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Erdogan’s landmark Greece visit gets off to rocky start
[DAWN] Greece and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 on Thursday agreed to work on confidence-boosting measures after a rocky start to a landmark two-day state visit to Athens by Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
.Erdogan, making the first visit to Greece by a Ottoman Turkish head of state in 65 years, had earlier angered his hosts with talk of revising borders and complaints about Greece’s treatment of its Moslem minority.
Contrariwise, Turkey does not allow the remaining Greek Orthodox Christians within its borders to import priests and bishops from outside the country, nor to maintain a seminary for them within it, but that is as it should be.
"We agreed to resume talks on confidence-building and security measures," Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said at a news conference after a long meeting with Erdogan.

The longtime Ottoman Turkish leader had said Athens was neglecting the minority with Ottoman Turkish origins living in northern Greece.

Erdogan also accused the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
 of ignoring promises of financial support given last year in return for Turkey’s help in stemming refugee flows to Europe.

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, one of the country’s foremost law experts, said Athens had no intention of revising the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, a defining document in Greek-Ottoman Turkish relations, as Erdogan has repeatedly suggested. "This treaty is non-negotiable for us... it requires no revision nor update," he said.

Separately, Tsipras joked that another nine countries would have to be chased down to revise the treaty, including Japan.

But Erdogan insisted that agreements can be "updated" and claimed that Greece was failing to adhere to the treaty in respect to the Moslem minority.

Contrary to the treaty, Athens appoints religious jurists known as muftis instead of allowing the local community to do so, Erdogan said. "Protecting the rights of our fellow ethnic (Turks) is a top priority for us," he said.


Posted by: Fred 2017-12-09
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