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| Deputy PM: Turkey aware of its rights in Aegean Sea |
| 2017-02-28 |
| [AA.TR] Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday he hoped recent controversial comments from Greece’s defense minister about a number of Aegean Sea islets were just a personal, not official, position. Speaking at a news conference after a cabinet meeting in Ankara, Kurtulmus noted Greece was being run by a coalition government and he hoped the defense minister’s last comments on the Kardak islets did not reflect the view of the government in Athens. "I would like to think that the Greece defense minister just expressed his own view," he said. Panos Kammenos -- founder of the Independent Greeks junior coalition party -- claimed last Friday ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... was trying "to escalate the crisis" over the Kardak islets, warning against setting foot on them and saying Greek forces were ready for "any contingency". |
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