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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (L) pose after a signing ceremony following a meeting of Turkey/Greek High-Level Cooperation Council at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkey, on February 11, 2026. (Adem ALTAN / AFP)
February 11, 2026, 10:41 pm
Turkish and Greek leaders hold talks, voice desire to resolve maritime disputes
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan stress dialogue and trust after meeting, reaffirm trade goal of $10 billion, share aim to warm relations
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A fragmentary statue of Pharaoh Ahmose I seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Wikipedia)
November 29, 2025, 9:47 am
Study anchors obscure pharaoh in time, opening research path into dating the Exodus
A PLOS ONE paper places Ahmose’s reign over Egypt decades after the famous Thera volcanic eruption in the Aegean Sea, with vast implications for the region’s history
By Rossella Tercatin
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis talks to the media during a press conference after a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, at Maximos Mansion in Athens, October 27, 2022. (AP/Michael Varaklas)
October 27, 2022, 3:11 pm
Greece ready to ‘extend a hand of friendship’ to Turkey despite increased tensions
PM Mitostakis accuses Erdogan of spreading lies among Turks; German chancellor pans Ankara for questioning Greek sovereignty on islands
By Elena Becatoros
Researchers screen for finds at the Stelida, archaeological site in Greece in 2017. (Jason Lau/courtesy)
October 24, 2019, 9:12 pm
Upending wisdom, Stone Age pre-humans traveled Mediterranean 200,000 years ago
Findings in Greece could rewrite accepted narrative of how early humans reached Europe; study’s authors raise possibility that pre-sapien hominins used boats
By Luke Tress
Illustrative: A Turkish ship sails up the Bosphorus to the Black Sea. (Screen capture: Dogan News Agency)
July 3, 2017, 11:08 pm
Turkish captain claims ship came under Greek fire
Greece says ‘warning shots’ fired after suspected drug smuggling vessel refused orders to stop; Turkey calls incident ‘outrageous’
By AFP
Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos prepares to throw a wreath over the area of the Imia Islets in the Aegean Sea from a helicopter on February 2, 2017 in memory of three Greek Air Force officers who lost their lives during a crisis between Greece and Turkey back in 1996. (Stringer/Eurokinissi/AFP)
February 5, 2017, 6:34 am
Tensions flare between uneasy allies Greece and Turkey
Long-time foes clash over disputed Aegean island and Greece’s asylum to Turkish officers implicated in anti-Erdogan coup
By Stuart Williams and Fulya Ozerkan
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses an annual economy and trade meeting of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016. (Yasin Bulbul, Presidential Press Service/Pool Photo via AP)
November 25, 2016, 11:37 am
Erdogan threatens to open Turkey borders to migrants after EU vote
European Parliament freezes membership talks with Ankara
By AFP
Illustrative: A refugee girl looks on as refugees and migrants on a rubber boat arrive at the northern Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey, in Mytilene, on February 23, 2016. (Aris Messinis/AFP)
October 8, 2016, 11:27 am
After six-month lull, Greek islanders fear new refugee wave
EU-Turkey deal has drastically reduced the number of new arrivals from Syria, but Ankara has threatened to scuttle it
By Catherine BOITARD
Pope Francis greets migrants and refugees at the Moria refugee camp on April 16, 2016 near the port of Mytilene, on the Greek island of Lesbos. (AFP PHOTO POOL/FILIPPO MONTEFORTE)
April 17, 2016, 3:33 am
Pope lauded by refugees he helped resettle in Italy
Francis says decision to assist 12 Muslims who were stranded in Greek camp after fleeing war-torn Syria is ‘purely humanitarian’
By Nicole Winfield
Pope Francis greets migrants and refugees at the Moria refugee camp on April 16, 2016 near the port of Mytilene, on the Greek island of Lesbos. (AFP PHOTO POOL/FILIPPO MONTEFORTE)
April 16, 2016, 11:01 am
‘You are not alone,’ pope tells refugees in emotional Lesbos visit
At detention center on the Greek island, pontiff urges world to show ‘common humanity’; plans to take 3 families back to Rome
By AP and AFP
Piles of life jackets used by refugees and migrants to cross the Aegean Sea from the Turkish coast remain stacked on the Greek island of Lesbos, December 2, 2015. (AP/Santi)
January 7, 2016, 3:52 pm
Turkey seizes over 1,200 unsafe life jackets intended for refugees
Factory in Izmir has reportedly been using underage Syrian labor
By AFP
Turkish soldiers take photos of the body of a migrant washed up ashore in Izmir's Dikili district on January 5, 2016. (AFP/Dogan News Agency/Taylan Yildirim/Turkey OUT)
January 5, 2016, 4:17 pm
Turkey finds drowned bodies of 21 migrants, including children
Images reminiscent of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi show more Syrian casualties of deadly capsizes on the Aegean Sea
By Stuart Williams
The Russian navy destroyer Smetlivy. (CC BY-ASA Участник:Водник, Wikimedia)
December 13, 2015, 4:21 pm
Russian destroyer fires shots at Turkish fishing boat
Warship Smetlivy at anchor in the Aegean Sea uses small arms to warn off seiner that strayed too close
By AFP
A woman reacts after arriving at the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey on October 1, 2015. (AFP/Aris Messinis)
October 2, 2015, 9:51 am
In Lesbos cemetery, nameless dead with no one to claim them
Israeli, Palestinian activists attend funerals for unidentified migrant victims, including kids, who drowned in the Aegean Sea
By AFP
Syrian migrants walk past Greek and European flags as they head towards the town of Mithimna on Lesbos island, after arriving in an inflatable boat from Turkey on August 22, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / ACHILLEAS ZAVALLIS)
September 6, 2015, 9:32 am
Europe tracks army of 30,000 migrant smugglers
Officials say deadly business preys on sheer desperation of growing numbers of people fleeing war and poverty
By AFP
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