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8/19/2023 5:33:48 PM
Greek authorities on Saturday rescued nearly 60 migrants in inflatable dinghies trying to cross from Turkey to the nearby eastern Aegean Sea islands in two separate incidents, the coast guard said.
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12/7/2022 5:05:53 PM
Greece's foreign ministry has slammed what it called Turkish threats of war after the Turkish foreign minister threatened to ``take action'' against Greece in the wake of a military exercise in the Aegean Sea.
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12/6/2022 2:52:28 PM
Turkey's foreign minister on Tuesday again threatened to ``take action'' against Greece if it continues to arm its Aegean islands which Ankara says should remain demilitarized in line with international treaties.
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10/10/2022 10:54:17 PM
Setting aside longstanding strategic rivalry, Greece and Turkey on Monday inaugurated a "friendship line" ferry link between Thessalonika in northern Greece and the western Turkish port of Izmir.
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9/11/2022 10:41:53 AM
Greek Coast Guard ships opened fire on a cargo vessel sailing in international waters in the Aegean Sea, the Turkish Coast Guard said, escalating tensions between the regional rivals that have mounted in recent weeks.
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9/3/2022 3:28:45 PM
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday warned Greece it would pay a "heavy price" if it continued to "harass" Turkish planes over the Aegean.
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8/28/2022 12:15:16 PM
Turkey on Sunday alleged fellow NATO member Greece has used a Russian-made air defence system to harass Turkish jets on a reconnaissance mission, calling it a "hostile action".
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8/23/2022 9:12:21 PM
Greece will gradually extend a fence along its land border with Turkey and increase surveillance measures following an increase in illegal immigration from its eastern neighbor, the Greek government said Tuesday.
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7/24/2022 6:39:40 PM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday criticized Greece for allegedly violating a settlement that has governed relations between the rivals for nearly a century.
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7/11/2022 4:42:14 PM
Greece's prime minister called Monday on Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to clarify whether a map displayed by a nationalist ally of Erdogan's that showed several major, inhabited Greek islands as Turkish is official Turkish policy.
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6/19/2022 6:27:08 PM
Greek authorities said Sunday they have rescued 108 migrants from a sailboat that was found rudderless and leaking water in the Aegean Sea in near gale force winds.
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6/15/2022 2:47:32 PM
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis sought to reassure his compatriots late Tuesday that despite strong rhetoric from Turkey, relations are not at the low of 2020 when the neighbors' warships were shadowing each other in the eastern Mediterranean.
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6/9/2022 10:44:28 PM
Greece on Thursday published a series of historical maps looking to refute Turkish accusations that Athens is violating peace treaties that followed World War I and World War II.
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6/9/2022 4:14:08 PM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday warned Greece to demilitarize islands in the Aegean Sea, saying he was ``not joking'' with the admonition.
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6/7/2022 7:36:10 PM
Turkey on Tuesday called on Greece to withdraw its armed forces from Aegean islands, warning that his country will challenge the status of the islands if it fails to demilitarise them.
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6/1/2022 2:37:34 PM
Turkey will no longer hold high-level talks with neighboring Greece, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday amid rising tensions between the traditional rivals.
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5/27/2022 2:47:22 PM
Iranian state media reported Friday that Tehran has demanded the release of a ship seized by Greek authorities in their waters allegedly under pressure by Washington last month.
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5/26/2022 6:14:34 PM
Greece has told the head of the United Nations that Turkey is directly challenging its sovereignty over islands in the eastern Aegean Sea, and pursuing a hostile and ``revisionist'' policy that is destabilizing the region.
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1/8/2022 7:21:32 PM
Greece should refrain from testing Turkey's patience with provocations, including with a threat to extend its territorial waters in the Aegean, Turkey's defense minister warned on Saturday.
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12/25/2021 12:56:39 PM
Greek coast guards scoured for survivors in the Aegean Sea on Saturday after the latest in a series of migrant boat accidents that have killed at least 30 people in just days.
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