I haven’t read all the pages of this thread, but if you check Greece they have some new higher rez scans of some of the airbases which were in very low rez before.

I’m using the free service and fired it up last night after some time.

Here is a picture of Larisa AFB north of the runway, many F-4s to be seen!

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[size=5]Turkey Finalizes Threat Paper[/size]

By BURAK EGE BEKDIL, ANKARA And UMIT ENGINSOY, WASHINGTON

After months of undisclosed deliberations, Ankara has endorsed a national threat paper, a document that shapes Turkey’s defense and procurement doctrines.

A top security official said that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government recently sealed the National Security Policy Document. It “was approved by the Cabinet, as it was suggested by the National Security Council,” the official said.

The National Security Council, Turkey’s top security panel that includes government and military leaders, last year proposed a draft threat paper saying Turkey faced both conventional and asymmetrical threats.

The document, a copy of which was shown to Defense News, lists radical Islam, separatism and extreme left groups as domestic security threats. “Turkey will not give up universal values while fighting these threats,” it says. “Turkey’s territorial integrity will be protected in line with the principles of a democratic, secular and lawful state.”
The paper notes the importance of relations with the United States.

“Building a pro-Turkish public opinion in the United States is important for Turkey’s security,” it says. Turkish-U.S. relations “are of strategic importance; but this should not be perceived as an alternative to Turkey’s EU bid.”

Turkey and the European Union formally opened full membership negotiations in October.

The document warns that Iran and Iraq pose uncertainty and risk for Turkey. “[Iran’s] Shabab missiles are a threat for Turkey,” according to the paper.

“We need a nuclear-free region,” said Army Lt. Gen. Hilmi Akin Zorlu, the General Staff’s chief of plans and policy, during a visit to Washington March 28.

Zorlu also said, “The preservation of Iraq’s political unity and territorial integrity is essential.”

Other excerpts from the document include:

[i]• If Greece extends the territorial waters of its Aegean islands from six to 12 miles, this will be a casus belli, or reason for war.

• The platform for a solution to the Cyprus dispute is the United Nations. The Turkish troops on the island are of vital importance for the security of Turkish Cypriots. The breakaway statelet of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus will be strengthened and protected until there is a lasting settlement to the Cyprus dispute.
Turkey’s stance on Greece’s territorial waters angered Athens.

Ankara says such a Greek move effectively would make it impossible for Turkish ships to sail from Turkish ports to the Mediterranean Sea through the Aegean without entering Greek waters. But Greek diplomats criticized Turkey’s decision to retain this article in the security document as Ankara seeks EU membership.

“Turkey’s European future lies in its own hands on the application of the European norms and practices, both inside Turkey and in their relationships with the neighbors, particularly Greece and Cyprus,” Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis said March 23 at a joint news conference with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington.

Turkey has kept about 30,000 troops on Cyprus since it invaded the Turkish northern third of the island in 1974, in response to a brief Greek Cypriot coup that aimed at annexation with Greece.[/i]

Reha Tartici, director of the Istanbul-based research house Consensus, said the new threat document also will affect some of Turkey’s procurement decisions.
“In a way, it will be a guideline for a future shift to smart weaponry instead of conventional arms,” Tartici said. “The newly relaunched satellite program is a good example.”

Turkey’s government had earmarked an initial $138 million for the country’s space program, and asked local and international manufacturers to respond to a request for information. But a procurement official familiar with the program said the eventual cost may exceed $250 million.

http://www.defensenews.com/index.php

Bold italics added by me.

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Yeah some are just a little touchy! 😮

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=53248

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