Posted on 04/16/2014 9:10:58 AM PDT by Altenkrug
Turkish and Greek fighter jets engaged in a mid-air dogfight over the Aegean Sea twice on April 15 in a first since January 2012, Greek media has reported.
According to the reports based on Greek military sources, four F-16s belonging to the Turkish Air Force approached the Samothraki Island before the first dogfight. Four Greek F-16s took off “to locate and prevent” the Turkish aircraft. Sides faced off against each other north of Samothraki, as well as southwest of Limnos Island.
Greece unilaterally claims 10 nautical miles (19 km) of airspace, as opposed to the six miles of territorial waters, as Turkey and other NATO countries accept. Athens considers any unauthorized flight in the airspace from six to 10 miles in the Aegean a “violation.”
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Brilliant idea letting Turkey into NATO. /s
At the time it was a great idea with the Turks sharing a common border with the Soviet Union and the traditional Russian strategic of unimpeded access to the Med from the Black Sea. In a shooting war, rather have the Turks on my side than the Greeks.
Don’t the Turks participate in
The Religion of Peace ® ?
VERY quickly becoming a very multipolar world, a key Obama aim.
This trend willl accelerate.
The 'reporters' that write this drivel are clueless about almost everything in their lives. Maybe not even "almost" but totally clueless. The 100 monkeys at 100 typewriters could easily do as well.
Is it really a dogfight if nobody tries to shoot the other guy down?
My goodness, what would NATO say?
Great journalism fail. They call it a Dog Fight. This assumes there were shots fired and/or downed fighter jets. Then there is no mention of either.
No details = Sensationalized Event
In 1952 when Turkey joined NATO, it was the only member that actually bordered the Soviet Union. And the fact that they don’t get along with the Greeks isn’t exactly news.
” The 100 monkeys at 100 typewriters could easily do as well.”
““To be or not to be, that is the gazornenplatz.” Newhart
Me too...I was gonna get nervous about running out of popcorn!
Never let a Turk get behind your wingline...for a whole host of reasons.
Turkey has access to 40 of our B61 nukes stationed on their soil per the basing agreement.
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