EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN:
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Saudi Arabia dashed Turkey’s hopes of a quick reconciliation that would overcome differences with Ankara, after Saudi F-15C fighters arrived on the island of Crete with their ground crews to participate in a training exercise with Greece in the Eastern Mediterranean, in a move that seems to have received Egyptian support. The arrival of Saudi fighters at Souda air base in Crete to take part in the “Ain al-Saqr 1” exercise increases French-Greek-Egyptian pressures on Turkey to check its expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean.
SOURCE: THE ARAB WEEKLY
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