Ankara is speaking of an “unacceptable event”, on the occasion of the deletion of the tweet by NATO with “congratulations” to Turkey for its victory in the Greek-Turkish war of 1919-1922, which marked the Asia Minor Catastrophe, for which it had also issued Goodbye Athens. As SKAI’s correspondent from Istanbul reports, the Ministry of Defense […]
Tag: Greek-Turkish relations
M. Varvitsiotis: To ensure the national front against Turkish provocation
“We will never accept that Greece from being a sovereign country turns into a transit country for refugees and immigrants to the rest of Western Europe,” Deputy Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said speaking to the “SKAI” television station. “Something like that would undermine our sovereign rights, our obligations under the Schengen treaty and the sense […]
Greece went on a strict protest march towards the Secretary General of NATO
The Permanent Representative of Greece to NATO made a strict protest to the Secretary General of NATO, on the occasion of the post of the NATO Land Forces Headquarters regarding the day of the Turkish armed forces, which coincides with the defeat of the Greek forces in Asia Minor on 1922. In its announcement, the […]
Bahtseli to Greece: Stop because the price will be heavier than 1922
The leader of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and government partner of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Devlet Bakhceli, used incendiary rhetoric at noon on Monday, referring to Turkey’s claims of the use of Russian S-300 by Greece against Turkish fighters. According to the correspondent of the SKAI TV station in Istanbul, D. Bakhceli said […]
Menendez: Turkey the biggest threat to the North Mediterranean – No to upgrading the F-16s
LAST UPDATE: 20.59 Senator Robert Menendez, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the federal Senate, the upper body of the US Congress, was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the School of Economics and Political Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The American […]
Athens’ three moves against Ankara’s ‘hybrid war’
By Dimitris Gatsiou Turkey is once again on its path of detente and détente, sharply increasing its challenges at all levels, grasping the thread of instrumentalization of the migration issue and Athens, which has been put on alert, is putting catalytic barriers to any leadership’s aspirations of Ankara. Through a triptych of moves, as it […]
Min. Defense: Turkish lies about the NATO mission of the intercepted fighters
In a categorical denial of Ankara’s claims, regarding the incident of interception of Turkish fighters by Greeks in the Athens FIR, the Ministry of Defense proceeded. In particular, Turkey talked about the participation of its fighters in a NATO mission, accompanying a flight of American B-52 aircraft, which the Greek Ministry of Defense informed that […]
R. Menendez: No F-16 in Turkey until it stands up to its responsibilities towards NATO.
“From the ongoing violations of Greece’s airspace to the delay in Sweden and Finland’s NATO accession process, I sincerely hope that Turkey will change course and live up to its responsibilities to the Alliance, being a constructive partner in the region which we all hope it can be. Until then, I cannot support the sale […]
The ‘alert’ for the Turkish provocations and the ‘rape’ of Menendez in Ankara
By Dimitris Gatsiou Ankara is adding new episodes to its… mosaic of challenges, whether it is related to the Aegean and the violations of the national airspace, or to the instrumentalization of the refugee-immigrant issue. The Greek authorities are in… a state of alert, especially since the leadership of its neighbor decided to use, once […]
Leaders of Athens against Ankara for the instrumentalization of the refugee-immigrant – The reaction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
By Dimitris Gatsiou Mydros of Athens against Ankara on the refugee-immigrant issue. The Greek capital abandons, among other things, the neighbor for trying to create a border issue, on the occasion of the incident with the 38 migrants in the Evros, with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs positioning itself, through a strict announcement, for the […]