EEZ and CEI’s security: The case of Israel and the “Emerald Affair” (updated)

The recent Israel’s Environmental Protection Ministry accusation that the tanker "Emerald" caused a huge oil spill that severely...

S-400: President Erdogan’s “Achilles Heel”? (updated)

Like a lorry in downslide without brakes, Turkey continued on its path of defiance to the West with...

The Ottoman Empire Strikes Back?

Turkey’s long-term strategy in destabilizing Libya, the Middle East, and the Eastern Mediterranean Turkey...

Will Turkey dare to dissolve NATO’s Southern Flank?

The Greece-Egypt Agreement took by surprise and infuriated Ankara, forcing it to react by raising tensions, endangering the coherence...

Greece and U.S.A. are getting closer due to Turkey’s anti-West posture

The recent meetings of Greece's HDGS and Foreign Minister with their U.S. counterparts in Washington, set the basis for the upgrade...

Critical Energy Infrastructures under attack… (updated)

The recent attacks on the "Arab Pipeline", connecting Egypt, Israel and Jordan, as well as ARAMCO's facility in Jeddah,...

Drums of war are beating more loudly in Eastern Aegean

Turkey’s insecurity and provocative actions may prove the fuse for a major conflagration. How the rest stakeholders eye these...

How hard CAATSA sanctions will hit Turkey and its defense industry? (updated)

Although already well understood by Moscow’s elite, tens of millions of Turkish citizens learned on December 14th what...

“Energy War” in the Eastern Mediterranean. Is this the new “Big Game”?

  The Eastern Mediterranean is becoming one of the top 21st Century “Big Games”, that is about the new energy sources for...

Turkish “Blue Motherland – Mavi Vatan” exercise raises tension in Aegean and S.E. Mediterranean

Ships, Lies and Hybrid War Tassos Tsiplakos - South East Med Energy & Defense Analyst