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Analysis: What is Turkey’s 51st Commando Brigade being transferred opposite Samos? Its field experience & Hulusi Akar’s time with the Unit
From the mountains of Tunceli to Söke in Aydın – Why its new base opposite Samos carries strategic significance – Athens is closely monitoring the matter
Ankara provokes again over Mitsotakis’ visit to Kastellorizo: “The demilitarization status is being violated”
The Turkish Defense Ministry claims that the presence of military forces and a warship on the island violates its demilitarization status – “We closely monitored” the Greek prime minister’s meetings
First post-Thessaloniki International Fair polls put New Democracy above 30%: Findings from the Pulse & Opinion Polls
New Democracy at 30.5% in Pulse, 31% in Opinion Poll – “These figures are the springboard for a single-party majority,” a government source tells protothema.gr
What Turkey seeks by raising tensions with the “old formula” of island demilitarisation
Turkey’s encirclement syndrome has always been dominant in state policy, but now this “threat” is coming from its major regional rival, Israel
“We always keep reserves”: Mitsotakis signals fuel intervention – Announcements at end of September, measures on the table
Based on the data available so far, the fund contains between €150 million and €200 million as a “reserve” for the period from October through December, although it may be possible to do something better
Village of 350 declares “independence from the UK” over plans for asylum center
Piddington in Oxfordshire responds with a symbolic referendum to plans to turn a former military site into an asylum seeker accommodation center – Self-defence classes, security cameras and even a letter to Trump
Second vote on Constitutional Revision today: Mitsotakis & party leaders to speak, PASOK to vote “present” while opposition parties to say “Νο”
In the first vote, in July, PASOK and the opposition “sabotaged” any possibility of securing the enhanced consensus of at least 180 MPs that would have allowed the next Parliament to revise the Constitution by a simple majority
First meeting at Maximos Mansion today on international oil prices as difficult winter looms
The situation calls for intervention and there are fiscal reserves, but they are not unlimited – Based on the data available so far, there appears to be no intention of a unified European response to the sharp rise in prices
