Hey Buddy!
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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Who do you suppose they would call on?
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A good typist to write the strongly worded warning?
Well Greece and Turkey haven’t cleared the air in a long time. Maybe its time.
Who says history doesn’t repeat itself?
The Kurds?
I bet Turkey doesn’t stay very long.
Sounds like a bad cooking show.
Greece would just probably invoke NATO article V.
Seems like a good time to arm Greece with nukes.
In parts of Greece back in the 60’s the girls in school were taught how to use firearms in case the Turks decided to invade again. Everyone was to be prepared to resist. Probably a practice worth resuming.
Turks..KTA
If Turkey wants Greece, then throw Turkey into a deep fat frier.
And the Turks are part of NATO, why again?
Thanks blam. I think this has been in the air for a while; not long ago, I idled away some time looking at for-sale island properties in the Aegean. One unbuilt (it appears to be used for grazing) round little island (40 acres I think it was) was for sale, and was quite near Turkey. But lots of things are, Rhodes for example. Best guess is, those opposition party leaders will start to come up dead, and Erdogan will blame the Greeks, but will himself have been responsible for it.
Turkish Helicopter Violates Greek Airspace Over Imia [Nov '17]
Is this what Curly meant when he said he was going to use Turkey to wipe up Greece?
Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck.
meanwhile, on Kinaros, up at the frontier with Turkey:
70-Year-Old Greek Widow Battles Bureaucrats
By Philip Chrysopoulos
Feb 17, 2018
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/02/17/70-year-old-greek-widow-battles-bureaucrats/
maps:
http://www.cruiserswiki.org/images/e/ec/Greece_Kinaros_S.jpg
http://www.mapmistress.com/kinaros-levitha-mavra.html
https://www.sy-thetis.org/Thetis2002/ToLeros/ToLeros.html
Lol!
And after all that work, he’s still Hungry!
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