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Türkiye is preparing to declare 152 islands whose sovereignty has not been transferred as Turkish territory. It has been announced that the President will be given the authority to declare "special status maritime areas" in areas that have not been declared as economic zones.

Turkey passing a law to own Greek islands is like me passing a law in my living room to own the Eiffel Tower :)

🇬🇷 Defence Minister Nikos Dendias warns that Greece is ready to respond firmly to Turkish aggression.

🇬🇷 🇯🇵 Greek-Japanese Partnership: Maran Tankers Signs Five-Year Agreement with Nikkiso Maran Tankers Management, one of Greece’s leading crude oil and product tanker operators within the Angelicoussis Group, has entered into a strategic five-year marine service agreement with Japan’s Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group. The agreement will provide comprehensive maintenance, repair, and spare-parts support for high-pressure cryogenic pumps across Maran Tankers’ expanding LNG-capable and dual-fuel fleet, enhancing operational reliability and reinforcing Greece’s growing role in sustainable maritime shipping.

Greece Takes Firm Action Against Illegal Migration Surge from Libya Officials have issued a warning regarding the approximately 550,000 migrants currently in Libya who are preparing to embark on a dangerous sea journey to Europe. To safeguard its borders, Greece has temporarily suspended asylum applications for sea arrivals from North Africa. Greek Migration Minister Thanos Plevris made clear that individuals who do not meet the criteria for international protection will be detained and swiftly returned. Greek officials are intensifying cooperation with Frontex and Libyan partners to dismantle smuggling networks and prevent illegal departures, demonstrating the country’s strong determination to safeguard its borders and national interests.

While Turkey Continues Its Illegal Military Occupation of EU Sovereign Territory in Cyprus, the European Commission Delivers Another €20 Million to Turkey European Commission: "The EU will provide €20 million in humanitarian aid in 2026 to support vulnerable refugees and host communities in Turkey."

🇬🇷 🇳🇱 Defence Minister Nikos Dendias met with the new Dutch Ambassador, Barbara van Hellemond, in Athens to discuss expanding bilateral defence cooperation between Greece and the Netherlands within the frameworks of #NATO and the #EU.

Air Show – 95 Years of the Hellenic Air Force 🇬🇷 📹 @Phaedra969

Turkey’s Maritime Expansionism Is Rooted in Revisionism They apply 12 nautical miles elsewhere while threatening Greece with war for asserting the same right in the Aegean, a clear contradiction. According to a recent Bloomberg report, Ankara is preparing legislation to formalize its expansive maritime claims in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean. Turkey will frame this as "fairness." In reality, it is another revisionist attempt to rewrite established international maritime law at the expense of Hellenic sovereign rights. Under UNCLOS, the globally accepted framework governing maritime rights, inhabited islands generate territorial waters, continental shelves, and EEZs just like mainland territory. The Hellenic position is grounded in this legal order. Turkey refuses to sign UNCLOS precisely because it rejects the implications of islands possessing full maritime rights. Ankara's argument essentially asks the world to pretend major Hellenic islands near the Turkish coast either generate reduced maritime zones or none at all. But international courts have consistently recognized islands as legitimate sources of maritime jurisdiction. Geography does not erase sovereignty. The contradiction becomes even sharper when Turkey's own practice is examined. Ankara applies 12 nautical miles in the Black Sea and much of the Mediterranean, yet maintains a standing casus belli against Greece for exercising the exact same right in the Aegean. That is not legal consistency. It is revisionist geopolitics. This dispute is not simply about maps or gas reserves. It is about whether international law applies equally to all states, including maritime and island nations, or whether regional powers can demand exceptions whenever the rules become inconvenient. The Hellenic position aligns with international jurisprudence, EU policy, and the broader rules-based maritime order. Unilateral attempts to institutionalize disputed claims risk further destabilizing an already fragile region. - Greek Report

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🚨 Legitimacy Laundering 101 — How Turkey’s irredentism gets a glossy social-media makeover. @SinanCiddi just dropped an article revealing Turkey’s media strategy in the grey zone : “In my latest for @dcexaminer, I document Ankara’s strategy of ‘legitimacy laundering’ utilizing platforms such as @clashreport & @trtworld & @cnnturk ‘By embedding pro-Ankara narratives within ostensibly neutral reporting, these platforms lend credibility to Turkish foreign policy positions, ranging from Syria to Gaza, without provoking the skepticism typically directed at official state outlets.’ This isn’t just spin — it’s whitewashing irredentism in real time.Turkey devotes substantial resources for pushing propaganda “communications” in social media 💰 Neo-Ottoman ambitions, revanchist maps, and aggressive cross-border ops get repackaged as “balanced coverage” or “breaking news.” Same playbook, new filter. Social media isn’t just where narratives spread — it’s where they get laundered into legitimacy Read the full piece and decide for yourself👉🏻washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4559284… Who else is noticing this pattern? Drop your thoughts 👇 #LegitimacyLaundering #Turkey #Irredentism #SocialMediaPropaganda

Another account, @hermes_z, part of Turkey's propaganda machine. No different than @clashreport or @TurkishCentury. The video is from Turkey's invasion of Cyprus in 1974, part of which is occupied by Turkey still. Similar images have been uploaded by the "tender-hearted" and "humane" Turkish propaganda machine. Most of them, if not all, have been proven to be one of the many propaganda gimmicks exercised as all the "actors" encountered with Turkish "charity" have been later found murdered in wells and unmarked (mass) graves. I list here below three facts only, there are more, acts confirmed by UN resolutions and the European Court of Human Rights, facts that condemn Turkey: 1. One-third of the Greek population of Cyprus was displaced (162,000 out of the then in 1974 population was 507,500 - the total population then was 663,254). Since 1974, Turkey has implemented a systematic policy of settlement of the occupied part of Cyprus with the mass transfer of more than 160,000 Turks from Turkey in order to change the demographic profile and alter the population balance on the island. This policy, together with driving the Greek -Cypriot inhabitants out of the region, the destruction of the cultural heritage, and the illegal change of geographical place names in the occupied part of Cyprus, aims at the elimination of every single, millennia-old Greek and Christian element, and eventually the "turkification" of the region. The forcible removal of one-third of the island's Greek population from the north, preventing their return and altering the demographic structure through the importation of settlers, is ethnic cleansing. 2. Over 2,000 people went missing following the invasion, with many cases showing they were last seen under the custody of Turkish forces. To comprehend the numbers involved, at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 - a war with direct participation of the US of 8 years - 2,646 Americans were listed as missing. The Turkish invasion of Cyprus lasted about one month. 3. Numerous Greek women and girls (men also) were subjected to sexual violence and rape by Turkish soldiers, often at gunpoint. The rapes were not isolated incidents of indiscipline but rather widespread, deliberate, with many raped multiple times. Victims ranged in age from children to elderly. The so-called Turkish "Peace Operation" in Cyprus in 1974 was anything but related to peace! It was an operation of barbarism and inhumanity, and those that support and promote it can be nothing less but barbarians and inhumane. | #Turkey #AKtrolls #Cyprus #OccupiedCyprus

According to a report by Bloomberg, Turkey is preparing to submit a bill to parliament aimed at institutionalizing aggressive maritime claims in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean. This move constitutes a clear violation of Greece’s international legal rights and a threat to its regional sovereignty and security rights.

🇬🇷 🛡️ 🇮🇱 Greece's Aerial Defence Transformation: The Achilles' Shield Programme As part of its “Achilles’ Shield” modernisation initiative, Hellenic Republic is advancing plans to integrate all combat-proven three Israeli-origin air defence platforms, David's Sling, Barak MX, and SPYDER, forming a dense, interlocking defensive shield. Each system addresses a distinct threat layer: SPYDER handles short to medium range threats including UAVs and cruise missiles. Barak MX covers medium-range manned aircraft and ballistic threats. And David’s Sling provides long-range coverage extending to approximately 300 kilometres. All three will integrate with Greece’s existing Patriot batteries, creating a fully NATO-compatible architecture. This layered configuration is part of an ongoing strategic plan intended to meaningfully constrain the operational freedom of Turkish UAVs, combat aircraft, and rotary-wing assets, a deterrence central to the programme’s logic. The precise number of David’s Sling and Barak MX batteries and their deployment locations have not been officially confirmed. However, when confirmed, it would represent a landmark achievement, giving the Hellenic Army one of the most capable air defence networks in Southeast Europe and a credible, technologically advanced answer to regional aerial threats. - Greek Report

UAE, Greece Deepen Strategic Partnership horndiplomat.com/uae-greece-dee… #Greece #UAE Via @HornDiplomat

If anybody in the Foreign Ministries of Europe and the USA honestly wonders whom Turkey’s ballistic missiles target, or thinks those claiming Turkey is the new Iran are exaggerating, the Turkish press reveals otherwise. Turkish pro-Erdogan press hails the YILDIRIMHAN Missile: “To Athens in 1 Minute” #Greece “To Israel in 5 mins” Turkey has been lecturing Europe on how vital this is to its security. It now openly demonstrates that its ballistic missiles can hit every European capital. Note: no Turkish newspaper suggests that Moscow or Tehran might be a target. Report by @edotourkia “With claims that the new Turkish hypersonic missile YILDIRIMHAN can reach “Athens in 1 minute and Israel in 5 minutes,” the pro-government Turkish press is extensively promoting the new long-range ballistic system unveiled yesterday at the SAHA 2026 exhibition in Istanbul. The newspaper Türkiye ran the headline “YILDIRIMHAN Has Taken to the Field,” claiming that the four-engine missile, which elevates Turkey to the world league, can reach Israel in 5 minutes and Athens in 1 minute. It also states that the missile can strike a target 6,000 kilometers away in 20 minutes and carry a 970-kilogram GAZAP bomb. Turkish newspapers present the missile as a “strategic leap” for the country’s defense industry, emphasizing reactions from the foreign press, mainly in Israel and Greece. Hürriyet’s headline is “Our Giant Missile YILDIRIMHAN,” noting its 6,000-kilometer range as Turkey’s largest and longest-range missile yet. Sabah writes “YILDIRIMHAN Shattered the Data,” claiming the weapon “shook the world” and caused concern in the West. Yeni Şafak’s headline is “Turkey’s Power Is in the Field,” presenting YILDIRIMHAN as proof that Ankara has entered a new era of military power. Akşam follows with “YILDIRIMHAN Has Taken to the Field,” promoting it as a strategic weapon that changes regional balances and highlighting reactions from Israel and Greece. Milliyet takes a military angle with “Preparation for Fifth-Generation Warfare,” arguing that Turkey is entering the category of states capable of developing intercontinental ballistic missiles. According to Turkish reports, the YILDIRIMHAN is a hypersonic ballistic missile with a 6,000-kilometer range, a 3,000-kilogram explosive warhead, and speeds of Mach 9 to Mach 25. Akşam cites foreign media: Israeli Maariv described it as a “monster of the apocalypse that surprised the world,” while Greek media say its development “could change the strategic balances in the region.” Turkish publications emphasize that the missile’s range covers large parts of Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. The promotion highlights Turkey’s defense industry as independent and globally competitive.” Το άρθρο στα Ελληνικά 👉🏻 edotourkia.gr/el/tourkika-ne… Translation in English by @Grok

Analyst Shay Gal (@ShayGal84): “The new strategic center in the Eastern Mediterranean is the Greece–Cyprus–Israel axis” Speaking at a strategic security forum in Athens, analyst Shay Gal stated that Turkey’s activities in the Eastern Mediterranean are no longer viewed as separate issues, but as parts of a single strategic system. Gal argued that files involving the Aegean, Cyprus, Libya, Akkuyu, Hamas, and Somalia are now being assessed collectively within the framework of NATO and European security, adding that the Greece–Cyprus–Israel axis is emerging as the region’s new strategic center. He also stressed that “Akkuyu is safe only as long as it remains harmless,” emphasizing the need for Europe to adopt a more decisive posture in the Eastern Mediterranean.

From Athens, I delivered a message to Ankara: The Turkish perimeter is no longer hidden. On Monday, I delivered the keynote address at a strategic forum held at ELISME (@elisme_heliss) - the Hellenic Institute for Strategic Studies, in cooperation with IIS - the International Institute of Strategy. The room brought together former defence ministers, politicians from across the Greek political spectrum, senior military officers, ambassadors, foreign ministry officials, scholars, analysts and journalists for a serious discussion on the future of Eastern Mediterranean security. The message was clear: The Aegean, occupied Cyprus, Libya, Hamas, Somalia, the Bosphorus, Akkuyu, Western airpower and NATO ambiguity are no longer separate files. They are one system. And that system has been mapped. Occupied Cyprus is in strategic planning. Akkuyu is in the NATO resilience file. The Turkey-Libya line is in the evidence file. Hamas structures on Turkish soil are in the threat file. Western airpower in Turkish hands is in the discipline file. This is not rhetoric. It is classification. And classification precedes consequence. Occupation does not create immunity. Fiction does not become a border. Article 5 is not a spell. It does not shield Russian leverage, occupied platforms or terrorist command nodes. Akkuyu is safe only while it is harmless. Ambiguity does not protect what has already been identified. Europe does not lack power. It lacks reflex. If Europe cannot defend Cyprus, secure Greek maritime space and protect the infrastructure linking Greece, Cyprus and Israel, then it has no strategic autonomy. It has vocabulary. America remains indispensable. But indispensable is not a foundation. The Eastern Mediterranean is no longer waiting for permission. It has a center: Greece, Cyprus and Israel. Turkey drew fiction. Now the region draws consequence. * Special thanks to Lieutenant General Ioannis Baltzois, President of ELISME, @johnbaltzois, for the honour of addressing such a serious strategic forum in Athens. * 🔗 @GeopoliticoGR - with thanks to @cirithungol21, who was among the organizers of the event: geopolitico.gr/2026/05/sai-gk… IIS - with thanks to @andreasmoun: iistrategy.net/proti-omilia-t…

According to a report by Ellada24, Greece produces more attack drones than Iran.

🇬🇷 🇮🇱 Greece-Israel Coordination on the Sumud Flotilla: A Strategic Alignment Greece is not a passive bystander in Eastern Mediterranean security, it is an active, trusted partner of a regional military power. The interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla near Crete in late April 2026 has thrown into sharp relief the depth of Greece's strategic alignment with Israel, and why that alignment serves Greek national interests. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar publicly thanked Greece "for its willingness to receive the flotilla participants," after the Israeli Navy intercepted the flotilla, comprised of 58 boats, overnight between Wednesday and Thursday off the coast of Crete, hundreds of nautical miles from Israel. Greece's Ministry of Foreign Affairs coordinated the operation together with the Coast Guard, the National Defense General Staff, and the administration of Crete. For Greek ineterests, this episode carries a clear message: Greece is not a passive bystander in Eastern Mediterranean security, it is an active, trusted partner of a regional military power. At a time when Turkey brands Israel's actions "an act of piracy" and positions itself as champion of the Palestinian cause, Greece's quiet but firm cooperation with Israel drives a strategic wedge between Athens and Ankara, reinforcing that the two countries occupy opposing poles of regional order. Critically, Greece assumed the role of receiving state without triggering a diplomatic crisis, demonstrating sovereign confidence and institutional competence. This is exactly the kind of low-profile, high-impact partnership that delivers geopolitical dividends without unnecessary escalation. The Sumud episode is not a humanitarian footnote. It is a data point confirming that the Greece-Israel axis is operational, tested under pressure, and increasingly indispensable. - Greek Report Analysis