airspace which turkey disputes around its island and sometimes over flights of islands as well the greek air force considers that these incursions are not simply statements of turkish non-acceptance of greek air space in the aegean but also tests of greek readiness and those dogs right there are a daily event in the achaean here we have them happening in the eastern mediterranean they may increasingly happen because greek military exercises are now going south and east of where they usually take place there include creasing lee involving other countries in the eastern mediterranean. there are unconfirmed under pressure all reports that the united arab emirates. took part in what was billed as a purely greek military exercise south of crete and the last 3 days. therefore i think there's just going to be a lot more military activity in that space. protest as a gathering and then from march against coronavirus restrictions counter-protests are also planned days on live pictures now from. chancellor angela merkel has warned that the outbreak could get worse in the coming months as summer comes to an e

greece to intercept those turkish fighter jets and to show them that they are alert because the greek air force considers that these incursions are not simply statements of turkish non-acceptance of greek air space in the aegean but also tests of the greek readiness and those dogs right therefore are a daily event in the achaean here we have them happening in the eastern mediterranean they may increase in lee happened because greek military exercises are now going south and east of where they usually take place there include creasing lee involving other countries in the eastern mediterranean. there are unconfirmed unofficial reports that the united arab emirates. took part in what was billed as a purely greek military exercise south of crete and the last 3 days. therefore i think there's just going to be a lot more military activity in that space and that will persist as long as turkey issues navigational telex is announcing a new round of exploration in what the greeks consider their continent. ok john psaropoulos there bring is all the very latest from athens thank you very much indeed well l

air new juan is pursuing a more ambitious foreign policy he showed up with forces in libya he signed an agreement with libya that demarcated new maritime boundaries in the mediterranean metro the greeks crazy so they went out and forged an agreement with egypt now you have the ship showing up a turkish ship just off shore of the greek island and i think the french are trying to say hold on we're going to try to cool the temperature here before things get out of hand nobody wants to go to war nobody wants to see to nato members mix it up on the other hand when you have this many naval vessels when tensions are this high when you have turkish exploration this ship that you mention is taking seismic soundings the 1st step in drilling for gas you know things are are in a kind of dangerous place i think in some ways you're seeing an all hands on deck diplomatic response because there is a conversation taking place between the u.s. secretary of state and the greek foreign minister nato is is trying to rise to the occasion the e.u. is going to hold an emergency session so that's a sign to me that people are really worried about the situation and keep in mind that you have a backdrop of tens

air new won is pursuing a more ambitious foreign policy he showed up with forces in libya he signed an agreement with libya that demarcated numeric time batteries in the mediterranean that drove the greeks crazy so they went out and forged are going to remain with egypt now you have the ship showing up at turkish ship just off shore of the greek island and i think the french are trying to say hold on we're going to try to cool the temperature here before things get out of hand yet charles only sold those pictures yesterday of turkish naval warships escorting that research ship in the area with great ship shadowing that whole flotilla how alarming were those pictures . well you know a similar kind of thing happened a few weeks ago off the coast of libya where you had a got an unfortunate incident between a french vessel and a turkish vessel french being there as part of an offshore effort to enforce the arms embargo so we've already seen the french and the turks mix it up at this time in libya and now it's over much closer to the to the turkish greek area and you know i think nobody nobody wants to go to war nobody wants to see 2 nato members mix it up on the other hand when you have thi

air new wine is pursuing a more ambitious foreign policy he showed up with forces in libya he signed an agreement with libya that demarcated new maritime boundaries in the mediterranean that drove the greeks crazy so they went out and forged an agreement with egypt now you have the ship showing up a turkish ship just off shore of the greek island and i think the french are trying to say hold on we're going to try to cool the temperature here before things get out of hand nobody wants to go to war nobody wants to see to nato members mix it up on the other hand when you have this many naval vessels when tensions are this high when you have turkish exploration this ship that you mentioned is taking seismic soundings the 1st step in drilling for gas you know things are are in a kind of dangerous place i think in some ways you're seeing an all hands on deck diplomatic response because there is a conversation taking place between the u.s. secretary of state and the greek foreign minister nato is is trying to rise to the occasion the e.u. is going to hold an emergency session so that's a sign to me that people are really worried about the situation and keep in mind that you have a backdrop of te