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Turkish fighter jets repeatedly harass helicopter carrying Greek Prime Minister and Armed Forces Chief

Apr 20, 2018 6:18 pm By Robert Spencer

Increasingly preoccupied as he is with his dream of restoring the Ottoman caliphate, Erdogan recently said: “We say at every opportunity we have that Syria, Iraq and other places in the geography [map] in our hearts are no different from our own homeland. We are struggling so that a foreign flag will not be waved anywhere where adhan [Islamic call to prayer in mosques] is recited.”

That includes Greece.

“Turkish fighter jets harass Tsipras’s helicopter,” Ekathimerini, April 17, 2018 (thanks to George):

Two Turkish fighter aircraft reportedly harassed the Chinook helicopter carrying Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the Greek Armed Forces Chief Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis as they were flying from the islet of Ro to Rhodes on Tuesday afternoon.

The Turkish fighter jets, flying at an altitude of 10,000 feet, asked the Greek helicopter pilot, which at that moment was at 1,500 feet, to provide flight details, according to defense sources.

The pilot immediately informed the prime minister and the HNDGS Chief and alerted the Greek air force which dispatched two fighter jets, which approached the area at 20,000 feet. The Turkish aircraft retreated.

Speaking earlier from the southeastern Aegean island of Kastellorizo earlier in the day, Tsipras said Greece will defend its principles “in any way it can… and will not cede an inch of territory,” in an apparent dig at recent provocations from Turkey….

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  1. R Russell says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 6:28 pm

    Erdogan is worth the watching. Surprised he hasn’t taken over southern Cyprus yet. After all Turkey has the north.
    Nobody helped Cyprus when she lost the north, so I doubt anyone will bother if the south is taken.

    • Baucent says

      Apr 20, 2018 at 11:51 pm

      I’m not so sure of that. After the weak Western response to Crimea, there may be more steel and will to prevent more “annexations” from the South China sea to Cyprus. Erdee would love to overrun Cyprus, but there is a British air force base there which complicates things. He is more likely to widen his border into Syria for “security reasons”. He can have romantic thoughts about the old empire, but these days the people living in those regions would regard the Turk as a foreign invader.

      • Peace says

        Apr 21, 2018 at 12:16 am

        I don’t know why the Turks shouldn’t have Syria, that would keep them busy and be a huge drain on their economy, they could rebuild Syria with their taxpayer money.. (that alone would upset the turkish population … & could lead to an anti Erdogan Coo)

        The US could help the Kurds and be ruthless with that, making a corridor to the Med

        Turks being Sunni would have to deal with the Shites, that would sort Hesbolla & Iran ….
        Asadd would be surrounded ..

        Being part of NATO, Turkey would have to sort the Russians …. (another drain on their economy)
        Being part of NATO Turkey wouldn’t get very far with attacking Israel, or at least give NATO a chance to kick them out .

        The Turks would be to busy to harass Greece

        It makes sense all round ………

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 22, 2018 at 9:03 pm

          It would devaste the surviving Christian community in Syria–this would not be a good thing.

    • J D S says

      Apr 21, 2018 at 10:51 am

      Looks like it might be time for Ergadon to fade away…His time is long gone by…Ottoman empire…Long gone by…never to return…

  2. Voytek Gagalka says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 6:34 pm

    Either Greece should leave NATO in protest, or demand expulsion of Turkey from that organization. Their common membership there serves no purpose and sooner or later they will clash.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 20, 2018 at 8:48 pm

      Turkey is *already* harrassing Greece.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 20, 2018 at 9:46 pm

      If a NATO country is attacked, the other NATO countries will repel the attacker. Greece cannot exist without NATO. It would be invaded immediately if it left and would have no support from anywhere.

  3. Peter Buckley says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 6:35 pm

    No surprise here. Just following the usual pattern:

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12199/turkey-targeting-greece-again

  4. Ren says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 7:12 pm

    America has its eyes in the Middle-East region thanks to Israel and now Saudi Arabia. Erdogan’s dream of a Caliphate will utterly be shattered.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 20, 2018 at 9:15 pm

      Saudi Arabia is another Islamic crap hole.

      • Ren says

        Apr 20, 2018 at 9:23 pm

        Islam is crap hole. Saudi Arabia is adhering 100% to islam.

        • Salomon gidey says

          Apr 21, 2018 at 10:24 am

          Do not forget to remember that 1.6 million Irish were enslaved by ottoman Turkey then 850K by north Africans at last 725K by English government. Greek were colonized by ottoman empire for at least 400 years…

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 22, 2018 at 9:09 pm

          Salomon, the Muslim slave raids on Ireland were terrible, but I have never heard anywhere near the 1.6 million figure you cite. Do you have links? It is important for us to be scrupulous. As of 1700, the entire estimated population of Ireland was just 3 million.

  5. Lydia Church says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 7:14 pm

    I was just thinking how we never hear anything going on in Greece, thankfully.
    I guess they are pretty good at common sense and not letting them in?
    I hope.
    Anyway, glad they are okay.

    Don’t let your guard down Greece!

    • D Austin says

      Apr 20, 2018 at 8:16 pm

      Maybe you should check the news…

      Greece opens the doors for more migrants to enter Europe: Court rules asylum seekers cannot be forced to stay in the country while being processed

      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5635331/Greece-opens-doors-migrants-enter-Europe-court-rules-forced-stay.html

      • Avenger says

        Apr 22, 2018 at 1:02 pm

        If Greece were to by force block the influx of Muslim boat people, the Greeks would be politically attcked by the EU and possibly attacked militarily by the vile Turks. Now that the House of Saud is in control of the Trump presidency, our US State Department would do nothing to aid Greece just as it did nothing when the Turks invaded Cyprus and annexed 42% of that sovereign nation.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 20, 2018 at 9:24 pm

      I’m afraid D Austin is right–Muslims are flooding into Greece and using them as a gateway into the rest of Europe.

  6. Keys says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 7:51 pm

    If this Mohammad-Hitler idolater invades his “Sudetenland”, NATO, first thing, must take out his new $1.2 billion palace (aka the “presidential complex” – recall Hitler’s Eagle’s nest complex) with over 1,000 rooms (of which 250 rooms are for his family – must have a harem) and a bunker (recall Hitler’s bunker in Berlin).

    No f’ing appeasement with millions of innocents dead later !

    • Jayell says

      Apr 21, 2018 at 12:08 am

      Mohammed was the original Nazi, so Erdogan is just behaving true to form.

      (Is that being unfair to Hitler? After all, he basically restricted himself to being a politician and didn’t really involve himself personally with the dirty business – unlike Mohammed.)

    • balam says

      Apr 21, 2018 at 4:31 am

      Every good Muslim like ERDOGAN needs a ‘HAREEM’. SEX AND SAVAGERY ARE THE TRUE SYMBOLS OF ISLAM-the absurd theology of an IMMORAL BEDUION {Mohammad} according to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk of Turkey.

  7. Linnte says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 7:55 pm

    Erdogan stretching his wings in hopes of intimidation, while the pilots of the Jets quote Muhammad, “I have been made victorious through terror”.

    • Ed Lee says

      Apr 21, 2018 at 10:31 am

      The scariest sentence in Mein Kampf is, “He who resorts to the highest level of terror wins”.

  8. gravenimage says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 8:31 pm

    Turkish fighter jets repeatedly harass helicopter carrying Greek Prime Minister and Armed Forces Chief
    ………………………

    Muslim thugs endangering the Greek PM. Why is Turkey still in NATO?

    • Richard says

      Apr 21, 2018 at 2:32 am

      Yes, the Arabs were not exactly happy with Turkish rule of rape and pillage prior to World War I. The Arabs were in armed revolt at the time and the great Muslim military genius who had reconquered the Holy Land from the Christians nine centuries earlier was a Kurd. The Turkish caliphs were not exactly kind to their own families. The reigning Caliph’s sons grew up kept in the haram. When the reigning Caliph died, his eldest son had all his dear brothers strangled. The more you learn about Islam, the more horrific it is. Their willingness to die for their religion is admirable. I cant help wishing they all would.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 22, 2018 at 9:15 pm

        Muslim Arabs love rape and pillage. They just did not want to be the victims of oppression themselves.

    • balam says

      Apr 21, 2018 at 4:50 am

      gravenimage: agree with you fully. Turkey must be expelled from N.A.T.O. When Turkey downed the Russia Jet, If the Russians had retaliated that would have started W.W 3.It is wiser, not to have an unstable and foolish friend like MUSLIM TURKEY .Sadly ,Muslims n general can never be trusted.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 22, 2018 at 9:44 pm

        True, balam.

  9. mortimer says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 8:46 pm

    FOR THE DEFINITION OF MEGALOMANIA:

    -obsession with the exercise of power, especially in the domination of others; delusions of grandeur, folie de grandeur; a thirst or lust for power; delusion about one’s own power or importance (typically as a symptom of manic or paranoid disorder).

    … see entry under picture of “ERDOGAN” in DICTIONARY …

  10. mortimer says

    Apr 20, 2018 at 8:48 pm

    MEGALOMANIA and DELUSION … NORMATIVE ISLAM, rather than an ABERRATION …

    Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 220: Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said, “I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy), and while I was sleeping, the KEYS OF THE TREASURES OF THE WORLD were brought to me and put in my hand.”

    • Keys says

      Apr 20, 2018 at 9:11 pm

      The keys to the kingdom, not of this world, were given to Peter according to the New Testement. Just the opposite of Mohammad’s keys.

      Thanks for the reference, mortimer.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 20, 2018 at 9:31 pm

      True, Mortimer–this is from the Hadith:

      Allah’s Apostle said, “I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy), and while I was sleeping, the keys of the treasures of the world were brought to me and put in my hand.”

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Apr 21, 2018 at 10:21 am

        “…the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings…”.

        Sounds like a way of describing mohammedan doublespeak and weaselwording…

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 22, 2018 at 9:45 pm

          +1

  11. Manos says

    Apr 21, 2018 at 1:25 am

    Unfortunately this left wing Greek prime minister is a traitor to Greece. He has given Greece’s sovereignty to German Bankers, he has driven Greece to the ground by the German Austerity, flooded Greece with these illegal Muslim scums. If the Turks shot down prime minister Greece’s helicopter, most Greeks will celebrate.

    anyway elections are due next year in Greece, he will be gone, let’s see what happens. As for the Turks, if turkey attacks Greece, there a plenty of Greeks in Australia, America, Canada, Germany,expect Greek backlash on Turks anywhere. As for other NATO countries, they won’t assist Greece. Maybe the only countries might assist Greece, is Serbia, Bulgaria, and maybe Israel and Egypt.

    • Richard says

      Apr 21, 2018 at 7:29 am

      “Maybe the only countries might assist Greece, is Serbia, Bulgaria, and maybe Israel and Egypt.”

      You forget Russia here. The Russians would quite like to retake Constantinople.

      At present the Russian strategy of appeasing Turkey is designed to make Turkey overreach so that it gets pushed out of NATO. Once Turkey is out of NATO Russia will have a freer hand.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 22, 2018 at 9:52 pm

        I think Russian appeasment is, sadly, the real thing. After all, Putin is also enabling a nuclear Iran. No indication at all that they intend to attack Turkey.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 22, 2018 at 9:49 pm

      Greek politicians are still targets. And no–I doubt very much that Islamic Egypt wants to help Infidel Greece.

  12. Glenn says

    Apr 21, 2018 at 4:07 am

    Here’s Obama calling Turkey a “strong NATO ally” in 2016…http://thehill.com/policy/international/294429-obama-calls-turkey-a-strong-nato-ally People really have no idea how deep the dishonesty runs with Barack, it’s beyond surreal.

  13. William Smith says

    Apr 21, 2018 at 4:35 am

    Given it’s only a month since the EU repeated its mantra of readiness for Turkish membership a lot is revealed about the EU’s couldn’t-care-less position on two CURRENT members, Greece and Cyprus and the third factor; Britain’s sovereign base in Akrotiri. Further, it’s a mere year since the European Reconstruction and Development Bank (of which Britain and the EU are principle shareholders) was funding a Turkish steelmaker during the same week that steel jobs were being lost in England, Scotland and Wales.

  14. mummymovie says

    Apr 21, 2018 at 4:55 am

    So, They’re winning the hearts and the mindless.
    Nat Geo today, ugly stuff.
    Sure< Im drunk, but from every direction, pro-hijra fluff.
    with all the money in the world, you can't buy the promotional stuff the hijra is getting.
    It feels unstoppable, but I know it's not.

  15. kouldb says

    Apr 21, 2018 at 7:01 am

    The Greeks should know. Since the Ottomans totally overran them. Meanwhile, Juncker et al. want Turkey to join the EU. If that should happen. The EU will collapse. I doubt many European nations will put up with that. The EU is on shaky ground as it. It probably won’t last another 10 years in it’s current form.

  16. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Apr 21, 2018 at 10:31 am

    Jayell, Hitler represents the mindset of mithraist christians inspired by your satan (holy spirit) to commit genocide and international brigandage. You and holy spirit will be casted into hottest lake of hellfire burning forever.

    • William says

      Apr 21, 2018 at 1:23 pm

      May God have mercy on you.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 22, 2018 at 10:02 pm

      Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:

      Jayell, Hitler represents the mindset of mithraist christians inspired by your satan (holy spirit) to commit genocide and international brigandage. You and holy spirit will be casted into hottest lake of hellfire burning forever.
      …………………………

      What absolute crap–as noted many times, Hitler *despised* Christianity as “weak and flabby”–he certainly admired Islam, though.

      And this re Christians is rich–Ibrahim itace muhammed *himself* has said that he looks forward to personally taking part in the genocide of the Jews.

  17. Infidel says

    Apr 21, 2018 at 1:08 pm

    I’ve said this b4 many times: Jehaad when the Muslim is militarily weaker to the infidel nation and OUTRIGHT WARFARE when stronger…Erdog is a savage animal…

  18. Dexter Wilson says

    Apr 21, 2018 at 1:29 pm

    Warn them then request US fighter jet group to accompany them and if they continue tell them they are going to be shot down and report this also to the media in Turkey and their president who should be removed.

  19. mummymovie says

    Apr 21, 2018 at 2:03 pm

    Sorry for the motional outburst, but sometimes the enormity of the hijra is a bit overwhelming.

    And speaking of enormity- BIG props, and congrats to Britain First.

    As of the newest issue of National Geographic, they are now etched in stone as one of the nefarious, boogey-men “hate groups”. Not quite the specific image we wanted to project, but I’ll take what I can get.

    The hijra is real, and it’s coming for all of us.

    STOP THE HIJRA

    END REFUJIHAD

    They call us fascist and then they pray
    To the God that made the world their way
    In whose name they kill and teach
    The sermons and the laws they preach

    Violence, just for kicks
    Violence, does it make any sense
    Violence, can you stop it
    Violence, do you want to

    Philosophy borne of the mind
    Try to explain the problems of our lives
    It can t explain away
    That violence is here to stay

    Say it’s just our nature
    We have to fight
    Doesn’t matter we’ve been taught
    That Might Makes Right

    -As my dear Jewish friend I studied with in Paris (gone.) said after September 11, 2001:

    I know what side I’m on. It’s time to act. Now or never.

  20. Unbeliever1 says

    Apr 21, 2018 at 6:54 pm

    You can bet your bottom dollar he won’t mess with Putin.If he does, I hope Nato keeps out of it.

  21. Schrödinger says

    Apr 23, 2018 at 8:05 am

    Endlessly seeking to justify its illegitimate foundations, including those from conquest and seizure of much of the territory of Byzantium, Turkey today fabricates and greatly exaggerates historical associations between Seljuk Turks and the ancestral peoples of the Bulgarian peninsula and more coastal regions of the Anatolian peninsula. Dividends from the Armenian massacre, in addition to slaughtering about a million Armenian Christians and forced exodus of many others, include incorporation of the better half of beautiful Armenia’s former lands.

    The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne entailed a forced population exchange of Turks and Greeks, abiding enemies, as well as both ceding territory. Overall, Turkey really got the better of that dodgy deal. However it still cannot accept that Greece was ceded the Aegean islands as part of a sincere international reconciliation effort by the abortive League of Nations.

    Recently, an irate but prominent Russian nationalist (not that bore Zhironvsky) stated his country ought modify all its maps to see the name Istanbul revert to that of Constantinople. It’s not the first time this idea has been floated by Russia. While there may have been merit to incorporating Turkey within NATO during the Soviet era, that time has long passed, particularly in view of Erdogan’s increasingly outrageous posturing and statements. However, in its wisdom, NATO not only retains Turkey’s membership but does little or nothing to respond to its increasingly menacing behaviour, of which this harassment of Greece’s PM — little short of an act of war — is but one further example. There’s also that pesky little problem of approximately 150 tactical nuclear weapons, supposedly protected by “codes”, at the Incirlik Air Base in Southern Turkey. What a mess. This Russian idea does have merit, and not only for its symbolism.

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