Fighter jets from Turkey repeatedly harass helicopter carrying Greek Prime Minister and Armed Forces Chief

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Ever since the Greek genocide of the 1910s and 1920s and the defeat of the Ottoman Islamic empire, the Turks have continued to taunt and menace Greece. Erdogan has openly declared that he wants to win back all the lands formerly ruled by the Ottoman empire. That would include Greece. But Erdogan’s words are nothing new: Turkey has been conducting a low-grade war against Greece for decades. For years, Turkey has claimed Greek islands in the Aegean and menaced Greek planes and ships. Successive Turkish governments have made it clear that they do not really take seriously Greece’s independence, and want to erode and ultimately destroy the independent Greek state.

The Turkish military routinely harasses Greek planes and ships. Now they have even dared to target a plane carrying Greece’s Prime Minister and the Chief of its Armed Forces. Clearly, Erdogan is itching for a war with Greece — or more precisely, a jihad.

“Turkish fighter jets harass Tsipras’s helicopter,” Ekathimerini, April 17, 2018:

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Two Turkish fighter aircraft reportedly harassed the Chinook helicopter carrying Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the Greek Armed Forces Chief Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis as they were flying from the islet of Ro to Rhodes on Tuesday afternoon.

The Turkish fighter jets, flying at an altitude of 10,000 feet, asked the Greek helicopter pilot, which at that moment was at 1,500 feet, to provide flight details, according to defense sources.

The pilot immediately informed the prime minister and the HNDGS Chief and alerted the Greek air force which dispatched two fighter jets, which approached the area at 20,000 feet. The Turkish aircraft retreated.

Speaking earlier from the southeastern Aegean island of Kastellorizo earlier in the day, Tsipras said Greece will defend its principles “in any way it can… and will not cede an inch of territory,” in an apparent dig at recent provocations from Turkey….

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Darwin Toivo
Darwin Toivo
5 years ago

It is time for convoys to be organized and accompanied by the Greek Navy and/or Air Force on an ongoing basis with no end date announced. All Greek shipping within an agreed upon proximity by Greek security experts to Turkey would need to organize a convoy. As for small Greek planes or helicopters the same can be done but on smaller scale with accompanying Greek Air Force escort.

In addition, the Greek government could consider beefing up their Coast Guard with regular patrols of a minimum of 3 ships per patrol. Additional measures can be considered as needed.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

Greece, Armenia and Israel should form a military alliance to oppose the muslum imperialists of the both the Mid-East and the near Mid-East because no one in the dying atheist West is going to be doing anything for any of them (see Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus in the 1970’s)

Mike Kevins
Mike Kevins
5 years ago

All it will take is one fighter jockey with an itchy trigger finger to really set things ablaze.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

Although they are technically “allies” within NATO, the Greeks and Turks still bitterly resent each other.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

And technically Turkey is an ‘ally’ of the free world!

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

While sadly Turkey today is anything but “free”.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

It never was. It was never free for the Christians and Jews who lived there.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

Why weren’t fighter jets escorting the helicopter? I understand they would have to be flying at a 45&#8736 just to keep up with the helicopter and sure might look funny.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

I heard that when Me-109’s tried to intercept the only British naval torpedo bomber, a biplane, they did so w/flaps full down and landing gear extended.

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