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    Aegean tension as Turkish warplanes violate Greek airspace

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    1. eloyend on

      I’ll repeat myself from one of older posts – locally bordering countries should take leading roles shaping EU international policy with their neighbors.

      Turkey wants to live good with EU? Well, better to start cooperate with Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria etc.

      Making politics over heads leads to situations like these we have. Be it with russia or Turkey.

    2. Kejo2023 on

      All of this is happening after our Greek neighbours became besties with the Netanyahu regime in an era where Turkey said repeatedly that it has no interest in a military conflict. Tell me Netanyahu made promises without telling me Netanyahu made promises. 

    5. tree_boom on

      As always with stories like this, the important context is that Greece says it’s national airspace extends to [10 nautical miles](https://geetha.mil.gr/en/news-section/violations/explanations-of-terms/) even though it’s territorial waters only extend to 6 nautical miles. It’s not just the Turks that do not recognise that extra 4 nautical miles as being Greek airspace – literally nobody does. Most of the violations of “Greek airspace” that are complained about occur in that zone – the Turks deliberately fly there to ensure that there’s no claim of an established precedence of acceptance of the Greek claim in the same way most of us exercise freedom of navigation transits through waters claimed by China (no implications of moral equivalence between the nations intended).

      That’s not to say they there aren’t Turkish overflights of internationally recognised Greek territory, but it’s hard to know how many because Greece naturally refuses to differentiate between the two categories (because as far as they’re concerned there aren’t two categories at all).

      The Greco-Turkish dispute in the Aegean is a real canker within NATO. It always surprises me that there aren’t more strenuous efforts to meditate the problem.

    6. Distinct_Cup_1598 on

      And the EU will do…..? Exactly. Nothing. Like it always did. And Turkey knows that

    8. InzMrooz on

      I have a question to a Turk or a Greek here. What’s thiss all about?

      Is it just a “neighbourgh dislike, that is going for centuries”? Sth like between Poland and Germany?

    10. Hampden-in-the-sun on

      Greece and Cyprus cosying up to genocidal Israel.
      Maybe Turkey doesn’t like that?

    11. chezdistester on

      One of the most fascinating diplomatic quandries is how Greece and Turkey are both members of the same defensive alliance.

    15. starfleethastanks on

      No. No. We’ve had enough historic airplanes destroyed in Iran. Please don’t put the last two active F-4 units against each other.