With a record-breaking barrage of 52 violations of Greek airspace , the Turkish Air Force continued its provocations on Tuesday in the Aegean, after an unprecedented incident on Monday evening that saw a Hellenic Coast Guard -vessel rammed by a Turkish coastguard cutter in the Imia area.
The Greek government seems surprised by the unexpected escalation of the Turkish provocations, as Ankara seems to seek to change the status quo of the Imia rocks and essentially present them from a “no man’s land-grey zone”, as they considered until now the two islets to be, to “Turkish islands”.
In his rebuttal in the debate on the name of Macedonia in the Thessaloniki City Council, Mayor Yannis Boutaris set out the issue of renaming the Thessaloniki airport, currently named Macedonia.