It is supposed that summers in the Aegean should be "calm". This is imposed at least by the "Papoulias-Yilmaz memorandum" of 1988, but also by the practice followed by Greece and Turkey in previous years, with this "tradition" being disrupted from 2020 onwards.

The Turks in the Aegean are facing extreme challenges in order to irritate the Air Force and the Greek air defense in general.

Greece's Permanent Representative to the UN has sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General underlining that Turkey’s unilateral accusations about a militarization of Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean islands and the connection of this to Greek sovereignty, are completely unfounded, unsupported, as well as legally and historically incorrect, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday.