Turkish President He made the accusations against Gracia in a speech on Saturday in the northern province of Samsun.
Your (Greece – ed.) presence in the islands does not limit us. When the hour comes, we will do what is necessary. Look at the story, if you go any further the price will be high
– Erdogan said, quoted by the agency Reuters. The Turkish president referred to the events at Izmir in 1922 when Greek forces lost to Turkish troops. This was the end of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922.
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Erdogan blamed Greece
Ankara recently accused Athens of arming the militarized Aegean islands. Greece categorically denied the allegations. However, for the first time, there were words about the “occupation” of this territory.
Turkey The Aegean islands were ceded to Greece under the 1923 and 1947 treaties, provided they did not arm. According to Ankara, this happened as early as 1960. Turkish leader Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu has repeatedly said that if Athens continues to arm, Turkey will begin to question Greek sovereignty over the islands.
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– This is the Greek Foreign Ministry’s response to Erdogan’s statement on Saturday. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mikotakis insisted that Turkey’s position challenging Greece’s sovereignty over the islands was “absurd”.
Turkey and Greece have disputes over maritime territories and rights to raw materials, airspace security and the status of certain islands in the Aegean Sea. Ankara believes that the border between the states should only include the mainland, not the Greek islands. This is not the case, which is why the Turks accuse Greece of trying to deprive Greece of the profits from the exploitation of raw materials located in the Aegean and the Mediterranean.
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