Greece has protested against the flights of Turkish fighter jets over Aegean islands.
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias told the Athens newspaper Kathimerini (Sunday) that the numerous overflights of the fighter bombers were a blatant violation of international law and not in line with recent efforts to ease tensions between Athens and Ankara.
From Monday to Holy Saturday, Turkish fighter jets violated Greek airspace more than 200 times and flew over Greek islands in the Aegean Sea at least 30 times.
Some planes flew over Greek islands at an altitude of just 460 meters.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met in Istanbul in March after a long ice age between the two NATO countries and announced that they want to reduce tensions in the region to avoid NATO's southeastern flank in view of the Ukraine war additional burden.
Greece: prepare islands for defense
Turkey denies Greece sovereignty over a number of islands in the eastern Aegean because they are not demilitarized.
Turkey has already sent corresponding notifications to the United Nations in recent months.
Turkey argues that militarization of the islands is not in line with the Lausanne (1923) and Paris (1947) treaties.
Greece, on the other hand, refers to the numerous landing craft on Turkey's west coast, which threatened the islands.
Therefore, the islands would have to be armed for defense.
From the point of view of the Greek government, the United Nations Charter justifies these defensive measures.