Turkey flexes naval power across four seas; Greece cries provocation
Turkey has launched one of its largest-ever naval exercises — thousands of troops and live missile fire across the Black Sea, Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean. Ankara calls it routine readiness; Athens sees provocation in contested waters.
The summary above is a neutral framing. Below, each side reports the same story in its own words — judge for yourself.
Ankara presents the drills as routine readiness and a show of a rising, self-sufficient defence industry — exercising sovereignty in its own seas and test-firing new home-made missiles and systems.
Athens and Greek media see Turkey's near-constant drills and live-fire zones close to Greek islands as deliberate provocation that revives disputes over maritime boundaries and the islands' demilitarised status.
