Tag Archives: Treaty of Lausanne

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has disputed the Treaty of Lausanne, which set out the modern borders between Greece and Turkey, saying that Ankara will not accept “de facto situations” in the Aegean Sea. Speaking before Turkey’s National Assembly, Cavusoglu said that a number of interconnected problems remain in the …

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A Kurdish member of the Turkish Parliament launched a campaign against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and uses nationalistic and expansionist rhetoric and, of course, the Greek islands. The man accused Erdogan that he allowed Greece to occupy “16 islands in the Aegean Sea” and claimed that “Turkey has sovereign rights …

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has apparently suffered a megalomania attack, fell in delirium and claimed to expand Turkey’s borders to Greece’s Thrace, Thessaloniki, Aegean islands and the whole of Cyprus. But he claimed as well a bit from Bulgaria, Georgia, Syria and a large portion of Iraq. The mad …

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Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan officially announced Ankara’s doubt in the Greek sovereignty on the islands of the Aegean Sea and for one more time he confirmed Turkey’s aspirations and efforts to use the “grey zones” in order to create a fait a compli. Erdogan sharply criticized the Lausanne Treaty …

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