🔴 Video shows a large group of illegal immigrants inside Greece, in the region of the Rhodopes Mountains
>https://archive.is/ryKym

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🟢 Recently, most illegal crossings of the Greek border are not by sea as in 2015, instead they happen by land, most recorded cases are at the Greek-Turkish border, while more recently several large groups have been spotted crossing the borders through mountainous areas at the Greek-Bulgarian border since patrolling some of these regions with a large force is very hard and there is also less border security such as cameras, walls, barbed wires and other obstacles such as at the Turkish border

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Byzantine panel with a Griffin, 1250–1300

This image of a griffin with its head turned and its wing flexed is a fine example of monumental stone carving of the Late Byzantine era. The panel worked in low relief resembles an elaborate Byzantine silk in its arrangement of the creature within a roundel. Greek crosses at the midpoint of the border on all four sides. Christians of this era still considered the mythical griffins to be guardian figures, often of the dead, & symbols of power & authority, thanks in part to their legendary role in the life of Alexander the Great.

Possibly, the panel was part of a tomb similar to those known from northern Greece that were carved in a style influential in Serbia & the Balkans. On tombs griffins may have meant both to protect the people buried within & to symbolize their royal lineage. The fleurs-de-lis on the griffin's shoulder & haunch typify the era's complex cultural interplay as similar motifs are found in contemporary Islamic & Crusader depictions of animals.

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🔴 After Turkey's recent move to reopen Farmagusta, Cyprus responded with a briefing of the UN Security Council
>https://archive.is/bfFb8
>https://archive.is/seYrA

🔸 The Cypriot FM stated that the actions of Turkey both in the area of Famagusta and on the sea of the Republic of Cyprus within the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Cyprus, aim, among other things, to promote another form of solution to the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, "something which neither we nor the international community can accept or even discuss"

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🔴 Egyptian sources reported that Turkey is negotiating the sales of weapons to Morocco and Ethiopia, something that might increase the tension between Turkey and Egypt, who also requested that the U.S and European countries try to freeze such Turkish deals
>https://archive.is/ZtEZ9

🔸 Two sources in the Egyptian security forces said that Cairo - which is in conflict with Addis Ababa - has asked the US and some European countries to help freeze any agreement

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🔴 Merkel and Erdogan discussed Turkey's EU accession process, immigration and Turkey's role on NATO
>https://archive.is/rVt7T

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🔴 Video shows that the Turkish Police Higher Vocational School has been transformed into the Gray Wolves

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🔴 Video from downtown Athens shows once again public squares are full of illegal immigrants who end up living there
>https://archive.is/wChT5

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🔴 The signing of the Military agreement between Greece and the U.S for the construction of American bases in Greek islands in the Eastern Aegean could put an end to Turkey's threats
>https://archive.md/3b2bp

🔸 In the preamble to the five-year Defense Agreement, Athens and Washington reaffirm their firm determination "to safeguard and mutually protect the security, sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of their countries against actions that threaten the peace, attack or threat of attack"

🔸 The US Secretary of State in a letter to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stressed that the US strongly believes in "respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as sovereign rights and jurisdiction under international law of the sea"

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🟢 Although it is unlikely that the U.S would directly intervene in favor of Greece and against Turkey just like in September 1922, this signals to Turkey that they are getting further isolated and their geographical importance is being reduced

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🔴 Turkish retired admiral Cihat Yayci says the U.S and Greece are conspiring against Turkey, says it is a case for war (casus belli) after U.S Greece military deal
>https://archive.md/8pleS

🔸 "I warn you! It is no coincidence that the Greek Foreign Minister referred to the resolution of the Grand Turkish National Assembly in 1995", he stressed, noting that for the first time in an official American text, it is stated that: "Turkey is a threat"

🔸 The theoretician of the Turkish "Blue Homeland" doctrine, retired Admiral Cihat Yayci, draws Turkey's attention to the possibility that Greece will proceed with a unilateral increase of its territorial waters to 12 nautical miles which is legally allowed by International Law and the international standard

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🔴 Due to Turkish provocations in Farmagusta, the EU has requested EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell
>https://archive.md/uulgO

🔸 In particular, according to diplomatic sources in the light of the unacceptable behavior by Turkey in the besieged city of Famagusta in Cyprus, Josep Borrell and the European Commission were asked, without any objections, to draw up a list of proposed measures against Turkey. He made it clear that the situation was particularly worrying, as there had been no reversal of Turkey's unacceptable actions. He added that Turkey's behavior creates tension in Cyprus and undermines the resumption of negotiations for the settlement of the Turkish occupation of Cyprus

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🔴 The leaders of Greece, Egypt and Cyprus have signed a joint declaration that covered several topics including the Turkish occupation of Cyprus
>https://archive.md/JokuS

🔸 "We discussed the Cyprus issue and reaffirmed our strong support for a just, comprehensive and sustainable settlement in accordance with the relevant UN Security Council resolutions calling for a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation with a single sovereignty, a single international personality and a single national identity. with the acquis, values and principles of the EU"

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Greek terracotta hydria (water jar), early 4th century BC.

Herakles with women, satyr, and Pan in the garden of the Hesperides.

In this scene, the garden of the Hesperides seems to have become a sanctuary of Dionysos, for the guardian women may be maenads, and a satyr and Pan stand by.

🔴 The European Court of Human Rights criticized a Turkish law that punishes anyone who insults the "image" of the head of state, ruling that "providing increased protection with a special law against the insult is not in line with the European Convention of human rights"
>https://archive.md/YijIW

🔸 The Strasbourg-based ECtHR was approached by a Turk, now in his 30s, who was sentenced in 2017 to 11 months and 20 days in prison with suspension for posting two cartoons depicting Erdogan on Facebook a few years earlier. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and one of them showed him in women's clothes kissing Barack Obama , then President of the United States

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🟢 The ECHR's decision has no real effect, but could be used to affect Turkey's relations with the EU, more specifically their "accession process", which has been stuck at 3% for almost two decades

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