Turkey seems determined to escalate tensions with Greece as on Wednesday morning the Turkish embassy in Athens, raised again the case of 8 Turkish officers who took refuge by helicopter in Alexandroupolis in July 2016, after the failed coup in Turkey.
Ankara chose this day, four years after the failed coup attempt against the Turkish president, to bring this issue up as it is attempting to expand the negotiating revisionist agenda.
Specifically, the Turkish embassy in Athens states in a post on Facebook the following:
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In January 2017, the Supreme Court decided not to proceed with the extradition of the 8 officers, rejecting the requests of the Turkish authorities and accepted their requests for reversal of the decisions of the Athens Board of Appeals that had been in favor of the extradition.
This was followed in March 2018 by a new unanimous decision by the Three-Member Board of Appeals, which also rejected the request for extradition, judging that the Turkish side failed to submit the necessary evidence to support its request.
According to the court ruling, in any case, there are reasonable suspicions that the officers will not have a fair trial in Turkey while there is a risk of suffering torture, inhuman and degrading treatment.
