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Greece warns Turkey: “If they make the slightest move, we will crush them”
Voice of Europe ^ | 12/21/18

Posted on 12/21/2018 3:52:55 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Stern warnings from Greece to Turkey. Stern words in return, as well. Defence Minister Panos Kammenos warned that Ankara would pay for violating Greek airspace by Turkish jets over the Aegean.

The minister said whilst visiting a military outpost on the Aegean island of Leros, “If they make the slightest move, we will crush them,” adding that Athens wants peace and harmony but it won’t “concede a single centimetre” of its land.

His words seem aligned with Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis, chief of the Hellenic General Staff, who said:

“If the Turks land on a rocky islet, we will raze it to the ground. That is a red line that is espoused by the government,” suggesting a military confrontation with Turkey is a possibility, but adds “along with the US and the European Union, we want to ensure that the Turks do not reach that point.”

Turkey’s Gen. Hulusi Akar, chief of its General Staff fired back that they will not allow “any fait accompli in the Aegean and the Mediterranean”. Turkey will not back down “from the rights of our country and our people,” he added.

There have been clashes the past few years between the two NATO allies countries’ warships, as well as mid-air encounters of Turkish and Greek jets, with this current scuffle over a pair of Turkish F-16s making a fly over on Thursday of the island Kastelorizo in the eastern Aegean. Only minutes before a helicopter with Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos travelled the area on the way to Athens.

The dispute between Greece and Turkey continues over the Aegean as dozens of small islets in the sea make determination of the boundaries of the maritime border especially difficult. Despite efforts to come to agreement, the two countries have so far had no success.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: erdogan; europeanunion; greece; kurdistan; nato; receptayyiperdogan; turkey
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To: Calif Conservative

True!
But they seem to have the Greek’s number as of late.
See Cyprus 14–16 August 1974!


21 posted on 12/21/2018 4:55:10 PM PST by Reily
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To: Reily

Actually many Greeks fought valiantly throughout periods of the Ottoman Empire to free themselves from their Islamic masters. There were many slaughters of Greeks fighting that tyranny easily found online.


22 posted on 12/21/2018 4:57:11 PM PST by Lent
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

How can they crush them if they retire at 50 yrs old and only work 30 hrs per week?


23 posted on 12/21/2018 5:07:56 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Praying for PDJT is action...God hasn't quit or gone anywhere...it's up to us to not fire God.)
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To: Lent

Yes I know that. I am a huge fan of the Byzantines. It’s unfortunate the Christian West couldn’t get it act together and keep the Islamic pestilence out.


24 posted on 12/21/2018 5:12:31 PM PST by Reily
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

That uozo is a weapon of mass destruction...


25 posted on 12/21/2018 5:12:41 PM PST by OrangeHoof (CNN - the most busted name in news.)
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To: Reily

True enough.


26 posted on 12/21/2018 5:14:16 PM PST by Lent
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To: All

Well it’s been awhile since the Greeks and Turks went at it. War never changes.


27 posted on 12/21/2018 5:26:27 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
This gets stirred up enough and we will see the Kurds get involved and most likely the Armenians. Hell, most likely the whole dam Balkan area.
28 posted on 12/21/2018 5:39:27 PM PST by crz
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To: CincyRichieRich

Add in the Greek ‘island of the blind’? (More like ‘island of welfare cheats’)
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2012/0430/Greek-island-of-the-blind-More-like-island-of-welfare-cheats

“Blind” taxi drivers cheerfully ferry tourists around the holiday destination, recreational hunters with purported sight problems regularly take to the hills in pursuit of wild birds and rabbits, and “visually impaired” shopkeepers, taverna owners, and farmers with vineyards and olive groves go about their daily business.


29 posted on 12/21/2018 6:01:46 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: Lent; DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Time for another “OXI!”

“O Champion dread, who cannot be put to confusion, despise not our petitions, O Good and All-praised Theotokos; establish the way of the Orthodox; save those who have been called upon to govern us, leading us to that victory which is from heaven, for thou art she who gavest birth to God, and alone art blessed.”


30 posted on 12/21/2018 8:13:59 PM PST by lightman (Obama's legacy in 13 letters: BLM, ISIS, & ANTIFA. New axis of evil.)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Yet they let tens of thousands of rapeugees in. Give me a break Greece. You are a stupid as The rest of Europe.


31 posted on 12/21/2018 9:08:11 PM PST by inchworm
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To: Pearls Before Swine

allowing Turkey in to NATO was one big blunder.


32 posted on 12/22/2018 4:29:04 AM PST by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' baby, Molon Labe)
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To: ZULU

I expect the Turkish military to eventually Anwar Sadat him.
When the brass realize he is harming them and the country.


33 posted on 12/22/2018 4:31:34 AM PST by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' baby, Molon Labe)
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To: ssaftler

“There has to be at least cooking joke in this..”

About 50 years ago we had autograph books for schoolmates to sign. A popular wish was:

Yours, till Russia serves Turkey in Greece to the Hungary USA!


34 posted on 12/22/2018 6:44:07 AM PST by ProudVet97
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To: rrrod

Yes. They are pigs. Long love Greece and free Hagia Sophia.


35 posted on 12/22/2018 11:13:28 AM PST by ZULU (Jeff Sessions should be tried for sedition.)
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To: Joe Boucher

Sooner the better
But I think his staged “Coup Attempt” allowed him to purge any potential opponents and replace them with his stooges.


36 posted on 12/22/2018 11:18:50 AM PST by ZULU (Jeff Sessions should be tried for sedition.)
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