Erdogan; I warn Greece to avoid dreams, acts and statements that will result in regret. Turkey will not relinquish its rights in the Aegean and will not hesitate to use its powers stemming from international agreements.

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1. A dictator warns another country. How creative.

2. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday Greece should stop arming islands with non-military status and should abide by international agreements, in comments likely to fuel a renewal in long-running tensions between the Aegean Sea neighbours.

   Last week he announced Turkey was halting talks with Greece, partly over a dispute with the Greek prime minister, and what Ankara calls airspace violations.

   After a five-year hiatus, the two NATO members last year resumed talks to address differences in the Mediterranean Sea and other bilateral issues. The talks have made little progress and the countries have frequently traded barbs.

   “I warn Greece to avoid dreams, acts and statements that will result in regret. Come to your senses,” he said in a televised speech made as he observed Turkish military exercises near Izmir on the coast of western Turkey.

   “Turkey will not renounce its rights in the Aegean and will not back down from using rights that are established by international agreements when it comes to arming islands.”

   The countries have long been at odds over issues such as maritime boundaries, overlapping claims over their continental shelves, airspace, migrants and ethnically split Cyprus.

3. Things are getting serious.

4. And one day Constantinople will be Greek again

5. Putin n.2 shut up please.

6. Building a story just like Putin, to have an excuse to invade. Hopefully we and our European allies will be ready for that.

7. Greece and Turkey words used in a post again like magic words in r/europe . Let’s see how many people will read the source and make a comment. And how many will just spit the hatred without reading.

8. He said also this “The USA, whom Greece trusts very much, should know that just as it could not support Ukraine, it will not support them either.”

9. Woof woof

10. How about Erdogan removes the illegal occupation of north Cyprus and allows the owners of the land he’s stolen back on their property and removes the wall in the last remaining divided capital city in the world before he starts telling other countries what to do

11. I take it that the next elections are coming soon?

12. A dictator trying to save himself from his own countrymen by creating an external enemy and pushing his country into a war he cannot win. Never heard that one before.

    He should pull a Honecker instead, take as much stolen wealth as he can and go chill in Chile.

13. He saw Europe’s response in Russia’s invasion, he saw how incompetent the European Union is in the matters of defence, don’t be shocked if he tries something similar to what Putin did.

14. he is planning a war isnt he

15. Tell me you’ve destroyed your countries economy and need an scapegoat without telling me you’ve detroyed your countries economy and need an scapegoat.

16. The almost non-stop entertainment coming out of the Russian zoo is getting some serious competition from the Turkish one.

17. Greece is in NATO, and unlike Russia, Turkey doesn’t have nuclear weapons to make NATO countries fear escalation. Erdogan surely knows this, which is why this has to be just him making up nonsense to “look strong” to potential voters.

    But with Russia invading Ukraine after a long period of Russia having similar language about Ukraine and other neighbours of Russia, Turkey ought to understand that this sort of rhetoric is now harder to dismiss as just meaningless grandstanding for domestic audiences.

18. >Turkey will not renounce its rights in the Aegean and will not back down from using rights that are established by international agreements when it comes to arming islands.

    **But we will deny you of your the rights in the Aegean that are established by international law.**