A Turkish fighter jet was ‘harassed’ by Greek jets on Wednesday, the Turkish General Staff announced in a statement published in Daily Sabah.
According to the statement, the Greek F-16 planes “harassed” Turkish F-16 by putting it under radar-lock while it was flying over the Aegean Sea along with seven more Turkish F-16 planes.
The Turkish jets were carrying out reconnaissance and surveillance missions in international airspace over the Aegean Sea, the military’s statement said.
The statement refers to the latest violation of Greek airspace by Turkish fighter jets that took place Tuesday, when a formation of six Turkish F15s entered the Athens Information Region between Lesvos and Chios at 3.01 p.m. before splitting into two groups.
Four jets flew over the island of Fourni between Samos and Chios at 3.25 p.m. while the other two flew over Makronisi and Anthropofagoi islets before flying over Agathonisi.
The Turkish jets were chased off by Greek aircraft.
“Fortunately our pilots are not as mercurial as yours [were] against the Russians,” Tsipras told his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu in one of four tweets that were later erased in reference to Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian fighter jet flying in its national air space last week.
