My best guess is some type of leafy cardoon. Cardoon has been known in Greece and nearby countries for hundreds of years as a cooked green and a salad green. The mature plants I've seen pics of have leaves that are much more finely dissected than the plants in your pics. But the leaves of young plants are hardly dissected at all, so if your plants are young ones, maybe cardoon is what you have.
Hm -- found another source that says the cardoon leaves are spiny. Guess that's not it.
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