His government partner began to threaten Greece Tayyip Erdogan, Devlet Bahcelireferring to Turkey’s statements about the “lockdown” Turkish F-16 from S-300 missiles located in Crete.

According to Kathimerini and SKAI’s correspondent in Istanbul, Manolis Kostidis, Devlet Bahceli said that this particular event is a hostile response and a pre-arranged provocation, while stressing that he wants the current Greek government to “come to immediately come to itself” and “stop chasing madness”, otherwise the price Greece will pay will be much heavier than what happened in 1922.

Athens refutes Turkish claims about F-16 ‘lock-in’ by Greek S-300s

In complete denial Turkish statements about “blocking” Turkish F-16s with S-300s located in Crete done yesterday, Sunday, by the Greek side. As they mentioned from military sources, there was no “capture of the S-300”.

Same sources they emphasized that “the interception is being carried out by our fighters in accordance with international regulations in accordance with standard practice.”

It is recalled that, according to Ankara, “the S-300 target tracking and missile guidance radar blocked with its radar a Turkish F-16, which was on a reconnaissance mission 10,000 feet west of Rhodes”, saying, in fact, “hostile action”.

The Turkish claims are said to follow similar leaks in recent times. with Ankara stepping up rhetoric about “persecution of Greece”, even with NATO involvement.