Greece as a bulwark of the West – ekathimerini.com

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (l) talks with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades at the EU summit in Brussels, on October 2. Greece, Cyprus and Israel form a security community of liberal democracies with common interests and values. [EPA] The recent visit by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo secured the future of Greek-American relations. Washington […]

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Erdogan’s Turkey is Punching Above Its Weight on Multiple Fronts – Morroco World News

The past few months have seen Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan take up an active role on many fronts, from Idlib to Tripoli, and now increasingly in the territorial dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia. On the Mediterranean front, the Turkish leader has bullied regional foes, urged Western allies, reassured Tripoli, all the while energetically telling anyone

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The EU’s Munich Moment – Vocal Europe – Opinion

Turkey feels fenced in and excluded by the creation of the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum and the MED7 (Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Spain). The MED7 at its recent meeting in Corsica expressed its determination to “use all adequate means at the disposal of the European Union” in response  to Turkey’s confrontational actions.[4] Macron has also called for a Pax Mediterranea.

In turn, in an echo of Hitler’s speech in Berlin’s Sportpalast in September 1938, where he laid claim to the Sudetenland, Erdogan has warned that “Turkey has the  political, economic and military power to tear up the immoral maps and documents [i.e. the Lausanne treaty of 1923] imposed on it” [5].

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Turkey piles up in rivals as Erdoğan’s Foreign Ministry turns into ‘Condemnation Ministry’ – Ahval

On Friday, credit rating agency Moody’s downgraded Turkey’s debt rating to ‘B2’ – lower than in 2002 when Erdoğan’s party came into power – citing rising geopolitical risks, among other concerns.  Turkey’s relationship with the West has become increasingly deadlocked in the past few years and especially in the past few weeks. Lately, the relationship

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Is there a solution to the Aegean dispute? – Green Political Foundation

Background – The disputes over the Aegean Sea clearly constitute the “core” of Greek-Turkish relations. Each side claims to be exclusively in the right, and that the other side is always being provocative and in the wrong. 9 September 2020 by Thodoros Tsikas The two countries need to abandon the “zero sum” approach, according to

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Turkish army seen pushing Erdogan to showdown with Europeans – Arab Weekly

Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar released a defiant photo of himself sitting inside an F-16 fighter jet at a military air base in Eskisehir, in western Turkey, during a training flight over the Gallipoli peninsula.

Akar’s photo reinforces the argument claiming that the hard-line military leaders in Turkey are the ones who are directing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan more than he is directing them, especially since the secularists among them were pushed aside for being suspected of involvement in the failed July 2016 attempted coup.

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Mitsotakis announces military spending to counter Turkish aggression – ekathimerini.com

Greece will strengthen its armed forces by buying new weapons systems, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced Saturday. Specifically, Greece will acquire 18 Rafale fighters, a full squadron’s strength, to replacing the aging Mirage 2000 planes; 4 new frigates, while refurbishing 4 existing ones; 4 Romeo naval helicopters; antitank weapons for the Army; torpedoes for the

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