The meeting between Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ended and everything shows, at least at the communication level, that the next period will be "quiet".
But where the spotlight does not fall, in the unseen space of military documents and the field, everyone is waiting for July 14th.
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The Prime Minister of Greece said after the meeting with Erdogan: "Greece's benefit is for Turkey to play by our own rules. With the rules of International Law, with the rules of the multilateral schemes in which it participates, such as NATO, or of the multilateral schemes with which it wants to have a closer relationship, such as the European Union.
I want to repeat that we are at the beginning - both myself and President Erdoğan - of a new term and I have no reason at this time to doubt the sincerity of his intentions.
Is this a shift in relation to what we have seen from Turkey lately? Yes, it's a turn. It is possibly an adaptation to reality. But I have an obligation, especially when I have no written evidence to the contrary, to see the glass as half full and not half empty."
However, on July 14 and despite Mitsotakis' statements-appeals, a part of the Neptune Strike 23-2 NATO exercise will be held south of Rhodes and Kastelorizos, between units of the North Atlantic Alliance and the Turkish Armed Forces.
As the Pentateuch first revealed, Turkey two days before the meeting with Mitsotakis Erdoğan, with the NOTAM that it issued in response to the Greek one with which the required space was committed, questions the extent of the Greek airspace and states that its fighters will not submit a flight plan, with what this entails for flight safety.
Unfortunately, even today after the meeting of the two leaders, Turkey continues to respond with instructions to pilots in the Greek NOTAMs issued these two days calling on Ankara to comply, emphasizing what its fighters will do.
This obsession makes many people estimate that next Friday the first violations of air traffic rules and the first violations of the national airspace in months will take place in this sensitive area.
