It’s a mission we have tracked several times before, but not recently.
For Turkey, it is a way of marking its presence in an area that is now almost entirely Greek-controlled, further fuelling the already strong tensions between the two countries.
https://www.itamilradar.com/2026/08/12/turkish-navy-p-72mpa-returns-to-the-northern-aegean-staying-outside-greek-airspace/
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Turkish Navy P-72MPA Returns to the Northern Aegean, Staying Outside Greek Airspace
A Turkish Navy ATR P-72MPA (reg. TCB754 – c/s TURNA01), carried out a maritime patrol mission over the Aegean today, marking a return of an activity that had been largely absent from our trac…
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