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*** 7-Jun-18 World View -- Turkey and Greece tensions rise with warplane dogfights over Aegean Sea

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  • Turkey and Greece tensions rise with warplane dogfights over Aegean Sea
  • Deep millennia-old issues separate Turkey and Greece

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Alexis Tsipris and Recep Tayyip Erdogan meeting in Athens last December (AFP)

On Tuesday, Turkish warplanes held a barrage of flyovers over the
Aegean Sea, in some cases flying over Greece's airspace. The flyovers
are in revenge for the release of the last four of eight military
servicemen into protective custody.

Since the aborted coup attempt on Turkey on July 16, 2016, Turkey has
been demanding the extradition of eight Turkish soldiers who fled to
northern Greece after the coup. The eight soldiers, including two
commanders, four captains and two sergeants, had escaped to Greece on
a Sikorsky helicopter and landed in Alexandroupolis. The soldiers
denied involvement in the coup, but said that they would not receive a
fair trial in Turkey.

Greece refused to extradite them without an appropriate court hearing,
and an extradition trial in Greece requested by Turkey. The detention
period expired after 18 months, without Turkey having requested a
trial in Greece. In March, the Council of State -- Greece’s highest
administrative court -- ruled that the first of the eight men should
be freed from detention, although he's barred from leaving Greece, and
stays at a secret location with tight security, as his asylum
application is ongoing. These rulings have continued, and on Tuesday
the last four of the eight military servicemen were similarly freed.

According to a Greek analyst:

<QUOTE>"The dilemma for the Greek authorities was that if
these people were sent back to Turkey ... a fair trial is not
guaranteed. And that was at a time [July, 2016] when the
re-instatement of the death penalty was frequently discussed at
many levels including [that of] President Erdogan.

So it was impossible for the Greek justice system to send them
back. It has nothing to do with their actual guilt or innocence,
it was about the right to a fair trial [if] they were sent back to
Turkey."<END QUOTE>


Turkey refers to the eight soldiers as "putschists," and blamed Greece
for harboring traitors:

<QUOTE>"The release of all the fugitive putschists cannot be
explained as a routine administrative decision pertaining to their
detention period.

The release of the traitors who plotted a coup in order to
overthrow democracy in a neighboring country by a country, which
claims to be the cradle of the democracy conforms neither to
international law, nor to good neighborly relations."<END QUOTE>


Turkey retaliated in March by seizing two Greek soldiers, who had
crossed the border from Greece into Turkey. The soldiers say they
inadvertently strayed across the frontier in bad weather.

In April, Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan linked Turkey's
seizure of the two Greek soldiers to the fate of the eight Turkish
soldiers who had fled after the aborted coup: "It is not fair to be
concerned only by the Greek soldiers and not be concerned about the
Turkish soldiers." Greek Reporter and Radio France International and Hurriyet (Turkey) and Guardian (London, 12-March)

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On December 7-8, 2017, Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan paid a
state visit to Greece's president Alexis Tsipras in Athens, the first
official visit between heads of state since 1952. It appears that no
issues were resolved at that meeting, least of all the fate of the
Turkish soldiers being held in Greece.

Wars between Greece and Turkey go back millennia, even celebrated in
Greek mythology in the story of the Trojan Horse and the fall of Troy.
In 1974, the countries fought a war over the island of Cyprus, with
the result that the small island is split between a Greek portion and
a Turkish portion. Cyprus unification talks are frequently scheduled,
but with tensions growing between Greece and Turkey, they are unlikely
to succeed.

Besides the issues of Cyprus and the soldiers being held by each side,
there has been a growing disagreement over the sovereignty of hundreds
of islands in the Aegean Sea. The boundaries between Turkey and
Greece, and the disposition of the islets in the Aegean Sea, were
settled by the Treaty of Lausanne, signed by both countries on July
24, 1923.

According to Erdogan, Turkey was deceived and cheated when it signed
the Treaty of Lausanne, and he would like to renegotiate the treaty.
Turkey has expressed the desire to renegotiate the treaty with a
series of very belligerent military moves.

In February a Turkish vessel rammed a Greek coastguard ship as both
patrolled the waters off the Greek isle of Imia, causing extensive
damage. Imia is one of the islands that Erdogan is disputing,
claiming that it should have Turkish sovereignty.

Tuesday's flyovers by Turkish warplanes over the Aegean Sea are just
the most recent of what are being characterized as "dogfights," where
almost on a daily basis Turkish warplanes violate Greek airspace, and
the Turkish warplanes are intercepted by Greek warplanes on policing
missions. Although deaths are uncommon, a Greek fighter jet crashed
in April, killing the pilot.

It's hoped that Turkey-Greece tensions will reduce after Turkey's
national elections on June 24. Kathimerini (Athens) and Business Insider and London School of Economics and Anadolu

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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
Greece, Alexis Tsipras, Aegean Sea, Cyprus,
Treaty of Lausanne

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