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Apostolakis warned that Greece and the region are at a critical geopolitical juncture that requires constant, heightened vigilance.

For the first time, over recent days we witnessed the defence minister – who is known for his brazenness – competing with the militarists in Ankara with constant statements which raise many questions

'It [Cyprus] being drawn into U.S. and NATO plans in the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East will inevitably lead to dangerous and destabilising consequences for Cyprus itself,' warned the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Putin aggressively denied any intervention in Greek domestic affairs, of which then foreign minister Kotzias had openly accused Moscow.

Ankara intends to submit the issue to the UN Security Council, as if it were Greece and not Turkey that is violating international law.

Nicosia’s FIR covers an area of 175,000 square kilometres, which is 19 times the area of the country’s national airspace. It borders with Turkey’s FIR to the north, northeast with Damascus’ FIR, southeast with Tel Aviv’s FIR, and to the south with Cairo’s FIR.

US Ambassador to Athens Geoffrey Pyatt averted a hot clash near Kastelorizi between a Greek frigate and the Turkish seismic research vessel Barbaros Hayreddin Pasha, military analyst Thanasis Drougos revealed/

Athens has lodged complaints with both the EU and Turkey, in a bid to secure a tighter border, and that a representative of the European Commission visited Ankara in order to raise the issue with Turkish authorities.

According to the article in the nationalist daily, the Turkish Navy has already submitted a request to the foreign ministry to begin work, so that Turkish warships can dock at the base, which will be built at a “suitable location”

The presence of Turkish fishermen in Greek territorial waters is a daily phenomenon, but they have never gone as far as to use gunfire

Emboldened by the huge powers he has accrued, and with ever increasing contempt for democratic institutions, the Turkish president believes that he can use a foreign national as a negotiating weapon to exert pressure

The defence ministry has no plans to extend the length of military service or to hire professional military personnel

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If Erdogan cannot restrain himself in dealing with the US, what can one expect he will he do in relations with Greece and Europe?

Dimitris Avramopoulos, Commissioner for Migration, in explaining the disbursal, underlined that the huge aid package is not going directly into Turkish state coffers, but rather into a special refugee fund.

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