Greece Buys Missiles from Israel Against Türkiye
In this period when Türkiye is prioritizing domestic investments in the defense industry, Greece is also focusing on armament. Greece has announced a new armament program that it will spend 25 billion Euros on over 12 years. Air defense and air attack systems will be the priority within the scope of this program. Greece will make the largest purchases for its new program from the US and Israel. A significant portion of the 5 different types of missile systems called “Achilles’ Shield”, planned to be deployed near the Aegean islands and the Turkish-Greek land border, are planned to be purchased from Israel. In his speech in parliament on Wednesday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stated that replacing the Patriot missiles purchased from the US with new ones would take at least 4-5 years and that Europe’s means were limited, and said, “Israel, with whom we have a strategic alliance, can offer us these means in a shorter period of time.” Mitsotakis, who went to Jerusalem over the...