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Greek media sources revealed details of a confrontation that took place during the “Medusa 10” maneuvers, in which the Turkish Navy was involved.
The Greek City Times website quoted a source from the Cypriot National Guard as saying that the Turkish navy entered the joint training area for the “Medusa 10” maneuvers, involving Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, the Emirates and France, prompting an Egyptian frigate. To face it and prevent it from progressing.
The Turkish frigate “Kemal Reis” tried to approach the training area, to receive a warning asking her to leave the place, but her refusal to make an Egyptian frigate “Olivier Hazard Berry” head towards her immediately, which forced the Turkish frigate to retreat.
The Greek website titled its coverage of the incident, saying that the Turkish army was “insulted” as a result of this confrontation from which it withdrew.
According to the report, this is the second time that the same Turkish frigate has suffered such an accident, after a Greek military frigate collided with it last August, causing a hole in its outer structure.
The joint military maneuver “Medusa 10” in the eastern Mediterranean began late last month and carried a message directed directly to the Turkish regime and also to the interior of Libya, after those maneuvers linked the theater of operations in the eastern Mediterranean in Libya. , in light of what Ankara is experiencing in terms of anticipation of European sanctions. Expected according to Sky News.
The Greek media described this version of the maneuvers as “very important” due to the timing of the maneuver that occurred in light of the escalating tensions between the countries participating in the maneuver on the one hand, and Ankara on the other, to the excesses of the Turkish exploration ships in the eastern Mediterranean and the territorial waters of Cyprus and Greece. And, also along with the blatant Turkish intervention in Libya.
Greek newspapers indicated that the “Medusa 10” exercises will include joint military exercises in aviation and navy. The joint exercise between the five countries will be carried out in 3 stages, which include search and rescue, electronic warfare, surface exercises and maritime formations.
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