Lying off the northeastern tip of Japan, the island chain were seized by Soviet troops in the last days of World War II
islands
He called again on the de-militarisation of 16 Greek islands
They present maps with Greek islands saying that Greece "illegally" owns them
Greece speaks of Turkish escalation - Provocative statements by Turkish journalists & analysts in the same line that Ankara has methodically drawn
Is he building Turkey's alibi for an attack against the Greek islands?
"The sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries must be respected and protected"
"Greece rejects the Turkish unilateral objections for the delimitation of the continental shelf in the Eastern Mediterranean"
Soscu is an opposition Kemalist newspaper, with incendiary articles against Greece
Earlier, 3 pairs of Turkish F-16s violated the Greek national airspace in the northeastern Aegean region.
Turkish F-16s were identified and intercepted by Greek fighter jets on readiness