Greek intelligence

The recent arrests of Pakistani nationals with intentions of attacking Israeli targets on Greek soil has brought to the fore a multifaceted spy game.

Mohammed Amar Ampara, arrested on June 26 with a charge of "working for Greek intelligence service EYP," has confessed all his espionage activities inside Türkiye in his testimony, Turkish private national broadcaster CNN Türk has alleged.

According to the TV station, the Greek spy gave all information of his three contacts in the EYP to Turkish officers.

Türkiye's national intelligence organisation caught a Greek citizen on suspicion of espionage activities on behalf of Athens, Demirören News Agency reported on June 25. 

Mohamed Amar Ampara, who was captured in Türkiye, was being interrogated by the spy agency, the agency reported.

The Port Authority on the southeastern Aegean island of Symi was on Wednesday investigating claims by a Turkish man found stranded on a rocky islet nearby.

The 27-year-old Turkish national was rescued by a Port Authority patrol boat with the help of a local fisherman and claims to be a lawyer with all the proper travel documents allowing him to enter Greece and the European Union.

Greek authorities are on alert after weapons and ammunition were found at a Mosque in the city of Xanthi in the eastern Macedonia and Thrace regions in the north of Greece. According to reports by newspaper “Kathimerini”, Greek intelligence officers detected the weapons after receiving tips and proceeded to investigate a Mosque in the village of Iliopetra of the Topiros municipality.

According to intelligence reports, the Turkish government is secretly planning to send 3,000 refugees to Greece every day.
Greek officials have reported an unusual concentration of dinghies and motorboats along the Turkish coast as the refugee deal that was agreed between Turkey and the European Union begins to sour.

Turkey has put to trial one of the suspects in the 1996 assasination of Özdemir Sabanc? some 20 years after the top industrialist's killing, which remains as one of the country's most notorious assassinations. 

International media and European partners believe that the phone-tapping revealed by wikileaks was carried out by Greek intelligence service, posing more difficulties in the negotiation talks for the program review.

The disagreement between IMF and EU was revealed by Wikileaks bringing to light a phone conversation between top two IMF officials, Poul Thomsen and Delia Velculescu, who are reportedly saying that they might push Greece to the brink of a credit event so as Greece would accept the strict measures it proposed.

Giannis Panousis referred implicitly to Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos, members of SYRIZA and media supporting the government while talking to Parliament’s Institutions and Transparency Committee claiming that he was victimized.