Double reaction to the Turkish provocation in the Aegean

Bye and letters, Athens reacted to the new Navtex issued by Turkey, with the aim of stopping Greek exercises in the South-East Aegean and raising again the issue of demilitarization of the islands. The double reaction came yesterday with the delivery of a verbal communication from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Turkish side, while at the same time, according to diplomatic sources, letters of protest from the Hydrographic Service were also sent to the competent agency and to the Spanish Navtex coordinator of the Mediterranean and Black Sea region. I remind you that, as “TA NEA” revealed yesterday, Turkey issued a Navtex for a Greek aeronautical exercise taking place southeast of the Karpathos, claiming, more or less, that the area is… under Turkish jurisdiction. While he also issued an anti-NOTAM for a Greek aeronautical exercise between Lemnos, Ai Strati, Psara and Lesvos, from February 20 to 22, with the well-known complaints about the demilitarization of all the islands of the Eastern Aegean, from Thassos to Kastellorizo.