Posted on 02/19/2018 10:35:31 AM PST by blam
In an incident that took place less than two weeks after the Greek Defense Ministry announced that Turkey had violated Greek airspace 138 times in a single day, a Turkish coast guard patrol boat on February 13 rammed a Greek coast guard vessel off the shore of Imia, one of many Greek islands over which Turkey claims sovereignty.
Most of the areas within modern Greece's current borders were under the occupation of the Ottoman Empire from the mid-15th century until the Greek War of Independence in 1821 and the establishment of the modern Greek state in 1832. The islands, however, like the rest of Greece, are legally and historically Greek, as their names indicate.
Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), however, and even much of the opposition seem intent on, if not obsessed with, invading and conquering these Greek islands, on the grounds that they are actually Turkish territory.
In December, for instance, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the main Turkish opposition CHP party, stated that when he wins the election in 2019, he will "invade and take over 18 Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, just as former Turkish PM Bulent Ecevit invaded Cyprus in 1974." He said that there is "no document" proving that those islands belong to Greece.
Meral Akşener, the head of the newly established opposition "Good Party," has also called for an invasion and conquest of the islands. "What is required must be done," she tweeted on January 13.
The most garish muscle-flexing has come from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, of course, who seems emboldened by his military invasion of the Afrin region in northern Syria having gone virtually unchallenged.
"We warn those who have crossed the line in the Aegean and Cyprus," Erdoğan declared, continuing:
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Again?
“Again?”
Beat me to it.
Meanwhile, the world wonders
If Russia attacks Turkey from the rear, will Greece help?
Just do it. Turkey does not want to and Greece can’t afford to fight.
I apologize. I read the headline, and for a fraction of a second, I had the vision of a Tom Turkey gobbling with rage, and trying to get through customs in Athen’s Greece.
I would actually support Greece and the Russians to reestablish Constantinople.
Could it be worse that the Turks constantly harboring dreams of re-establishing the Caliphate??
MAMGA!!!
Make Asia Minor Greece Again!
BBB!!!
Bring Back Byzantium!
What? The Turks didn’t kill enough Christians in the past?
I guess the British museum shouldn’t return the Greek horse statues from the Acropolis then. The turks might again use them for cannon practice.
In a related story, the Sun rose in the East today.
They did, and they occupied Greece for a few hundred years. Savages don’t know how to act civilized.
Sounds like the beginning of a slippery slope...
That’s why I always use a rack to prevent the intrusion.
Mmmmmm. Turkey in Greece. Now I’m Hungary.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to buy it?
The EU still has the Greek economy by the short hairs. An action like that can cause the Euroweenies to not restructure Greece’s debt, or make the terms completely unacceptable. Greece is not in a good position to do much of anything.
I think that the Euroweenies would do something if the mohamdan Turks invaded some of the Greek islands, however. I doubt though, that they would do anything militarily against the Turks. Who do you suppose they would call on?
More of Obama’s legacy. And these Greek dorks probably stood on chairs and cheered when he was elected.
Meanwhile, the world wonders
If Russia attacks Turkey from the rear, will Greece help?
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You’re making people hungary
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