With tensions between Greece and Turkey at their highest in decades over competing claims for territorial rights and gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean, “all options” will be on the table to persuade Ankara to cease its belligerent behaviour in the region, according to EU officials.

Greece held air and naval exercises with its allies in the eastern Mediterranean during the week of 24 August. (Greek General Staff)

“This situation could lead to an unwanted escalation: it needs to be defused,” German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer told reporters after a 26 August meeting in Berlin with her EU counterparts. She said new naval exercises in the region involving the two opponents “are not helpful and we all agree on that”, adding that “we must create more space to allow talks to start”.

Cyprus, France, Greece, and Italy launched three days of war games on 26 August off southern Cyprus, while the Turkish and US navies exercised nearby. This followed a joint Greek-US exercise the day before involving the Hellenic Navy frigate Aegean, a Type 214 submarine, and six Hellenic Air Force F-16 fighters, the destroyer USS Winston Churchill, and naval helicopters from both countries.

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With tensions between Greece and Turkey at their highest in decades over competing claims for territorial rights and gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean, “all options” will be on the table to persuade Ankara to cease its belligerent behaviour in the region, according to EU officials.

Greece held air and naval exercises with its allies in the eastern Mediterranean during the week of 24 August. (Greek General Staff)

“This situation could lead to an unwanted escalation: it needs to be defused,” German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer told reporters after a 26 August meeting in Berlin with her EU counterparts. She said new naval exercises in the region involving the two opponents “are not helpful and we all agree on that”, adding that “we must create more space to allow talks to start”.

Cyprus, France, Greece, and Italy launched three days of war games on 26 August off southern Cyprus, while the Turkish and US navies exercised nearby. This followed a joint Greek-US exercise the day before involving the Hellenic Navy frigate Aegean, a Type 214 submarine, and six Hellenic Air Force F-16 fighters, the destroyer USS Winston Churchill, and naval helicopters from both countries.

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With tensions between Greece and Turkey at their highest in decades over competing claims for territorial rights and gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean, “all options” will be on the table to persuade Ankara to cease its belligerent behaviour in the region, according to EU officials.

Greece held air and naval exercises with its allies in the eastern Mediterranean during the week of 24 August. (Greek General Staff)

“This situation could lead to an unwanted escalation: it needs to be defused,” German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer told reporters after a 26 August meeting in Berlin with her EU counterparts. She said new naval exercises in the region involving the two opponents “are not helpful and we all agree on that”, adding that “we must create more space to allow talks to start”.

Cyprus, France, Greece, and Italy launched three days of war games on 26 August off southern Cyprus, while the Turkish and US navies exercised nearby. This followed a joint Greek-US exercise the day before involving the Hellenic Navy frigate Aegean, a Type 214 submarine, and six Hellenic Air Force F-16 fighters, the destroyer USS Winston Churchill, and naval helicopters from both countries.

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With tensions between Greece and Turkey at their highest in decades over competing claims for territorial rights and gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean, “all options” will be on the table to persuade Ankara to cease its belligerent behaviour in the region, according to EU officials.

Greece held air and naval exercises with its allies in the eastern Mediterranean during the week of 24 August. (Greek General Staff)

“This situation could lead to an unwanted escalation: it needs to be defused,” German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer told reporters after a 26 August meeting in Berlin with her EU counterparts. She said new naval exercises in the region involving the two opponents “are not helpful and we all agree on that”, adding that “we must create more space to allow talks to start”.

Cyprus, France, Greece, and Italy launched three days of war games on 26 August off southern Cyprus, while the Turkish and US navies exercised nearby. This followed a joint Greek-US exercise the day before involving the Hellenic Navy frigate Aegean, a Type 214 submarine, and six Hellenic Air Force F-16 fighters, the destroyer USS Winston Churchill, and naval helicopters from both countries.

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With tensions between Greece and Turkey at their highest in decades over competing claims for territorial rights and gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean, “all options” will be on the table to persuade Ankara to cease its belligerent behaviour in the region, according to EU officials.

Greece held air and naval exercises with its allies in the eastern Mediterranean during the week of 24 August. (Greek General Staff)

“This situation could lead to an unwanted escalation: it needs to be defused,” German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer told reporters after a 26 August meeting in Berlin with her EU counterparts. She said new naval exercises in the region involving the two opponents “are not helpful and we all agree on that”, adding that “we must create more space to allow talks to start”.

Cyprus, France, Greece, and Italy launched three days of war games on 26 August off southern Cyprus, while the Turkish and US navies exercised nearby. This followed a joint Greek-US exercise the day before involving the Hellenic Navy frigate Aegean, a Type 214 submarine, and six Hellenic Air Force F-16 fighters, the destroyer USS Winston Churchill, and naval helicopters from both countries.

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With tensions between Greece and Turkey at their highest in decades over competing claims for territorial rights and gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean, “all options” will be on the table to persuade Ankara to cease its belligerent behaviour in the region, according to EU officials.

Greece held air and naval exercises with its allies in the eastern Mediterranean during the week of 24 August. (Greek General Staff)

“This situation could lead to an unwanted escalation: it needs to be defused,” German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer told reporters after a 26 August meeting in Berlin with her EU counterparts. She said new naval exercises in the region involving the two opponents “are not helpful and we all agree on that”, adding that “we must create more space to allow talks to start”.

Cyprus, France, Greece, and Italy launched three days of war games on 26 August off southern Cyprus, while the Turkish and US navies exercised nearby. This followed a joint Greek-US exercise the day before involving the Hellenic Navy frigate Aegean, a Type 214 submarine, and six Hellenic Air Force F-16 fighters, the destroyer USS Winston Churchill, and naval helicopters from both countries.

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