Tensions between Greece and Turkey, both NATO members, continue to escalate in the Eastern Mediterranean region, which is increasingly looking more like a powder keg ready to explode, due to Turkey’s intransigence and aggression, which reached new heights after President Erdogan said, in no uncertain terms that he was done with Greek PM Mitsotakis.

In its latest provocations against Greece, Turkey dispatched the research ship, Yunus, from the Turkish coast in the early morning hours and is currently in the centre of the Aegean Sea.

It is a small boat, 24 meters long, which is also quite fast. To understand the size of the boat, it is enough to think that the Oruc Reis that had caused enormous tension in the recent past is almost four times longer than Yunus.