Athens responds to Ankara with a fierce official note condemning yesterday's incident caused by Turkish military forces.
On the anniversary of Greece's Independence by the Ottoman Empire, two Turkish military planes forced Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's helicopter visiting the Aegean Agathonis island to change the flight plan until Greek planes arrived."We want dialogue and understanding, but if needed, we will do what we need, what our conscience knows for years, what our fathers have taught us: to defend our right and sovereignty," said Tsipras to Turkey.
"You must know that these foolish actions have no meaning. In vain, you waste the gasoline in this message," the Greek Prime Minister added.
According to the Greek Ministry of Defense, Turkish planes have performed on Greece's national holiday 47 other violations of Greek airspace. Since least from one week that Turkey, which is on the eve of local elections, has increased political tension with its neighbor, questioning the EEAS in the Aegean or the Eastern Mediterranean in electoral speeches by ministers or by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan .
The latter even expressed, in one of his speeches, the desire to transform St. Sophie in the mosque by causing reactions not only in Greece, but throughout the international orthodox community.
Ankara's harsh stance is escalated, especially after the tripartite Greece-Cyprus-Israel summit last week, attended by US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, a fact confirming US support for co-operation three countries and their role for security and energy developments in the Eastern Mediterranean.