Turkey's foreign ministry slams Greek court decision on Turkish pilot

Turkey's Foreign Ministry railed against Greece's supreme administrative court which granted asylum to one of the Turkish servicemen who fled to Greece after the botched coup in the neighboring country in 2016.

According to the Council of State's ruling in May, published on Wednesday, Suleyman Ozkaynakci, the man who piloted the helicopter in which he and seven other Turkish officers arrived in Greece, could be eligible to receive travel documents.

"This decision not only breaches Greece's international obligations to combat terrorism, but also constitutes a violation of the provisions of the 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees," he Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a press release describing the ruling as "scandalous."

"By rejecting the extradition of the putschist traitors, Greece has prepared the ground for such decisions, which offends...