August 10 was the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Sevres- it was also the day RV MTA Oruc Reis commenced its mission of seismic exploration in Turkey’s Eastern Mediterranean continental shelf, which had been postponed. As the RV MTA Oruc Reis departed from Antalya, while Greece, the EU and the United States began to launch counter-measures on every imaginable ...
Over the last week, Turkey celebrated Victory Day on the 30th. Escalating tensions with Greece on the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean Seas were another agenda of the Turkish public last week. What is Victory Day? August 30 is celebrated in Turkey as “Victory Day”, commemorating the end of the Turkish War of Independence. After the Ottoman defeat in World ...