Mediterranean

Turkey issued an announcement on Thursday declaring it will conduct "seismic research" in a large area of the Eastern Mediterranean which includes parts of the Greek continental shelf and the Cypriot E.E.Z. Turkey said the research will be ongoing in...

United States Department of State Building in Washington, D.C. File photo The US State Department described the recent Russian claim that the United States plans to militarize the island of Cyprus as "absurd", answering to Greek correspondents in Washington on...

Bilateral relations, regional developments and the Cyprus problem were the main issues that were discussed during the Nov. 6th meeting between Cyprus Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides with his US counterpart Mike Pompeo and Wess Mitchell, Assistant Secretary of State for...

A Turkish newspaper known to be pro-government claims that Greece and Egypt are trying to "strangulate" Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean through the delimitation of large Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ). An EEZ is a sea zone prescribed by the United Nations...

Greek and foreign scientists are really excited with the surprising discoveries in the archipelago of the Greek island of Fournoi. At least 58 shipwrecks, most of them dating back to the ancient, Roman and Byzantine times, were found under the...

Bright Star is a multinational aeronautical military exercise in the Mediterranean Sea that was established in 1980, after a peace agreement was signed a year earlier in USA’s Camp David between Egypt and Israel under Jimmy Carter’s administration. Since then,...

The prime focus of Israel, Greece, and Cyprus right now is to develop the Eastern Mediterranean pipeline which is a great project, and could be one of the great underwater projects in the world, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

By Heini-Sofia Alavuo As Greeks try to cut the amount of plastic clogging up their seas and environment, a new report released on Friday -- World Oceans Day -- claims the Mediterranean has the highest levels of plastics pollution in the world. The research...

"We are three countries washed by the same Mediterranean waters; we want to ensure peace, prosperity and cooperation," Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday. The Greek PM spoke during the 4th Greece-Cyprus-Israel Summit held in Nicosia with energy...

Turkey's seismic exploration ship Oruc Reis will start operating in the Aegean as early as next week, Daily Sabah says. Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak announced that, "Our vessel will start a three-dimensional seismic search in the Mediterranean...