Extract from
an article in The Times:-
The Greek military was on heightened alert today after Turkish fighter jets invaded the country’s national airspace, buzzing over a number of islands, engaging in an aerial show of strength over the Aegean Sea.
The war games increased fears of a confrontation between the two countries as relations between Ankara, Athens and other European capitals deteriorated ahead of a referendum on April 16 that could boost the powers of President Erdogan, the Turkish leader.
Officials at the Ministry of Defence in Athens said sorties of F-4 and F-16 Turkish warplanes were intercepted by Greek fighter jets after they flew into national airspace on 37 separate occasions in the past three days. At least two of the Turkish jets were armed yesterday while two others flew at low altitudes over small islets north of Agathonisi in the southeast of the Aegean Sea, alarming their 100 inhabitants.
Should it come to fisticuffs, one wonders how NATO would react to both sides triggering an Article 5 call...
