Posted on 07/12/2023 5:44:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Greece and Türkiye agreed on Wednesday (Jul 12) to resume talks and confidence-building measures as they hailed a new "positive climate" in ties after more than a year of tensions between the historic foes.
The two North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies have been at odds for decades over a range of issues including where their continental shelves start and end, energy resources, overflights of the Aegean Sea, and ethnically split Cyprus.
Last year, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan halted bilateral talks in a dispute over airspace violations and after accusing Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of pressuring the United States to block the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey.
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“Turkey”
FIFY
If I were them, I'd change the name to Burma. Myanmar abandoned it, and there's a lot of good will in that name.
Is Turkey going to finally withdraw from Cypress?
If Turkey attacked Russia from the rear, would Greece help?
I don’t know. But why should they?
Turkey 🦃 is a bird
“Leaders of Türkiye and Greece Vow to Repair Ties After Year of Tension”
NICE - need more peace, not more war.
But we don't have to use their name for their country, just as foreigners don't use our name for ours. We don't say Deutschland, Schweiz, Polska, Magyarország, or Hrvatska, and they don't say United States of America.
I think they have already done so because I haven't seeb any döner kebab eateries in Cypress. It seems they withdrew to Cerritos, Anaheim and Buena Park.
Hi.
Most Turks have Greek DNA in them.
Incoming!
5.56mm
A year of tensions? How about 2,500 years of tensions?
I prefer to call Turkey “Eastern Greece”.
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Turkey is the world’s tug-o-war champion.
“I prefer to call Turkey “Eastern Greece”.”
Western Persia.
:)
LOL... how about “Western Kurdistan” or “Western Armenia”?
The USA (and the UK) have been stellar allies when the Greeks fight their own people- far less so when they fight the Turk. Foolishly, Greece has signed on to the USA/ NATO aggression in the Ukraine- when Erdogan turns his full attention to them (after a Western loss that he has played to maximum advantage), the Greeks will have no recourse. Russia, their historic protector, won’t lift a finger (nor should they). Serbia is in a far more precarious situation, but generally the same. We shall see which islands the Greeks lose- Cyprus is probably unlikely but not impossible- its not like the Brits would be able to prevent. The geopolitical changes after the Ukraine debacle are gonna be lit.
If anything, Turkey's support for Ukraine has gotten a lot more attention than Greece's lately.
Turkey and the snake Erdogan have been quite wily (I admire- he is not one of the suicidal NATO leaders, content to a humiliating decline as USA puppet states). They have not backed Ukraine explicitly nor Russia- save for commercial and negotiating benefits. The purported $11-13 B in IMF loans Joey just promised him may open things up, but then again the Swedes are refusing to extradite two Kurd terrorists now. Doubtful the Euros overcome their inherent hatred of the Turk to let them in the EU. That being said, Turkey will emerge much strong post conflict amidst a fractured and defeated NATO. Greece will be easy pickings- at least the disputed islands. Greece, like Serbia, Bulgaria, and (to a lesser extent Romania) are within the historic Russian sphere of influence- their betrayals will not go unheeded, and they will be the first abandoned by a moribund and declining secular West.
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