Türkiye’s natural gas import contracts with Russia are set to expire at the end of 2025, and negotiations have accelerated as the deadline approaches. According to Turkish media reports, alongside both governments, Russia’s Gazprom and Türkiye’s state pipeline operator BOTAŞ are still at the negotiating table. As talks between Türkiye and Russia continue, two closely related developments have drawn attention: ...
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, from Athens / Greece The Greek government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, by common consent one of the worst in Greek history (*), is now triumphantly claiming a major success by making Greece a “hub” for American LNG. In the past, starting with Spyros Markezinis in the 1950s and continuing with the governments of Konstantinos Karamanlis, Andreas Papandreou, and ...
On October 15, European Union energy ministers reached a draft agreement to ban Russian energy imports as of January 1, 2028. For the draft to take effect, it still needs approval from the European Parliament, with the process expected to be completed by the end of the year. Under the proposal, gas imports will only be permitted if companies can ...
An EU regulation being developed under the “REPowerEU regulation” framework now explicitly mentions TurkStream. Connecting Russia with Türkiye via 2 pipelines, TurkStream serves both domestic Turkish energy gas market and reexports to Europe. After the transit agreement between Russia and Ukraine expired on 1 January 2025, TurkStream became the only remaining major pipeline route for Russian gas into Europe. On ...
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, from Athens / Greece For the Israeli elite and its media, the protests against Israel’s policies in Greece—especially the demonstrations when cruise ships carrying so-called Israeli “tourists” approach Greek ports—are unbearably irritating. We say “so-called tourists” because many of these passengers are soldiers on leave, resting after the horrific war crimes they commit, which are surpassing the ...
Vatan Party Chairman Doğu Perinçek addressed the people on Saturday, May 24, 2025 at an Outdoor Meeting organized by the Vatan Party at the Post Office Square in Edirne, city bordering Greece. Perinçek stated that Türkiye was targeted in the NATO exercises under the command of the United States, which will start in Alexandroupoli on May 26, 2025, and will ...
By Yiğit Saner Washington recently gave the green light to the sale of 40 F-35 fighter jets, a total of $8.6 billion worth, to Athens. According to the Greek news outlet Kathimerini, in addition to the aircraft sale, the US will also provide $200 million Foreign Military Financing assistance to Greece. The Greek newspaper further reported that, in exchange for ...
By Tevfik Kadan The US House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which involves a decision to establish new bases on the Aegean islands. The bill, which encompasses the budget for the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) for the fiscal year 2024 and sets defense spending policies, was passed in the House of Representatives last month. The $886 billion bill includes a ...
The Greek authorities announced this week the arrest of two Pakistani migrant land workers in Greece who were accused of planning a terrorist attack against a Jewish restaurant in central Athens, a restaurant which is serving also as a synagogue (sic). The supposed terrorists were receiving orders from a compatriot of them leaving in Iran, who, in his turn, received ...
The railway tragedy in central Greece, where a still unknown number of mostly young people (probably more than 100) have perished, is an incomprehensible accident. In 2023, it is simply inconceivable that two trains will move on the same track and in opposite directions without anyone in the system – machine or human – watching them and averting the collision. Recently ...