New provocation: Turkey staging naval drills in Aegean Sea
Turkey is resuming its provocations against Greece, following weeks of calm between the two countries.
Turkey
has issued two naval warnings in preparation for conducting naval drills north
and east of the Aegean Sea in the coming period, according to Greek media.
The
European Union works, meanwhile, to calm down tensions between the two
countries.
The
Turkish army conducted exercises in three different locations in the
Mediterranean from January 4 to January 8.
The
exercises come less than a month after the EU imposed sanctions on Turkey
against the background of its provocative policies in the Mediterranean and its
violations of the law of the seas off the coasts of both Greece and Cyprus.
Hostile
behavior
Greece
is responding by conducting similar drills in its bid to make the required
deterrence to Turkey. The Greece navy conducted a live fire exercise in the
area between Crete and Cyprus islands. Meanwhile, simulation battles are
intensifying between Greek and Turkish pilots over the Aegean Sea and the
Mediterranean.
Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tried to send Turkish gas exploration ships off
the Greek and Cypriot coasts several times in the past period. This made Greece
and the EU angry.
Deterring
decisions
