Greece lacked any offensive stand off weapon until recently whilst the Turkish AF included these a long time ago. Add to this a large number of ever increasing landing craft, LVDs and bridging equipment for Thrace of which Greece never fielded. Long range tactical missiles which Greece never sought to acquire.
I cannot recall when did Greece acquire SCALP cruise missiles for the upgraded Mirage 2000, which are far more superior to Popeye, the only long(ish) range PGM TurAF had (for use with F-4E 2020), at the time Greece made the order.
Additionally, you seem to be ignoring the number of ATACMS TBM’s Greece has (153 missiles according to Jane’s, 121 according to SIPRI) versus Turkey’s (72 delivered out of an order of 120, before the US semi-embargo in 90’s) The Yildirim TBM produced under license by China is roughly equivalent to ATACMS, slightly less capable in terms of precision btw.
Also Greece negotiated with Russia on the procurement of Iskander TBM’s sometime in 2003 – 2004 IIRC.
In arms race, you cannot clearly trace who did what first. Here the only difference is Greece arms almost exclusively against Turkey, while the latter’s list of threats & requirements is a little bit longer 😉
By the way, Greece procured and fielded airborne early warning and control aircraft (Erieye) long before Turkey, thanks to the delays in the Peace Eagle project.
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