Turkish-Greek dogfight Over Aegean - Turkish Sub. Sails Round Cyprus EEZ

Turkish fighter jets chased a Greek civil aviation aircraft over the island of Samos in the eastern Aegean, Real FM reported on Wednesday.  National Defence Minister Nikos Dendias, who at the time was flying from the nearby island of Chios to Psara, told reporters that two Turkish F16 harassed a Greek civil aviation aircraft.

The chase apparently transformed into a dogfight with Greek fighter jets following Turkish planes over the island of Mykonos.

The report on Real Fm said that Tactical Airforce Headquarters chief Christos Vaitsi spoke with his Turkish counterpart on the "red line" and Turkey explained that the Turkish pilot acted on his own initiative.

(Of course anyone with a half a brain... doesn't buy into the Turkish Chief's excuse and knows very well that Ankara is trying to provoke the Greek side into reacting so that it can raise the tension even more in the East Mediterranean.)

Meanwhile, a Turkish submarine suspiciously escaped from the ongoing NATO military exercises that are currently being held in the Eastern Mediterranean and began sailing in the Cape Greco sea area.

A report from the military news site defencenet said that The Turkish submarine, Burakreis S 359, abandoned the NATO Exercise "Blue Whale" because the Turkish navy officials "felt" that this was the right thing to do.

The submarine did not update NATO as required and approached the Cypriot coast, or arrived in the Cape Greco area. It then began to sail around plots 3 and 13 of Cyprus' EEZ, and the greater area.

NATO officials are annoyed by the Turkish behavior but they are continuing with the naval exercises, and not necessarily slapping Turkey on the wrists for doing so.

(It is obvious that NATO is not at all concerned with Turkish aggression towards Greece and/or Cyprus and for yet another time, turns the other cheek whenever Ankara decides to throw its weight around in the Aegean.)