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Turkey calls on Greece to demilitarize Aegean islands

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A detailed account of the dispute. It is exceedingly complex due to the geography of the region, the rules of UNCLOS and Greek fears stoked by Turkey's illegal invasion of Cyprus.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/aegean.htm

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Looks like Teflon-Turkey can do whatever they want to and remain in NATO. Unbelievable.

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@Charlie, there is currently no provision in the NATO Charter to expel a member state. Many if not most EU nations greatly restrict technology sales to Turkey and many including the US have not been selling Turkey new weapons. All US weapons sales to Turkey have been blocked by the US Senate for the past four or five years. Mr. Erdogan must stand for re-election no later than next year, June I think without looking the exact date. The Turkish economy is a mess and there is a great deal of dissatisfaction with how Mr. Erdogan governs. I think most of the EU, NATO and the US are holding their breath, and their noses, until that election. Depending on the results some hard choices may have to be made afterwards. A problem is that so far the likely opposition ( if they are not first arrested ) are possibly more anti-NATO and anti-western than Mr. Erdogan's party. In Turkey the 2016 coup attempt is widely blamed not just on the Gulenists but on NATO too and that seems to cross party lines. The sole Kurdish political party in their parliament openly says NATO is a terrorist organization.. Push is going to come to shove sooner or later.

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