Rubio's visit comes as Greece aims to highlight it role as a factor of stability and security in the region

Despite Erdogan's conciliatory speech at the United Nations, Greek officials see no real change in Turkish policy and expect new confrontation over the Greece and Cyprus power cable and Ankara's "Blue Homeland" bill

Ankara’s demand for 'prior coordination' over cable-laying work puts the meaning of ‘notification’ and ‘consent’ at the center of a wider dispute over maritime rights in the eastern Med

Greece’s defense minister, Nikos Dendias, reaffirms Athens’ support for Cyprus, during Independence Day commemoration

The U.S. secretary of state is expected to land Tuesday night, with the talks set for the next day. Energy and defense are likely to top an agenda still being finalized, as rhetoric between Greece and Turkey heats up.

The Greek prime minister is expected to stress that UNCLOS is the framework for maritime disputes and to highlight Greece’s role as a regional pillar of stability

Erdogan added that Ankara has no interest in Greece’s domestic politics and that bilateral ties are too sensitive to be used as election campaign material

Mitsotakis and Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis are holding a flurry of meetings in New York ahead of the prime minister's General Assembly address on Thursday, including talks with U.N. chief António Guterres and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney

Greece and Turkey are once again locked in a cycle of tensions over the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, raising questions over whether their leaders will seek a channel for de-escalation during the UN General Assembly

The Greek delegation, led by PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis, is expected to highlight international law, freedom of navigation and regional stability as Greek-Turkish maritime differences remain unresolved

Greece is ready to pursue maritime delimitation with Turkey, but Ankara must withdraw its casus belli and abandon unilateral claims, former FM says during address at the 49th annual conference on Oceans Law & Policy

Erdogan’s closeness to President Trump may well have engendered self-confidence. But it does not produce power. And, however things pan out, Ankara's gradual estrangement from the European Union does not bode well for Turkey’s future

Kyriakos Mitsotakis says no meeting with President Erdogan is currently scheduled; says government weighing measures to curb heating costs

The foreign ministry says Ankara’s demilitarization demands have no basis in international law, while stressing Greece’s right to defend its territory and pointing to Turkey's continuing casus belli

'We threaten no one but accept no threats from anyone,' was the widely reproduced 'headline' statement made by the Greek prime minister; support measures remote island

A state’s power is not measured only by its weapons systems, alliances or economy. It is also measured by its ability to know what it seeks, maintain its strategic direction and act before its choices are constrained by others

From Kastellorizo, the PM sent a clear message to Turkey and unveiled a €5,000 annual incentive for island residents

Rising tensions between Turkey and Israel are raising concern in Athens as Greece seeks to deepen strategic ties with Israel while avoiding further strains with Ankara

Turkey stepped up military activity over the eastern Aegean on Friday, Greek with six F-16s and three UAVs recording 10 violations of Greek airspace and 10 infringements of air-traffic rules in the Athens FIR. The Turkish aircraft operated over the northeastern, central and southeastern Aegean. Four of the F-16s were armed, reports state. Two incidents […]

The prime minister’s visit to remote Kastellorizo is therefore taking place against a backdrop of heightened Turkish activity and rhetoric in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean.