The United States has condemned Turkey for violating Greek airspace

According to Fars News Agency’s International Service, the US Deputy Secretary of State condemned the violation of Greek airspace by Turkish fighters and called it “provocative.”

According to the website «Hello“The United States does not support such abuses,” US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland was quoted as saying by the Greek newspaper The Greek City Times.

Greece last Wednesday accused Turkey of escalating tensions in the Aegean Sea and violating its airspace with fighter jets. Greek Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexandros Papaioanno also told reporters that Athens had registered 42 illegal flights last Wednesday.

The Greek official said Wednesday’s figures broke the previous quota of 23 one-day flights in 2020. Athens has informed the United Nations, the European Union and NATO of what violates Greek sovereignty, Papaioanno said.

The daily also reports that Ankara reported 30 violations of Turkish airspace by Greece to NATO last Tuesday and Wednesday.

“We are in talks but we have not completed the negotiations,” Nuland said.

Turkey has requested the purchase of 40 of the latest F-16s and approximately 80 modernization kits for its existing warplanes from Lockheed Martin.

The Greek City Times recently quoted military analysts as saying that Greek fighter radars and missiles have the ability to detect Turkish fighters and attack them before the pilots notice.

Military analysts have said that it is necessary for Turkey to upgrade its F-16 fighter fleet to F-16 block to confront Greece, an upgrade that is currently underway in Greece, but has not been done in Turkey.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently said that proposals were being considered, but that only two radar fighters other than the F-35 were currently in production, one a Russian-made Sukhoi-57 and the other a G-20. Made in China. The high price of the Sukhoi-57 is said to be the most important obstacle to Ankara’s purchase of the fighter.

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