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Greece has described as "provocative" claims by Turkey's prime minister that its forces removed a Greek flag from an Aegean islet, saying there had been no violation of Greek territory. Greek government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos told reporters on Monday that...

Turkish premier Binali Yildirim spoke with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras by phone on Thursday, expressing condolences over the death of a Hellenic Air Force pilot earlier in the day. State-run Anadolu Agency confirmed the two prime ministers spoke in...

Greece is not to be taken seriously and is "the size of one of our cities" according to reported comments attributed to Turkey's prime minister on Wednesday. According to Greek newspaper Kathimerini, Binali Yildirim was quoted as saying: “Don’t take Greece...

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has said the country will "never tolerate certain circles which violate our sovereignty in the Mediterranean and Aegean" -- a thinly veiled reference to Greece and Cyprus. Yildirim also referred to "pirates" in the Aegean...

Senior figures from Greece's main opposition party met Turkey's prime minister and foreign minister recently in Germany. New Democracy head Kyriakos Mitsotakis and shadow foreign minister Giorgos Koumoutsakos met the pair on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in...

The Turkish Navy was again provocative as, for the second time this week, two Turkish warships passed by eight Greek islands. The missile ship ZIPKIN and the frigate YILDIRIM entered and violated the national territorial waters between Mykonos, Naxos, Syros,...