🇬🇷 🇮🇱 Greece is set to finalize a $3.42 billion deal to acquire advanced, multilayered Israeli air defense systems.

The turks seem very excited. Calm down…😉

🔥EXCLUSIVE: Netanyahu has ordered Israel to prepare an ICC case against Erdoğan. According to @avishaigrinzaig via @i24NEWS_EN, the Justice Ministry’s International Division has spent recent weeks secretly assembling a legal file against the Turkish president. The case focuses on two tracks:
• Turkey’s campaign against the Kurds
• Ankara’s funding and support for Hamas The goal is not necessarily to file tomorrow. It is to build leverage after Erdoğan tried to use Interpol against Netanyahu. 🎇 It was long overdue. Turkey markets itself as a moral power and regional stabilizer while its policies have left thousands dead. Hakan Fidan’s record as MIT chief — the man who helped turn Turkey into a hub for Islamist networks — should not be forgotten. Turkish political exiles remain one of the most important sources for documenting how Erdoğan turned the country into a prison for thousands of innocents. i24news.tv/en/news/israel/di…

🇬🇷 The Best Defense Is a Good Offense: Greece's Deterrence Doctrine Gen. Dimitrios Houpis, Chief of the Hellenic Defence Staff, said Greece can execute "preemptive strikes of strategic depth and strategic effect", active deterrence, not passive defense. Military analysts spell out how it could unfold. A crisis escalates over the continental shelf, Turkish forces mobilize toward the Aegean. EYP intelligence, working with allied satellites, confirms the threat is imminent, and KYSEA, Greece's Government Council for National Security, authorizes action. Electronic warfare blinds enemy radars and drone links. Rafales and F-16 Vipers strike key airfields, grounding the opposing air force. Spike NLOS and Exocet batteries hit landing craft still in port. Kimon-class frigates and Patriot batteries then shield the Aegean from any retaliation that follows. Athens isn't threatening war. It's declaring that if one comes, it won't be fought on the back foot.

Turkey Continues Provocative Actions: Turkish Paratroopers Conducted Drills Opposite the Greek Island of Lemnos. Turkey conducted paratrooper and mobilization exercises opposite Lemnos as Ankara prepared legislation linked to its "Blue Homeland" doctrine.

🇬🇷 🇺🇸 PM Mitsotakis in New York: Greece is a country geopolitically punching above its weight, shaping new alliances with the United States in areas which are absolutely critical.

Professor Mazis: Turkey is first violating the existing legal framework, and then attempting to legitimize its actions through distorted interpretations aimed at challenging Hellenic sovereignty and sovereign rights. Professor Ioannis Mazis: Turkey practices "International Law, Turkish-style", invoking the law selectively and arbitrarily while refusing to ratify UNCLOS, all while pursuing illegal moves like fake NAVTEX notices and attempts to manufacture grey zones in the Aegean. Greece, by contrast, holds solid legal grounding under treaties and customary law. Turkey knows this, which is why it pushes "win-win" political arrangements instead of international courts with a clear compromis. Without an active Hellenic response inside the real legal framework, Ankara will keep eroding the status quo.

🇬🇷 ExxonMobil to Begin Drilling in Ionian Sea in Early 2027 The project is a critical step toward reducing Hellas' energy dependency. Energy Minister Stavros Papastavrou met ExxonMobil VP John Ardill in Houston. They discussed the Ionian Sea's first offshore exploratory drilling in 40 years, targeted for Q1 2027. The ExxonMobil-Energean-Helleniq Energy consortium aims to finalize preparations within 12 months.

🇬🇷 🇨🇾 🇮🇱 Cyprus Deepens Strategic Ties with American Jewish Committee Amid Regional Push President Christodoulides met AJC to discuss Cyprus' growing strategic role, deeper regional cooperation, and the Cyprus-Greece-Israel trilateral. Talks also covered the Eastern Mediterranean Gateway Act and the latest on Cyprus issue, including efforts to resume UN-led talks.

PM Mitsotakis: Ties with Turkey Are Delicate, "Carry the Weight of History" Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called Hellenic-Turkish relations delicate. "It carries the weight of history," he said. Regional challenges make he need urgent, he stressed. Athens seeks a common understanding on the way forward. That understanding must respect international law and good neighborly relations. "We cannot change our geography," Mitsotakis said. Hellas and Turkey are destined to live side by side. He reaffirmed UNCLOS as the only framework to resolve their dispute over continental shelf and exclusive economic zone delimitation.

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🇬🇷 🇮🇱 Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met today on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session. Netanyahu emphasized the importance of the strategic partnership between the two countries for regional stability and welcomed Greece's selection of Israeli defense systems. The two leaders also discussed regional developments, energy cooperation, and preparations for the next trilateral summit with Cyprus.

🇬🇷 ⚓️ The numbers speak for themselves: Europe's maritime strength runs through Greece. On World Maritime Day, Hellenic shipping stands out as a pillar of global trade. Its fleet numbers 5,800 vessels today, holds 61% of EU-controlled fleet capacity and, accounts for 19.1% of global merchant fleet tonnage. Hellenic shipping ranks first in oil tankers and LNG carriers, and second in bulk carriers. According to UNCTAD figures for the start of 2025, Greece leads global ship ownership with 5,124 vessels and 398 million deadweight tons, or 16.4% of the world total. China follows with 10,440 vessels, 347 million tons and 14.4%, then Japan with 4,083 vessels, 241 million tons and 9.9%. Together, the three hold over 40% of world shipping capacity. As Europe builds its maritime industrial strategy and seeks greater strategic autonomy, it also remains one of the continent's strongest maritime assets, bolstering energy security, resilience and competitiveness.

🇬🇷 🇦🇿 Greece Is Putting Energy Cooperation With Azerbaijan Squarely on the Agenda. Hellenic Ambassador to Azerbaijan Maria Papakonstantinou, has met the Board of Directors of energy group GL Group of Azerbaijan. Talks focused on exploring partnership opportunities in the energy sector and other potential areas of mutual interest.

🇬🇷 Greek-Operated Patriot System Intercepts Two Targets Over Saudi Arabia A Greek-operated Patriot air defense system in Saudi Arabia intercepted a ballistic missile and a drone over the wider Yanbu region, according to Greek security sources cited by Reuters. The Greek battery fired two Patriot missiles, successfully downing both targets. The incident marks the fifth combat use of the Greek-operated system since the US-Israeli war with Iran began in late February. Greece has operated a US-made Patriot battery in Saudi Arabia since 2021 to help protect the kingdom’s critical energy infrastructure. Source: Reuters

" Ώ Ζεύ ,τί δή χρυσού μέν ός κίβδηλος ή τεκμήρι' ανθρώποισιν ώπασας σαφή, ανδρών δ'ότω χρή τον κακόν διειδέναι, ουδείς χαρακτήρ εμπέφυκε σώματι;" ~ΕΥΡΙΠΙΔΗΣ, Μήδεια 📷ZEUS, Bronze Statue 6th-5th cen.Athens #Greece #United_Nations @DimAthanitis #Μητσοτάκης #ΟΗΕ #Hellenism

Christodoulides Turns Erdogan's UN Words Against Him Christodoulides: Fifty-two years of occupation, division will never be the future. Speaking at the 81st UN General Assembly on 23 September, Cypriot President Christodoulides answered Erdogan's speech of the previous day point by point. Fifty-two years after the invasion, he said, more than a third of the Republic's territory remains occupied and Varosha remains sealed off. Citing Erdogan's own appeals to the UN Charter, he called Turkey's conduct on Cyprus "hypocrisy of the highest form." He rejected division, reaffirmed a bizonal, bicommunal federation with political equality, and offered to resume talks from 2017. His message to Ankara: if you quote the Charter, apply it.

President of the Republic of Cyprus Christodoulides at his UN speech today: "I listened very carefully to President Erdoğan’s speech yesterday: references to international law, respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states, illegal occupation, and the plight of refugees. Yet, when it comes to Cyprus, Turkey does the exact opposite. The hypocrisy is staggering."

🔥Time for a new Troika — headed by Athens — to supervise the German economy? 🎇 Revenge is rarely elegant. It is, however, educational. The version by Zerohedge : “Revenge is sweet. It tastes all the sweeter the longer one has had to wait for it to arrive, and the deeper the pain of the humiliation that preceded it.” 🙂 Fifteen years ago the script was simple. Greece was the sinner. Cyprus was the cautionary tale. Northern Europe, led by Berlin, was the priest. Wolfgang Schäuble flew into Athens to lecture a country already on its knees, floated Grexit, and helped impose a programme of asset sales, pension cuts, hospital closures and mass unemployment under the threat that Europe would otherwise let the whole thing collapse. The same moral theatre was then staged in Nicosia: a depositor “haircut,” banks treated as laboratories, and another small country forced to swallow medicine that the authors of the recipe never intended to taste themselves. It was convenient. It turned a euro-design crisis, reckless bank lending and cheap German-financed credit into a morality play about “spendthrifts” and “lazy Southerners.” German banks and insurers had tens of billions in Greek paper. Taxpayers later underwrote the cleanup. The humiliation was public. The sermons were endless. The Schwarze Null ( “black zero.” that a federal budget that ends the year with no new net debt), was sacred — for others. Now the plot has inverted just enough to sting. Greece cut its debt ratio from crisis peaks near 180 percent toward the mid-140s, runs primary surpluses, and grows faster than the euro-area average after a decade of pain. Its finance minister, Kyriakos Pierrakakis — also president of the Eurogroup — tells Handelsblatt, with exquisite politeness, that fiscal reform hurts first and pays later. He even calls Germany the industrial locomotive of Europe. That is not flattery. That is a diagnosis delivered with a straight face. Meanwhile Berlin, under Friedrich Merz, has rewritten the debt-brake religion it once exported. Defence and infrastructure special funds, deficits heading well above the old sermons, new borrowing measured in the hundreds of billions, and the same capital that once wagged its finger now discovering that deindustrialisation, energy costs, an ageing welfare state and military rearmament do not fit inside a Swabian housekeeping booklet. The country that once treated 0.35 percent debt on GDP,as theology now lives on exceptions. So the question is not whether Germany is Greece. It is not. Its debt ratio is still far lower. The question is whether Europe is allowed one set of rules for the weak and another for the self-appointed virtuous. If the 2010s logic still holds — that fiscal sinners require external supervision, asset inventories, quarterly inspections and a Troika of the unembarrassed — then consistency would require a new mission. Athens has the recent experience. Nicosia remembers the banking haircut. Perhaps they should send the questionnaires this time: how many unused industrial sites, how many off-balance-sheet promises, how much moral capital remains after the lectures. A Greek-led Troika for Berlin is satire. The original one was not. That is the point.A lesson in history might make the “powerful” to embrace some humility ? 💥The cost of doing nothing, @Pierrakakis said, is higher than the cost of reform. Berlin used to say that to everyone else. It might now try listening. #economics #Fiscalpolicy #humility ▪️Relevant post via @ZeroHedge — Germany’s Debt King Merz Gets a Greek Lesson in Fiscal Policy 🔗 zerohedge.com/economics/germ…

Η Τουρκία απαιτεί προειδοποιήσεις, αναμενόμενο. Εάν τελικά εκτός από NAVTEX γίνει κοινοποίηση σε παράκτια κράτη αυτό δεν θα είναι αναμενόμενο, αφού το UNCLOS δεν το απαιτεί, αλλά υποχώρηση και έμμεση αναγνώριση των διεκδικήσεων της Τουρκίας!

🇬🇷 🇪🇬 🇨🇾 Greece, Egypt and Cyprus Sign Joint Defense Declaration in Cairo Greece, Egypt and Cyprus signed a joint declaration in Cairo following the 6th trilateral meeting of their defense ministers, strengthening military and defense cooperation among the three countries. The declaration calls for enhanced coordination, intelligence-sharing and a collective capacity for a rapid and unified response to future threats, while also emphasizing the protection of maritime and energy infrastructure in the Eastern Mediterranean. The ministers also praised the MEDUSA multinational exercise and agreed to hold the next trilateral defense ministers' meeting in Greece in 2027.