May 20, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics, Turkey-GR
An unprecedented violation of Greece’s national sovereignty by Turkish fighter jets on Friday: they reached 2.5 nautical miles off the port city of Alexandroupolis in north-eastern Greece. Angry reaction by the Greek Foreign Ministry that issued a statement condemning “the very clear escalation of Turkish provocations.” Foreign Ministry statement “We …
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April 27, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics, Turkey-GR
Turkish F-16 fighter jets recorded on Wednesday a record of 126 violations of Greek air space and 30 overflights of Greek islands some of them inhabited. Despite a demarche from Athens to Ankara earlier on Wednesday, the neighbors on the other side of the Aegean Sea ignored Greece’s diplomatic protest …
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April 4, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Turkish fighter jets not only violated Greek air space for one more time but they also interrupted the multinational military NATO exercise INIOHOS in the south Aegean Sea. During the planned exercise part where Air Force and the NATO SNMG2 Permanent Allied Naval Force would cooperate and while an air …
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February 7, 2022
FEATURED, Politics, Turkey-GR
Τurkey has apparently changed its tactic of violating Greece air space and now it increasingly uses drones and unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs to challenge the eastern borders of its neighboring country. On Sunday, February 6, the Greek military recorded a total of 60 violations of national air space and 2 …
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March 31, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Turkey-GR
Turkish fighter jets flew over Greeks islands thus violating Greek airspace, while on the ground Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias was holding a meeting with the Turkish ambassador in Athens before his meeting with Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu. According to a statement by the Greek General Staff, a pair of Turkish …
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July 7, 2020
Politics, Turkey-GR
Greek military authorities reported a total of 50 violations of the country’s national airspace by Turkish jets on Thursday. The violations were conducted by 13 aircraft in the northeastern, central and southeastern Aegean Sea. The 13 aircraft were identified as eight F-16s, two F-4 and one CN-235. On nine occasions, …
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February 18, 2020
Turkey-GR
Turkey “welcomed” the launch of Confidence Building Measures talks with Greece with air space violations and a provocative statement by the Foreign Minister who calls the “Muslim minority of Greece” as “Turkish.” The armed forces of Greece and Turkey began meeting in Athens on Monday in the framework of military …
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February 13, 2020
Turkey-GR
Turkish F-16 fighter jets conducted 53 violations of Greek airspace, 9 violations of Athens FIR and 14 overflights over Aegean islands on Thursday, just a few hours after the meeting of the defense ministers of the two countries on the sidelines of the NATO meeting in Brussels. The fighter jets …
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February 9, 2020
FEATURED, Turkey-GR
Turkey’s Defense Minister Hulusi Akar has said that Greece has stationed armed forces in 16 of 23 major eastern Aegean islands, violating a treaty that has called for their demilitarization. He also blamed “Greece’s actions” that make it difficult to find a common ground with Turkey. In an interview to …
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January 15, 2020
Turkey-GR
91 violations of Greek air space, 27 flights over Greek islands, 6 dog fights with Greek fighter jets. In its effort to confirm its claims in the Aegean Sea, Turkish aircraft broke an all time record on Tuesday, January 14, 2020. And for the first time after a long time, …
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October 30, 2019
Turkey-GR
With a pair of F-16 fighter jets, two electronic warfare aircraft and one unmanned aerial vehicle Turkey violated the Greek Airspace 18 times on Tuesday. The 18 FIR Athens violations occurred in the South-East Aegean Sea. In two cases Greek and Turkish jets were involved in “dog-fights.” The Turkish fighter …
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June 13, 2019
Turkey-GR
For third consecutive day Turkish aircraft continued a ‘barrage’ of Greek airspace violations and overflights over Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. On Thursday alone, Turkish pilots conducted 95 overflights and violations of the Athens FIR. The majority of violations were conducted by Turkish aircraft for electronic warfare, while also …
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August 29, 2018
Turkey-GR
Turkish fighter jets violated Greek national air space a total of 47 times on Tuesday and thus while the Hellenic Air Force was mourning for the death of pilot Major Nikolaos Vassiliou during the crash of a training aircraft. The violations took place over the northeast, central and southeast parts …
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May 24, 2018
Politics, Turkey-GR
Turkish fighter jest violated the Greek airspace 46 times in a single day, the Greek General Staff said in a statement yesterday afternoon. The FIR violations occurred in the North, Central and Southeast Aegean Sea on Wednesday. A total of 17 Turkish aircraft committed the Greek airspace violations. They were …
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March 22, 2017
Turkey-GR
Turkish fighter jets and aircraft conducted massive violations of the Greek FIR on Tuesday. Two pairs of F-16 and two CASA CN-235 aircraft conducted a total of 33 Greek airspace violations in the northeastern, central ans southeastern Aegean Sea in a single day. The Turkish F-16s were armed and violated …
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