7 hours agoThe Greek Army hits the Turkish plane, what's going on?
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The Greek Defence Ministry has suggested that, for the first time, its military forces have intervened to prevent flights over the Greek Aegean islands of a Turkish plane without a pilot, so-called spies fear. The event took place just days after Ankara declared it has entered its arsenal [...]
The Greek Defence Ministry has suggested that, for the first time, its military forces have intervened to prevent flights over the Greek Aegean islands of a Turkish plane without a pilot, so-called spies fear.
The event took place just days after Ankara has claimed to have introduced such aircraft into its military arsenal. The Type's Word on It U n AV The ANKA, Turkish production, has violated Greek airspace at noon Thursday in the Dodekanisa region more than twice. As soon as he was discovered by the military radar, he was followed and taken into custody by two F16 Fsharaca aircraft.
The pilotless plane, established by the Turkish military base of Dalama, is destined for intelligence missions aimed at collecting information, as well as photographs of certain areas. The incident in question occurs at a moment when relations between the two countries are extremely tense and bilateral rhetoric has reached a peak.
In recent hours, Greece's Defence Minister Panos Kammenos has declared that under a reshuffle of the army, he has ordered the sending of 3,500 Greek soldiers to Greece's military departments on the border with Turkey, near the Evro River, as well as so many others along the Aegean Sea islands, where incidents with Turkish Navy forces are frequent, especially in recent days.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Tsipra, in an interview with the newspaper “Documento”, has asked Ankara to end the calvar of two Greek military men who were arrested by Turkish forces, few metres inside their border early last month.
