16.10.2020
Editorial: Endurance test
Greece has openly expressed its willingness to commence a substantial dialogue with Turkey which both the EU and the US strongly support.
Erdogan
13.10.2020
Editorial: Opportunity
The best answer to Turkish provocations is always diplomacy. That way Athens demonstrates that it is by being the trustworthy regional interlocutor and that in contrast with Turkey it can be a basic pillar of stability.
12.10.2020
Editorial: A crucial contest
The issue to be decided in elections in Turkish-occupied Cyprus is whether dialogue and negotiations will proceed or whether Ankara’s provocative stance and the political fatigue of the Turkish-Cypriots will result in deeper impasses.
21.07.2020
Hagia Sophia, Turkey, Russia and the West
For a year-and-a-half Vartholomeos has been the target of an intensive propaganda campaign by both the Kremlin and the Moscow Patriarchate, which in both the Soviet era and under Putin has been the long arm of Russian soft (and often not so soft) power.
10.06.2020
Editorial: An historic agreement
The press saw the Greece-Italy EEZ agreement as one that secures the right of islands, but it has three distinct parameters that must be assessed.
07.04.2020
Editorial: One-way street
In such difficult times the government, state institutions, and society must transcend themselves, and that is a one-way street as there is no other way.
12.03.2020
Editorial: Bazaar bargaining
'Greece does what it does at its borders on behalf of the West,” he declared of Athens’ decision to entirely close its border with Turkey,' Erdogan declared.
05.03.2020
Editorial: Bystanders
Moscow is now a major player in the region and its influence is inversely proportional to that of other strong players such as the US and the EU.
04.03.2020
Editorial: The EU’s responsibility
The reinforcements and equipment το guard the Greek-Turkish borders are welcome and are the product of the cognisance of the fact that this is not a problem between Greece and Turkey but rather between the EU and Turkey.
01.03.2020
Ankara directs masses of migrants towards Greek-Turkish borders, Athens demands EU solidarity
Greece is aising to the highest level the measures to guard the country’s eastern land and sea borders by security forces and the Greek armed forces to fend off illegal entry into the country.
20.02.2020
Editorial: Crisis
Erdogan has established an authoritarian regime which as all such regimes is afraid of its own shadow and the political system remains deeply divided.
05.02.2020
SYRIZA links Oruc Reis incident to Turkey’s disputation of Greek sovereignty over Aegean islets
The captain of the Greek frigate “Nikiforos Fokas” repeatedly warned the Turkish captain that the vessel was in the area of the Greek continental shelf and that it must leave
21.01.2020
Editorial: Audacity
Crete’s continental shelf has already been disputed by the Turkey-Libya EEZ delimitation MOU which was rejected by both the US and EU.
19.12.2019
Editorial: Pathways
Ankara continues to provoke with inconceivable actions such as twelve over-flights over the islands of Panagia, Inouses, all within a half an hour.
07.12.2019
Editorial: Mediterranean
Following his talks with Tayyip Erdogan, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis reminded us that with Turkey 'there were, are, and always will be difficulties'.
01.11.2019
Editorial: Principles
It took over a century for the superpower that is the US to join the countries that fulfiled their duty toward historical memory and decided without the cynicism of realpolitik.
21.06.2019
Editorial: Wall
The abandonment of plans for a Cyprus settlement combined with the fact that Turkey is distancing itself from the EU with Erdogan's tougher stance are swiftly moving toward a final divorce that will not be smooth.
13.01.2019
Ruling coalition collapses, Tsipras seeks confidence vote
Kammenos has been replaced as defence minister by Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis, until now Greece’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
