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#NEWS | 🇹🇷 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 — Türkiye proposed a deal to Russia and Ukraine to stop attacks on civilian ships in the Black Sea. Ankara shared a draft memorandum with both sides to resolve the strikes. Source: AFP

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—🇺🇸/🇹🇷 US Representative Nicole Malliotakis Office:
Turkey is a NATO ally on paper but we are concerned about Turkey’s close relationship with Russia and Iran, about its harboring of Hamas leadership, about Erdogan’s calls for the destruction of Israel and illegal occupation of Cyprus military flights above Greek islands.

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—🇷🇸🇧🇦🤝🇮🇱🇮🇱 NEW: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu met Bosnian Serb politician Milorad Dodik in Jerusalem, with Dodik saying talks focused on finalizing economic and cultural cooperation agreements and transferring new technologies, including in agriculture.

➡️ Images circulated from the meeting showed the Republika Srpska entity flag, while Bosnia and Herzegovina’s state flag was not visible.

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#NEWS | 🇮🇱 🇬🇷 — Israel and Greece conducted joint naval exercises in the Mediterranean Sea.

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🇷🇺🇷🇸 Serbia awarded medals to crew of the Russian firefighter aircraft which helped the country to deal with wildfires this summer.
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—Guys I've been so busy, I'll try to bring you fresh Balkan updates tonight or tomorrow morning at most. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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—🪖🇹🇷🤝🇷🇴 NEW: Türkiye and Romania are conducting joint military activities on land, in the air and at sea on an almost constant basis, both under NATO and bilaterally, Turkish Ambassador to Bucharest Özgür Kıvanç Altan said.

➡️ Turkish forces are currently participating in two exercises in Romania: Burebista 26 and Eastern Shield 2026.

➡️ The latter, running from September 16 to October 2, focuses on air and drone defence, with Turkish personnel and national air-defence systems deployed at Capu Midia near Constanța.

🔗 Turkish Ambassador to Romania on X

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—❗️🇲🇰/🇬🇷 Balkan Spectator has detected information regarding calls for an armed uprising in Greece coming from Macedonian circles

➡️ Whether these actors are from North Macedonia or are ethnic Macedonians in Greece is not known.

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—🇲🇰/🇬🇷 WATCH: A video from a July 19 festival in Meliti, northern Greece, showed participants performing Aleksandar Car Makedonski, a modern Macedonian nationalist song whose lyrics include the line “Go away, Greeks, enough with the lies.”

➡️ On September 8, two Greek citizens from Demetrios Makedon Association submitted the video to the Florina prosecutor, asking authorities to examine whether any offence had been committed.

➡️ The Panhellenic Federation of Macedonian Cultural Associations also called for an official investigation and translation of the lyrics.

➡️ No court ruling has established that singing the song itself constituted a crime.

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—🇲🇰/🇬🇷 WATCH: A video from a July 19 festival in Meliti, northern Greece, showed participants performing Aleksandar Car Makedonski, a modern Macedonian nationalist song whose lyrics include the line “Go away, Greeks, enough with the lies.” ➡️ On September…
—❗️🇲🇰/🇬🇷 Egejski Glas – Егејски Глас published a serious statement describing Greek authorities as a “fascist occupation force” and saying that Macedonians could be left with “no choice” but to “self-organise and begin to arm ourselves” to defend what it called their “enslaved brothers in Aegean Macedonia.”

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—❗️🇲🇰/🇬🇷 Egejski Glas – Егејски Глас published a serious statement describing Greek authorities as a “fascist occupation force” and saying that Macedonians could be left with “no choice” but to “self-organise and begin to arm ourselves” to defend what it called…
—🇲🇰/🇽🇰 NOTE: The post explicitly cited the UÇK/KLA and North Macedonia’s ONA/NLA as precedents.

⚠️ There is currently no public evidence of an armed organisation, recruitment, weapons acquisition or preparations for an uprising connected to the page.

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—❗️🇲🇰/🇬🇷 Egejski Glas – Егејски Глас published a serious statement describing Greek authorities as a “fascist occupation force” and saying that Macedonians could be left with “no choice” but to “self-organise and begin to arm ourselves” to defend what it called…
—🇲🇰 The group behind the armed rhetoric remains unidentified

➡️ Egejski Glas, meaning “Aegean Voice,” is a Macedonian nationalist Facebook page that regularly promotes the concept of “Aegean Macedonia” for the Greek region of Macedonia and uses Slavic Macedonian place names such as Lerin for Florina.

➡️ Balkan Spectator has found no reliable public evidence that Egejski Glas is a registered newspaper, political party, NGO or cultural association.

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—❗️🇲🇰/🇬🇷 Egejski Glas – Егејски Глас published a serious statement describing Greek authorities as a “fascist occupation force” and saying that Macedonians could be left with “no choice” but to “self-organise and begin to arm ourselves” to defend what it called…
—❗️🇬🇷/🇲🇰 Greek MP Aspasia Kouroupaki, from the NIKI party, submitted a parliamentary question addressed to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Citizen Protection to establish:

- the authenticity and origin of the Egejski Glas account,
- identify those behind it,
- determine whether its calls for arming reflect any real organised activity,
- and clarify whether cooperation has been sought from North Macedonian authorities.

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—❗️🇬🇷/🇲🇰 Greek MP Aspasia Kouroupaki, from the NIKI party, submitted a parliamentary question addressed to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Citizen Protection to establish: - the authenticity and origin of the Egejski Glas account, - identify those behind…
—🇬🇷/🇲🇰 NOTE: The 2018 Prespa Agreement obliges Greece and North Macedonia to discourage private actors from inciting violence, hostility, irredentism or revisionism against the other country.

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