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Greece concerned about rise in tension with Turkey

Jorge Benitez | June 23, 2009

From Taiwan News Online: (Associated Press) NATO allies Greece and Turkey have been at odds for years over airspace boundaries and flight procedures in the Aegean Sea that forms the border between them, and mock dogfights between fighter jets from each side are common.
But
[Greek Foreign Minister] Dora Bakoyannis told The Associated Press that Turkish military jets were flying over inhabited Greek islands.
"There is an increase in tension in the Aegean, which is evaluated very seriously by the Greek side," Bakoyannis said. "We have overflights _ not the usual overflights we had in the past, but overflights over inhabited islands _ which worries us greatly."

 

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