Posted on 04/15/2018 6:52:04 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
Greek officials announced on Thursday that a Hellenic Air Force Mirage 2000-5 fighter jet crashed in the Aegean Sea, near the island of Skyros. The pilot, identified by the HAF as 33-year-old Capt. Giorgos Baltadoros, was returning from an aerial policing mission where he intercepted two Turkish Air Force F-16s.
"The mission had finished and it had been on its way back with another Greek plane," a Greek official told the New York Times. Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said that Baltadoros was a "hero who fell defending national sovereignty and territorial integrity."
It is not known exactly what caused the Greek fighter jet to crash, but AFP reported that "the pilot may have blacked out during a combat exercise on the return home." Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu quoted Turkish officials saying that there were no Turkish forces in the area.
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Cyprus is a secret?
Turkey is not our friend. Not since the Generals were given the boot.
Eonia imnimi....Memory Eternal to the Pilot.
“Turkey is not our friend. Not since the Generals were given the boot.”
I agree. I will side with Greece on this one.
No, they are our ally, that's even better.
NATO will do absolutely nothing.
Bring back Constantinople. I know, it’s unrealistic but we can dream.
No, NATO won’t.
I have often opined that Greece and Armenia should have a common border.
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks
You can’t leave it like that, here it is the original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcze7EGorOk
“I have often opined that Greece and Armenia should have a common border.”
The Greeks and Armenians did not get along too well the last time they shared a boarder. Hiking the highlands would be an experience.
Which period are you referring to specifically?
Greece and Turkey are both in NATO. Perhaps NATO should be disbanded. It's been pushing into the Mideast, Eastern Europe and Northern Africa for quite some time. Now, you've got an aggressor member (Turkey) fighting a vulnerable one.
Both NATO and the EU have not been kind to Greece. Maybe Greece needs new friends.
It would be nice to imagine a return of Ionia to Greece and the re-establishment of Christianity in the Hagia Sophia, but Greece has been wallowing in decadence since the fall of Athens in 404 B.C. and can't be trusted.
Among the ruins of the Parthenon, my Greek guide decried the plundering of Greek antiquities by the Western Nations (e.g. the Elgin Marbles). She wasn't pleased when I remarked that I wish they had gotten the Victory of Samothrace before her head and arms got knocked off and the Venus de Milo before she lost her arms.
Thought you would find this interesting.
Next year in Constantinople
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