Turkish Foreign Minister claims Greek islands are Turkish

[Kubra]

like of the disparate ideologies of the anglophonic internet world dislike of erdogan is pretty much universal

He appears to be quite popular among certain Arabs and quite a lot of Somalis.

anglophonic internet

[Kravanica]

As a Zionist I can quite confidently say they don't.

You would say that wouldn't you?

Yep.

[Genivaria]

Erdogan now railing against Israel.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/e ... 54348.html

[Kravanica]

Erdogan now railing against Israel.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/e ... 54348.html

I say all Greeks unite to protect take back Constantinople as a common cause.

[Uxupox]

Erdogan now railing against Israel.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/e ... 54348.html

I say all Greeks unite to protect take back Constantinople as a common cause.

Wouldn't go wrong nope.

[Rio Cana]

I say all Greeks unite to protect take back Constantinople as a common cause.

Wouldn't go wrong nope.

The Greeks should have just concentrated there forces on Eastern Thrace and if possible taken control of the South shore of the sea of Marmara. The straits and the city of Istanbul were among the most strategic things in that part of the world.

[Novus America]

I say all Greeks unite to protect take back Constantinople as a common cause.

Wouldn't go wrong nope.

Well they could have won had they just defended their new territory instead of charging off towards Ankara with no logistics and support. I mean the Greeks were just Napoleon in Russia level stupid there.

[The Two Jerseys]

Anyone want to chip in for the gift basket I'm sending to Erdogan?

It's going to include:

• A jar of Kalamata olives
• A bottle of ouzo
• A book of Lord Byron's poetry
• Never on Sunday
  My Big Fat Greek Wedding
  The Guns of Navarone
  Zorba the Greek
  The 300 Spartans
  300
  Alexander the Great
  Alexander
  Lawrence of Arabia
  40,000 Horsemen
  The Lighthorsemen
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All to be delivered in a wooden horse.

[FelrikTheDeleted]

Anyone want to chip in for the gift basket I'm sending to Erdogan?

It's going to include:

• A jar of Kalamata olives
• A bottle of ouzo
• A book of Lord Byron's poetry
• Never on Sunday
  My Big Fat Greek Wedding
  The Guns of Navarone
  Zorba the Greek
  The 300 Spartans
  300
  Alexander the Great
  Alexander
  Lawrence of Arabia
  40,000 Horsemen
  The Lighthorsemen
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All to be delivered in a wooden horse.

It will be glorious.

[Vijulia]

Anyone want to chip in for the gift basket I'm sending to Erdogan?

It's going to include:

• A jar of Kalamata olives
• A bottle of ouzo
• A book of Lord Byron's poetry
• Never on Sunday
  My Big Fat Greek Wedding
  The Guns of Navarone
  Zorba the Greek
  The 300 Spartans
  300
  Alexander the Great
  Alexander
  Lawrence of Arabia
  40,000 Horsemen
  The Lighthorsemen
• (Image)
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All to be delivered in a wooden horse.

I think some gyros too would be nice. Love that tzatziki sauce...

[Jochizyd Republic]

Erdogan now railing against Israel.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/e ... 54348.html

A broken clock is right once a day and all that.

[Baltenstein]

Anyone want to chip in for the gift basket I'm sending to Erdogan?

It's going to include:

• A jar of Kalamata olives
• A bottle of ouzo
• A book of Lord Byron's poetry
• Never on Sunday
  My Big Fat Greek Wedding
  The Guns of Navarone
  Zorba the Greek
  The 300 Spartans
  300
  Alexander the Great
  Alexander
  Lawrence of Arabia
  40,000 Horsemen
  The Lighthorsemen
• (Image)
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All to be delivered in a wooden horse.

- The complete Jan Böhmermann Show DVD collection
- A book on Armenian history in the 20th century
- A portrait of Öcalan

[Risottia]

The Treaty doesn't make a special rule about the aggressor being a NATO member. Every other NATO member would be called to help Greece in the way it sees fit.

Considering how Erdogan is cozying up to Putin, I'd take for granted that at the very least the Baltics, and Poland would be more than willing to kick some Turkish arse.
Not to mention that Italy, France, and Germany would be happy if there wasn't no Erdogan threatening them with his control over the immigration floodgates.

Highly unlikely that there is going to be a war between them anyway. These disputes have been going on for decades now.

I know, right? But allow me to hope that Erdogan is so stupid to get himself bombed out of his palace.

[Risottia]

Anyone want to chip in for the gift basket I'm sending to Erdogan?

It's going to include:

• A jar of Kalamata olives
• A bottle of ouzo
• A book of Lord Byron's poetry
• Never on Sunday
  My Big Fat Greek Wedding
  The Guns of Navarone
  Zorba the Greek
  The 300 Spartans
  300
  Alexander the Great
  Alexander
  Lawrence of Arabia
  40,000 Horsemen
  The Lighthorsemen
• (Image)
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All to be delivered in a wooden horse.

- The complete Jan Böhmermann Show DVD collection
- A book on Armenian history in the 20th century
- A portrait of Öcalan

- A replica of an Etrich Taube in Royal Italian Army markings.
- A replica of a XVI century Venetian galeazza.

[The Canadian North-West]

Anyone want to chip in for the gift basket I'm sending to Erdogan?

It's going to include:

• A jar of Kalamata olives
• A bottle of ouzo
• A book of Lord Byron's poetry
• Never on Sunday
  My Big Fat Greek Wedding
  The Guns of Navarone
  Zorba the Greek
  The 300 Spartans
  300
  Alexander the Great
  Alexander
  Lawrence of Arabia
  40,000 Horsemen
  The Lighthorsemen
• (Image)
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All to be delivered in a wooden horse.

An MP3 download of Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

[The Two Jerseys]

Anyone want to chip in for the gift basket I'm sending to Erdogan?

It's going to include:

• A jar of Kalamata olives
• A bottle of ouzo
• A book of Lord Byron's poetry
• Never on Sunday
  My Big Fat Greek Wedding
  The Guns of Navarone
  Zorba the Greek
  The 300 Spartans
  300
  Alexander the Great
  Alexander
  Lawrence of Arabia
  40,000 Horsemen
  The Lighthorsemen
• (Image)
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All to be delivered in a wooden horse.

An MP3 download of Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

How the hell did I forget that?

I must be getting old...

[Farnhamia]

An MP3 download of Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

How the hell did I forget that?

I must be getting old...

But ... wouldn't he just say, "Yeah, that's right, not Constantinople"?

[Geilinor]

Erdogan now railing against Israel.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/e ... 54348.html

A broken clock is right once a day and all that.

safeguarding the Al-Aqsa Mosque should not be left to children, armed with nothing but stones.

This could be interpreted as calling for armed attack.

[Shofercia]

Unfortunately, the never-ending stream of worrying news from Turkey continues. Stepping in line with president Erdogan's latest remarks that the Lausanne treaty consisted of "unfair conditions that were imposed upon Turkey" that "are not going to last forever" (Seen here), Turkish foreign minister Cavusoglu has decided to up the ante and make territorial demands on the Greek Islands of Imia:

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Wednesday referred to the eastern Aegean Imia islets as “Turkish soil.”

Cavusoglu was responding in writing to a question tabled by a Turkish MP regarding the status of islands and islets in the Aegean.

“As long as the AKP is in power there will be no change in the legal and de facto status of islands in the Aegean,” noted Cavusoglu in his statement.

Cavusoglu’s comments followed comments made by the leader of the Turkish Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kilicdaroglu in which he accused Greece of occupying 18 islands in the Aegean.

Reacting to Cavusoglu's statement, the Greek foreign ministry issued its own statement on Thursday.

"Greece’s sovereignty over its islands in the Aegean, including Imia, is undisputable and established by international law,” the ministry said, adding that "Irresponsible references to the contrary are provocative," given that the legal status of Aegean islands and islets was determined by a series of international agreements signed last century.

In 1996, Greece and Turkey came close to war over the uninhabited outcrop.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/214212/arti ... k-reaction

State of Emergency, constant sabre-rattling against the West, increasing repression of all internal opposition, establishment of a strong-man cult of personality, glorification of the imperial past, now open territorial demands against smaller neighbor countries: the Erdogan government has started to mimic the antiques of Nazi Germany so closely that I'm really starting to wonder if Erdogan has a copy of "Mein Kampf" somewhere on his bedside table.

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras meanwhile has more important things to do, like worshipping Fidel Castro's corpse in Havana and holding great speeches about the evils of Capitalism or whatever.

It is my personal opinion that - against an increasingly hostile and revanchist Turkey - the EU must cooperate more closely on matters of border security and immigration management and look for ways that reduce the dependency on Erdogan's Turkey on that particular matter in any way possible. The integrity of EU memberstates borders must be guaranteed in the Aegean as much as in the Baltics/Eastern Europe or elsewhere, especially with the possible prospect that a Trump presidency will considerably reduce American hard power presence in Europe.

What say ye NSG?

Is there a country, one of decent size and located in Europe, that Erdogan hasn't pissed off yet?

[Uxupox]

Unfortunately, the never-ending stream of worrying news from Turkey continues. Stepping in line with president Erdogan's latest remarks that the Lausanne treaty consisted of "unfair conditions that were imposed upon Turkey" that "are not going to last forever" (Seen here), Turkish foreign minister Cavusoglu has decided to up the ante and make territorial demands on the Greek Islands of Imia:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/214212/article/ekathimerini/news/imia-are-turkish-soil-says-turkish-fm-prompting-greek-reaction

State of Emergency, constant sabre-rattling against the West, increasing repression of all internal opposition, establishment of a strong-man cult of personality, glorification of the imperial past, now open territorial demands against smaller neighbor countries: the Erdogan government has started to mimic the antiques of Nazi Germany so closely that I'm really starting to wonder if Erdogan has a copy of "Mein Kampf" somewhere on his bedside table.

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras meanwhile has more important things to do, like worshipping Fidel Castro's corpse in Havana and holding great speeches about the evils of Capitalism or whatever.

It is my personal opinion that - against an increasingly hostile and revanchist Turkey - the EU must cooperate more closely on matters of border security and immigration management and look for ways that reduce the dependency on Erdogan's Turkey on that particular matter in any way possible. The integrity of EU memberstates borders must be guaranteed in the Aegean as much as in the Baltics/Eastern Europe or elsewhere, especially with the possible prospect that a Trump presidency will considerably reduce American hard power presence in Europe.

What say ye NSG?

Is there a country, one of decent size and located in Europe, that Erdogan hasn't pissed off yet?

Erdogan is true sultan master of Western Europe.

[The Portland Territory]

What's funny is that I'm pretty sure nearly half of Turkey's land, they own illegally. They broke the Treaty of Sevres. Took Armenian, Greek, Kurdish, British, French, and even Georgian lands.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

I think I read about this in Honor of the Regiment. Bolos soon?

[Rio Cana]

like of the disparate ideologies of the anglophonic internet world dislike of erdogan is pretty much universal

He appears to be quite popular among certain Arabs and quite a lot of Somalis.

The Syrian government does not like him at all. Iran, also Iran. Armenia. The Republic of Nagorno Karabakh. Kurds. Greece. Not sure about Bulgaria. However, Azerbaijan loves them. Turkey is not Shia but Azerbaijan is Shia but since they are also Turkic culture they love Turkey.

[Genivaria]

What's funny is that I'm pretty sure nearly half of Turkey's land, they own illegally. They broke the Treaty of Sevres. Took Armenian, Greek, Kurdish, British, French, and even Georgian lands.

Technically that was a treaty made with the Ottoman's and you know how easy it is for one government to disavow previous governments as illegitimate.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

Anyone want to chip in for the gift basket I'm sending to Erdogan?

It's going to include:

• A jar of Kalamata olives
• A bottle of ouzo
• A book of Lord Byron's poetry
• Never on Sunday
  My Big Fat Greek Wedding
  The Guns of Navarone
  Zorba the Greek
  The 300 Spartans
  300
  Alexander the Great
  Alexander
  Lawrence of Arabia
  40,000 Horsemen
  The Lighthorsemen
• (Image)
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All to be delivered in a wooden horse.

The painting of the Cossacks writing to the Sultan.

A bag of roaches.

All the Galaxy S7 phones recalled.

The Young Turks.

The old Turks too.