ANKARA: Turkey and Greece were set to hold separate naval drills in the same region of the eastern Mediterranean on Tuesday (Aug 25), escalating ...
Turkey sent a research vessel and a small navy armada into seas Greece views as its own, escalating tensions AFP/-ANKARA: Turkey and Greece were set to hold separate naval drills in the same region of the eastern Mediterranean on Tuesday , escalating tensions over overlapping resource claims ahead of talks in Athens and Ankara by Germany's top diplomat.
Tensions rose after Turkey deployed its Oruc Reis survey vessel to waters Ankara claims in a move Athens called illegal. In response, Turkey President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused Greece of"sowing chaos" and warned it would be left alone against Turkey's navy. Another Navtex said Turkey will hold military exercises in the same area off Crete.A senior Turkish defence ministry official told Reuters the Greek Navtex was issued without coordination and threatened to"place at risk all sailors in the area".
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