A formation of four Turkish fighter jets violated Greek air space in the northeastern Aegean Thursday, the Greek Defense Ministry said, adding that two of the aircraft were armed.
“Ankara’s provocative actions are meant to tell
the world that Turkey does not recognize the existing air and sea
borders in the Eastern Mediterranean,”Greece’s former deputy military
chief of staff Frangoulis Frangos told the Moscow-based newspaper
Rossiiskaya Gazeta.
Turkey refuses to recognize a 10-mile airspace zone around Greek
islands in the Aegean Sea, which led to at least 1,300 airspace
violations in 2015, 31 of which took place over Greek territory.Turkey has a long history of straying into Greek airspace, with incidents rising over the past several years to 2,224 in 2014.
Intruding flights over Greek territory more than doubled in 2015, compared to the previous year.
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