under a new vision, in the wake of soured relations over recent months, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım stated on June 19. “Unfortunately, the [ More … ]
Criticizing Greek defense minister’s rhetoric on Kardak islets, Mevlut Cavusoglu adds that Turkey values ties with Greece Continuing a war of words over Aegean islets, Turkey’s foreign minister Sunday slammed the “provocative” rhetoric of Greece’s [ More … ]
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