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Greece's defense minister described TURKEY on Wednesday as an enemy that continues to provoke us and said he had ordered the deployment of more military personnel to islands in the eastern Aegean Sea
Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said 7,000 service members were being moved to the islands and a border area in northeast Greece amid a spike in tension between the two NATO allies
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/greek-minister-country-vigilant-enemy-turkey-54230402
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Turkish Navy blocked Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos's visit to contested islets in the Aegean Sea Jan 28 2018
5 Turkish Warships on manoeuvers in the Mediterranean Sea have blocked a rig belonging to the Italian energy firm ENI from reaching an area of Turkish Cyprus to start searching for gas
The March 1 arrest of two Greek soldiers who strayed into Turkish territory while on a border patrol has further strained relations between the two countries. The soldiers remain detained in a Turkish prison
Imia/Kardak was the object of a military crisis and subsequent dispute over sovereignty between Greece and Turkey in 1996
in 1996 8-12 Turkish Special Forces SAT Commandos captured the Island .... and planted the Turkish Flag on the west Island
and Americans said to Greeks that the TURKS captured Island and It wasn't until 4 hours later when the Greeks noticed this when a Greek Helicopter took off at 5.30 am from the Greek Frigate for reconnaissance
during the mission Turkish Navy shot down Greek Helicopter with Electronic Warfare attack over the Island and 3 Greek officers on the Helicopter died (Christodoulos Karathanasis, Panagiotis Vlahakos,and Ektoras Gialopsos)
and Greek Admiral Hristos Limberis resigned in 1996
Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said 7,000 service members were being moved to the islands and a border area in northeast Greece amid a spike in tension between the two NATO allies
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/greek-minister-country-vigilant-enemy-turkey-54230402
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Turkish Navy blocked Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos's visit to contested islets in the Aegean Sea Jan 28 2018
5 Turkish Warships on manoeuvers in the Mediterranean Sea have blocked a rig belonging to the Italian energy firm ENI from reaching an area of Turkish Cyprus to start searching for gas
The March 1 arrest of two Greek soldiers who strayed into Turkish territory while on a border patrol has further strained relations between the two countries. The soldiers remain detained in a Turkish prison
Imia/Kardak was the object of a military crisis and subsequent dispute over sovereignty between Greece and Turkey in 1996
in 1996 8-12 Turkish Special Forces SAT Commandos captured the Island .... and planted the Turkish Flag on the west Island
and Americans said to Greeks that the TURKS captured Island and It wasn't until 4 hours later when the Greeks noticed this when a Greek Helicopter took off at 5.30 am from the Greek Frigate for reconnaissance
during the mission Turkish Navy shot down Greek Helicopter with Electronic Warfare attack over the Island and 3 Greek officers on the Helicopter died (Christodoulos Karathanasis, Panagiotis Vlahakos,and Ektoras Gialopsos)
and Greek Admiral Hristos Limberis resigned in 1996