"BREAKING: Trump shut downs U.S. base in Alexandroupoli, Greece," says a February 24, 2025 X post with thousands of interactions.
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Screenshot from X taken February 25, 2025
The same claim has circulated elsewhere on X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, TikTok, YouTube, Gettr and news websites -- including in Greek, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. Several Moscow-aligned organizations including state-run news services RIA Novosti and Russia Today also amplified the claim.
Most of the posts attribute the claim to the conservative, Athens-based newspaper Dimokratia, which published a headline article on February 23 claiming Trump was closing the base at the behest of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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