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On Saturday, the US State Department responded to the Turkish violation of Greek airspace, which involved Turkish jets flying dangerously close to the Greek city of Alexandroupoli. In a statement, Ned Pierce, a State Department spokesperson, stated that: "We encourage all...

While Turkey escalates tensions in the Aegean with repeated issuings of illegal NAVTEXes, the amount of Turkish warplane overflights over Greece in 2020 outnumber those that have been made in the past decade. The number of overflights of Turkish fighter...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has once again sided with Turkey when CNN journalist Hala Gorani asked him three times about Turkey violating Greek airspace and he refused all three times to answer the question claiming that Ankara is under...

Greek military authorities recently announced that Turkish jets had committed a total of 50 new violations in the country's national airspace just on one day, Thursday, July 2. The violations were reported to have occurred within the northeastern, central and...

Greece is monitoring a huge Turkish air and naval exercise which is currently taking place south of Crete and southeast of Rhodes, defense sources in Athens said on Thursday, as Turkish jets again violated Greek airspace over the Aegean. The...

Greece's Armed Forces marked the anniversary of the War of Independence on Wednesday with a ceremony at the border with Turkey at Evros. Army units raised the Greek flag near the crossing point to Turkey in the village of Kastanies. https://twitter.com/NIKSOTIROPOYLOS/status/1242750974973927426 Kastanies...

The repeated Turkish provocations Greece has had to face recently seem to have no end, since on Wednesday afternoon, two Turkish F-16 fighter jets violated Greek airspace in northern Evros. It is believed that this is the first time Turkish fighter...

Turkey continued provoking Greece on Tuesday as its fighter jets conducted a total of five unauthorized flights over the eastern Aegean. According to Greek authorities, the first violation of Greek airspace came at 9:47 AM and involved a pair of...

There was no let-up in the most recent round of Turkish provocations, which ratcheted up tensions yet again by sending fighter jets into Greek airspace on Christmas Day, keeping Greek pilots busy intercepting them. According to the Greek Ministry of...

The Greek General Staff announced on Tuesday that the number of incidents of Turkish aircraft violating the country's airspace over the Aegean in the first ten months of 2019 has reached 3,954. According to the data released, this constitutes the...

Ambassador Andreas Mavroyiannis, Cyprus’ Permanent Representative to the United Nations, has strongly protested ''the continuing violations of the national airspace and territorial waters of Cyprus by Turkey, as well as the infringements by the latter of international air traffic...

A technical agreement for the patrolling of North Macedonian airspace by Greek fighter jets was signed on Monday in Thessaloniki. The agreement was signed by the General Christos Christodoulou, Chief of the Hellenic National Defense General Staff, and Lieutenant General...

Turkish aircraft violated Greece's airspace thirty times on Friday, September 27, Greek Defense sources told media. Two F-16 and two CN235-type aircraft entered Greek airspace in various locations across the Eastern Aegean Sea, violating the country's airspace in the northern,...

According to Greek military authorities, a total of six Turkish fighter jets violated Greek air space over the Eastern Aegean Sea on Monday at noontime. At 12:03 PM local time on Monday, a pair of Turkish F-16 fighter jets flew...

In a major escalation of provocations, Turkish jets violated Greek national airspace a total of 99 separate times on Tuesday, according to the Hellenic National Defense General Staff (GEETHA). Forty-six of those violations were conducted by fighter jets and the...