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Italian ship under Ankara’s watchful eye – Vassilis Nedos / EKATHIMERINI

Athens is on standby to avoid unnecessary midsummer tensions as the Turkish Navy monitors the movements of the Italian ship Teliri, which is carrying...

Ankara eroding normalizaton with Athens / EKATHIMERINI

Despite lull on the ground, Turkey’s positions have not shifted on all key Greek-Turkish disputes Ekathimerini, June 27, 2024, by Vassilis Nedos , Manolis Kostidis The threats by...

One Hundred Years of Greek-Turkish Relations, by Samim Akgönül, published July 2024

The new book by Samim Akgönül, titled "One Hundred Years of Greek-Turkish Relations - The Human Dimension of an Ongoing Conflict," has been published...

Time for Greek-Turkish energy cooperation in Aegean, Greek official says / EKATHIMERINI

Marinos Giannopoulos, the CEO of Enterprise Greece, the official investment and trade promotion agency of the Greek state, called for Greek-Turkish energy cooperation in...

Families reclaim the remains of 15 recently identified Greek soldiers killed in Cyprus in 1974 / AP NEWS

The remains of recently identified Greek soldiers who fought in Cyprus against invading Turkish troops nearly a half-century ago were returned to their families...

Erdogan’s eye is on the bigger game – Costas Iordanidis / EKATHIMERINI

No one can claim that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ recent visit to Ankara and his talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan were scintillating....

Wary of wars in Gaza and Ukraine, old foes Turkey and Greece test a friendship initiative — S. Fraser & D. Gatopoulos / AP

Old foes Turkey and Greece will test a five-month-old friendship initiative Monday when Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visits Ankara. Agence Presse, May 13, 2024, by Susan...

Church converted into a mosque casts a dark shadow over Mitsotakis’ visit to Ankara – Yavuz Baydar / MEDIAPART

In the world of commotion, Greek-Turkish tensions are one of those that will not go away. Although both Athens and Ankara radiate some optimism,...

Turkey formally opens another former Byzantine-era church as a mosque / AGENCE PRESSE

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally opened a former Byzantine church in Istanbul as a mosque on Monday, four years after his government had designated it a...

Turkey-Greece population exchange still painful for those yearning for a lost past – Yusuf Selman Inanc / Middle East Eye

"More than 1.6 million people were displaced after the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne saw Christian and Muslim populations exchanged in an attempt to form...

Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman  spares the sensitivities of both his Greek and Turkish hosts – Al-Monitor/Fehim Taştekin

Saudi crown prince balances Turkey visit with stops in Greece and Cyprus "Mohammed bin Salman’s plan to visit Turkey as part of a regional tour...

Greek FM Dendias visits Palestine to ‘counter Turkey’s influence’

Duvar English, May 18, 2021, Nikolaos Stelyanstelya, Photo: Reuters Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias on May 18 visited Israel and the Palestinian territories as part of...

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