Greece–Turkey relations

A pair of Turkish F-4 aircraft flew over the islands of Makronisi and Anthropofagous (Man-eaters), located south of the island complex of Fournous in the eastern Aegean Sea, encroaching the Athens FIR on Wednesday. The aircraft flew at an altitude of 10,000 feet.

Turkey respects Greece's decision not to extradite eight soldiers who fled to Greece after last July's attempted coup, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Monday.

Greek F-16 fighter jets engaged in dog fights with a pair of Turkish jets over the Aegean Sea, as the Hellenic Air Force General Staff recorded a new wave of violations of Greek airspace over the Aegean Sea by the Turkish Air Force. Over 30 violations were recorded by two Turkish F-16 jets and a pair of CN-235 reconnaissance aircraft.

Greek and Turkish fighter jets engaged in dog fights over the Aegean, as two Turkish F-16 fighter jets and a helicopter violated Greek airspace five times over the south and north eastern Aegean. Two of the Turkish jets were armed. Two infringements of the Athens FIR were also recorded.

12 Turkish jets violated Greek national air space 24 times Thursday in the northeastern Aegean, authorities said.

There was also one mock dog fight between Greek and Turkish aircraft.

The Turkish jets - consisting of 10 armed F-16s flying in four formations, one CN-235 plane and a helicopter - also entered the Athens Flight Information Region (FIR) nine times.

Turkey's first woman gendarmerie commander, who was previously suspended from her post because of a conspiracy plotted by followers of the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, was killed in a helicopter crash in the Şenoba area of the southeastern province of Şırnak late on May 31. 

“The Patriarchate is our cradle and the Turkish leadership must realise that the presence of the Patriarchate in Constantinople is one of Turkey’s most powerful ties with the EU and the West”, Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said during his meeting with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Patriarchate, Monday.

Turkey is taking its provocations against Greece to the next level, as newspaper Yeni Safak published a letter by Greek Ambassador to Turkey, Kyriakos Loukakis claiming that Turkey has violated the national sovereignty of Greece. In the letter Mr.

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Turkey's leading mobile phone operator Turkcell has renovated the technological infrastructure of a Greek high school on Turkey's northwestern island of Gökçeada and held an opening ceremony for it on May 17.