Overview
- Senior military officials from the three countries signed the 2026 defence cooperation action plan in Cyprus last week, with the IDF also confirming parallel bilateral plans.
- Greece says the agreement will broaden joint air and naval exercises in 2026 and include Israeli know-how transfers to address both asymmetrical and symmetrical threats.
- A senior Greek official said drills would intensify after a Gaza ceasefire, and Greece plans to join Israel’s Noble Dina naval exercise in the eastern Mediterranean in the coming months.
- The IDF said the framework covers joint training, working groups and strategic military dialogue, while reports of a roughly 2,500-person crisis-response force remain unconfirmed.
- Political reactions followed, including criticism from the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and from Cyprus’s AKEL party, with a Mitsotakis–Erdogan meeting expected in early 2026.