The Greek Islands that the Turks harass have no Greek military presence because of the Treaty Of Lausanne.
I have been on one of these islands when the Turkish airforce beat it up, which residents tell me is a regular occurrence.
Ikaria has the topography of an upturned boat rising out of the water, lying East/West in the middle of the Aegean and rising to more than 3,000 feet.
The two F16s came over from West to East over the land along the North side of the island, well below the level of the peaks, maybe 100ft above the ground. They were travelling very rapidly and were very loud indeed. They repeated this a few minutes later. The local attitude is that the Turks are just children playing.
The big danger is that Ikaria has a civilian airport, with the runway running North South, near its Eastern tip. The runway is in an partly artificially created valley (there is very little flat land on the island) so aircraft taking off suddenly pop up out of it, at 90 degrees to the path of the F16s. The Turkish F16s obviously aren't under Greek ATC and they cannot see what is on the runway until the very last second. If a civil aircraft was taking off at the same time that an F16 was making a low level pass then there would be zero time to take avoiding action. The only redeeming fact is that the runway only sees a small number of movements each day.
The photo is of Ikaria from the East.
