The "Blue Motherland", the largest exercise "in the history of the Turkish Republic" according to the headquarters of the Turkish armed forces, began at dawn on Wednesday. The start of the "rehearsal for war", as the Turkish media described it, was at 5:00 on the morning of February 27, with the exercise being completed in ten days on 8 March. The first images from the bases of Aksaz - opposite Rhodes and Gjoljuk, in the Marmara Sea:

The Medieval City of Rhodes, the Old Town of Corfu, the island of Delos, Samos’ Pythagoreion and Heraion, as well as Pafos in Cyprus, are among 47 UNESCO World Heritage sites in the Mediterranean currently facing the threat of rising sea levels and erosion, according to a study released on Tuesday, in the scientific journal Nature Communications.

The Greek islands of Crete, Rhodes and Kos were among the ten most popular last-minute tourism destinations for German travelers in summer 2018, TUI Germany recently said.