- Two Turkish Air Force fighter jets reportedly harassed a helicopter carrying Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis.
- The episode comes a week after a Hellenic Air force pilot died after his Mirage 2000-5 fighter jet
- Analysts have been worried that Greece and Turkey may be inching towards a war.
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Turkish fighter jets reportedly harassed a helicopter carrying Greece's prime minister
Two Turkish Air Force fighter jets reportedly buzzed a helicopter that was carrying Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
Turkish warplanes harrased a helicopter carrying Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff
The helicopter was flying from the Greek islet of Ro to Rhodes, another Greek island in the Aegean Sea.
The Turkish jets, which were flying at approximately 10,000 feet, contacted the pilot of the Greek helicopter and asked for flight details. The Hellenic Air Force (HAF) responded by sending its own jets, which caused the Turkish fighters to veer off and leave.
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Ro and Rhodes are two of the hundreds of islands in the Aegean Sea that are controlled by Greece, but they are geographically closer to the Turkish mainland than to Athens. Rhodes is just
The episode comes just over a week after a HAF pilot died after his
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