🚨 #BreakingNews Turkish forces just harassed the Greek state aircraft carrying Defence Minister @NikosDendias to Cyprus this evening — along with the planes of EU Defence Ministers from France and the Netherlands. All three aircraft were en route to Nicosia for tomorrow’s informal EU Defence Ministers’ Council on European Security, hosted under the Cypriot Presidency. In other words: European ministers just got a live demonstration of what it means to be an EU member state under continuous occupation and threat by Turkey — the same country that constantly complains it isn’t getting enough “EU benefits.” According to @cvenizelos / @philenewscy: • The illegal “control tower” at occupied Tymbou airport interfered with communications. • Two Turkish F-16s scrambled from the same occupied air base and shadowed the European ministers’ aircraft. This isn’t a one-off. Turkey pulled the exact same stunt during previous informal EU meetings in Cyprus. Yet today — while Ankara pretends it wants to “warm up” Euro-Turkish relations and the UN envoy begins fresh talks — it still can’t resist provoking Europe right in its own backyard,violating its own air space ! So… will the EU or the ministers involved issue a strong condemnation for this blatant violation of Cyprus’s sovereign airspace? Or does that only happen when the victim is a Baltic state? 🤔 #Cyprus #EU #Turkey #EuropeanSecurity #EUDefence