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Turkey’s FM Highlights Opportunity to Improve Relations With Greece

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan is optimistic that a "great opportunity" now exists for the improvement of bilateral relations between Greece and Turkey. Athens and Ankara have often been at odds over a range of geostrategic issues, with relations being...

Did Turkey Deliver Humanitarian Aid to Greece During WWII?

In a little-known episode of World War II, the SS Kurtuluş delivered humanitarian aid from Turkey to Greece. Turkey's position during the war was ambiguous, and Ankara remained neutral until the war's final year. Turkey had signed a non-aggression pact...

Erdogan Warns Greece of Making Same Mistake that Led to 1922 Disaster

The President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that Greece is making the same mistake as in 1922. Speaking at the Victory Day concert to mark the defeat of the Greek Army in 1922 that led to the Asia Minor...

Greece Counters Turkey’s Claims in the Aegean to UN

Greece presented a letter to the United Nations on Thursday which countered the claims Turkey made regarding the sovereignty of Greek islands in the Aegean to the UN in September of last year. In the Turkish letter, the country claimed...

Turkey Accuses Greece of Seeking Military Superiority

Turkey accused Greece on Friday of seeking to achieve military superiority in the eastern Mediterranean, describing Athens’ ambition as "futile." “This is not an arms race but showing off weapons. They are striving for superiority against Turkey through armament by...

Erdogan Says Greece is “Lying” on Migrants; Threatens to Open Floodgates

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday accused Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of telling “lies” about migrant pushbacks and threatened to open the gates for migrants to storm into Greece. Erdogan's outburst followed Mitsotakis's statements on Tuesday when he...

Greece-Turkey Arms Race: Ankara Now Wants to Buy 40 F-16 Jets

Fears of an arms race between Greece and Turkey intensified on Friday after a Reuters report saying that Turkey has asked to buy 40 F-16 fighter jets from the US to upgrade its Air Force. The move coincides with...