01.08.2022
Editorial Ta Nea: Maintaining composure
Turkey knows that Greece and the West constitute a stable front in confronting the game of revisionism, with composure and without high-pitched rhetoric.
GREEK-TURKISH TENSIONS
09.07.2022
Editorial: Political stability
In dismissing snap elections, the PM expressed his trust in the public, which is facing difficulties in making ends meet but knows that Vladimir Putin is responsible and not Mitsotakis.
30.05.2022
Editorial: Maintaining composure in Greek-Turkish relations
PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ trip to Washington triggered hostile outbursts against him from Ankara, which is attempting to exploit current challenges to its benefit.
25.05.2022
Editorial: Responding to the challenge of Turkish provocations
By turning his country into a regional troublemaker, Erdogan offers Greece the opportunity to highlight the fact that it is fully capable of playing a role as a force for stability.
16.05.2022
Mitsotakis-Biden talks: Greek-Turkish relations, the war in Ukraine, wayward Turkey’s new role in NATO
The talks come amid heightened Greek-Turkish tensions in the Aegean, with an exponential increase in violations of Greek national airspace, and Ankara's return to the fold.
11.05.2021
Pyatt see deeper US-Greece strategic ties under Biden administration
Pyatt addressed the question of a Biden-Mitsotakis meeting in Washington asserting that both sides want it, but it appears that the timing remains very unclear.
22.12.2020
Editorial: Pressure
The undeclared war with Turkey cost Greece dearly. During the 100 day crisis involving Ankara's oil and gas research vessel "Oruc Reis" the Greek Navy was deployed to constantly monitor the Aegean.
13.11.2020
Editorial: Equation
The problem is that despite various indications Turkey’s next moves remain unknown because we have not yet learned to read them properly.
15.10.2020
Editorial: Reforms
The government must not allow the pandemic and the Turkish crisis to disorient them and they must speed up reform efforts so as to implement necessary changes.
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.
02.02.2020
Editorial: Limits
What would happen for example if a Turkish ship were conducting exploration and Ankara had issued a NAVTEX tying up the sea area?
10.12.2019
Turkey seeks to split gas, oil deposits of Cyprus, Greece
In a move apparently designed to exploit the enormous political divisions in Libya, the Speaker of Libya's House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh, will be visiting Athens on December 12.
01.07.2019
Defence minister warns tensions can bring military accident
'It is my conviction that this channel of communication must remain open. We want to reduce tensions as an accumulation of tensions can lead to escalation,' said Evangelos Apostolakis.
19.06.2019
Editorial: Temptations
It is absolutely necessary to tone down the rhetoric and to not give the impression that Ankara’s sabre-rattling can influence Greek domestic politics.
11.06.2019
Washington warns but Ankara heightens tensions with Nicosia, Athens
On 10 June, the Cypriot daily Phileleftheros reported that Nicosia has issued international arrest warrants for 25 individuals linked to Turkish Petroleum’s illegal offshore drilling in Cyprus’ EEZ.
11.06.2019
Editorial: Vigilance
Turkey’s intentions must be viewed from the vantage point of both its expansionist agenda and the desperation emanating from the state of the Turkish economy.
10.06.2019
Simitis sees prospect of new Imia-type crisis, urges caution
'Turkey may quite possibly send a ship to a portion of the continental shelf which Greece considers Greek and Turkey considers Turkish,' the former PM Simitis stated.
