Posted on 01/30/2015 11:38:21 AM PST by tcrlaf
Greece's new nationalist defense minister prompted Greece's perennial rival Turkey to scramble jets on Friday, just days after he took office, by flying over uninhabited islets off the Turkish coast that nearly triggered a war in 1996.
Turkish fighter jets entered Greek airspace and were intercepted by Greek jets as Defence Minister Panos Kammenos and military chiefs flew by helicopter to the islet of Imia to drop wreaths in memory of three Greek officers killed nearby in a helicopter crash 19 years ago, the Greek Defence Ministry said.
Kammenos heads the small, right-wing, Eurosceptical Independent Greeks party, and the episode underlines the risk that its unlikely coalition with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's leftwing Syriza party, winner of last week's election, will come under strain on issues not related to their shared desire to end Greece's austerity program.
Imia, known in Turkish as Kardak, lies just seven km (four miles) off the Turkish coast. Greece and Turkey, both members of NATO, have long disputed its sovereignty and, in 1996, came close to war over the islets.
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Turkish jets entered Greek airspace, but it was the Greek minister's fault???
I think you are going to start seeing a LOT of anti-Greek propaganda in the next few weeks.
Turkey needs to be kicked out of NATO.
How do you enforce “Article 5” of NATO when two NATO countries go at it?
You don’t.
“Turkish fighter jets entered Greek airspace and were intercepted by Greek jets as Defence Minister Panos Kammenos and military chiefs flew by helicopter to the islet of Imia to drop wreaths in memory of three Greek officers killed nearby in a helicopter crash 19 years ago”
That sound like something worth starting a war and killing a lot of people over. Damned idiots. I stand by my earlier position that most small nations have no need for an air force beyond some transport planes and some coastal patrol and SAR aircraft. They cannot prevail against a true air force, and their wars are all 100% retarded.
Sell popcorn to the show...
I think both of them need to go. Too unstable.
Greece was only in to keep the commies from taking over the place.
Oops.
And depopulated
You simply don’t acknowledge they are at war, at all, like during the Cyprus war.
They’re broke and took a jet joyride costing money!
Couldn't take a boat?
You you going to cheer for? The Greek commies or the Turkish Islamic militants?
A lot of other reasons Turkey needs to be kicked out, mainly for imposing a new Caliphate.
I don’t want to see NATO dragged into a war on Turkey’s behalf.
Listening to this report’s identification of the parties in the partnership of the current Greek parliamentary majority - part far left and part right-wing, it seems like something I can only imagine in Europe, because an Obama-Cruz type of alliance seems unimaginable in a U.S. context.
Free the Hagia Sophia.
I wouldn’t mind If both them and Greeks were kicked out.
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