In an interview with Daily Sabah, naval architect and marine engineer Semih Zorlu from Istanbul-based SEFT ship design & engineering said that among the other three regional countries with strong navies, namely Egypt, Greece and Israel, in the eastern Mediterranean where Turkey has been conducting drilling activities with two seismic vessels under the scope of its territorial rights, Turkey has the strongest navy, though there are several different aspects of such a comparison.

The Greek Defense Ministry is closely watching and planning concerning the incursion of the Turkish research vessel Oruc Reis, since its morning , carrying out an intrusion into the Greek EEZ of the Eastern Mediterranean. At this time the Hellenic Navy Fleet is moving additional assets, as is the Turkish Navy,

The first phase of the program of highlighting historic Hellenic Navy shipwrecks, through diving activities, concerning the investigation and recording of the present situation of the historic shipwrecks of HN Warships was successfully completed.