By Nikolas Katsimpras
May 23rd 2006. Karpathos, Southeastern Aegean. Hellenic Air Force pilot Captain Kostas Eliakis takes off from Suda, Crete, to intercept one of the thousands of Turkish intrusions. Something as absurd as waving off an “ally’s” aggression has become routine for pilots like Eliakis, whose whole career, for the past thirty years, has been based on this insanity.
May 23rd 2006. Karpathos, Southeastern Aegean. Hellenic Air Force pilot Captain Kostas Eliakis takes off from Suda, Crete, to intercept one of the thousands of Turkish intrusions. Something as absurd as waving off an “ally’s” aggression has become routine for pilots like Eliakis, whose whole career, for the past thirty years, has been based on this insanity.