Sea Battle in the Ionian!

HOE battle ships won a decisive battle against Grecian naval forces over control of the Ionian Sea. In an official statement, Sultan Osman said "The European Federation's ships remained in the Ionian Sea, following the Federation's act of war and refusal to acquiesce to our reasonable request for withdrawal. A nominal change of ownership of the boats between a federation and its protectorate is not a satisfactory response to said request. The Holy Ottoman Empire is not at war with the state of Greece, and wishes it no ill will, for it had no hand in the events that transpired."

The provisional government of Greece has not yet made any declaration of war, nor any preparations for it.

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You've lost a point of navy, the point you gave to the Greek provisional government. The HOE now controls the seas East and South of Greece. You can tell they have at least 2 points of navy, and there were some air forces involved in the naval battle, but the Sultan is not showing his whole hand, and you cannot tell how many more points of navy he may have sitting in port, or deployed elsewhere.

The provisional governor/president/PM/whatever of Greece appeals to the federation to not escalate the situation, because in a full-blown war he knows that Greece would be the most devastated by the conflict and serve as the main battleground.