{"id":31743,"date":"2018-03-01T06:51:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T11:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31743"},"modified":"2018-03-01T06:51:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T11:51:26","slug":"why-turkey-wants-to-invade-the-greek-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31743","title":{"rendered":"Why Turkey Wants to Invade the Greek Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"print_content\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/11954\/turkey-threats-greek-islands\">Why Turkey Wants to Invade the Greek Islands<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"print_content_3\">\n<div>\n<ul class=\"content_preface_bullets\">\n<li>Turkish propagandists also have been twisting facts to try to portray Greece as the aggressor.<\/li>\n<li>Although Turkey knows that the islands are legally and historically Greek, Turkish authorities want to occupy and Turkify them, presumably to further the campaign of annihilating the Greeks, as they did in Anatolia from 1914 to 1923 and after.<\/li>\n<li>Any attack against Greece should be treated as an attack against the West.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article_body itemprop_articlebody\">\n<p>There is one issue on which Turkey&#8217;s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its main opposition, the Republican People&#8217;s Party (CHP), are in complete agreement: The conviction that the Greek islands are occupied Turkish territory and must be reconquered. So strong is this determination that the leaders of both parties have openly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/11907\/turkey-greece-invasion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">threatened to invade<\/a> the Aegean.<\/p>\n<p>The only conflict on this issue between the two parties is in competing to prove which is more powerful and patriotic, and which possesses the courage to carry out the threat against Greece. While the CHP is accusing President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan&#8217;s AKP party of enabling Greece to occupy Turkish lands, the AKP is attacking the CHP, Turkey&#8217;s founding party, for allowing Greece to take the islands through the 1924 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Treaty_of_Lausanne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Treaty of Lausanne<\/a>, the 1932 Turkish-Italian Agreements, and the 1947 Paris Treaty, which recognized the islands of the Aegean as Greek territory.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haberler.com\/erdogan-bagirsan-sesinin-duyulacagi-adalari-8812479-haberi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erdo\u011fan said<\/a> that Turkey &#8220;gave away&#8221; the islands that &#8220;used to be ours&#8221; and are &#8220;within shouting distance.&#8221; &#8220;There are still our mosques, our shrines there,&#8221; he said, referring to the Ottoman occupation of the islands.<\/p>\n<p>Two months earlier, at the &#8220;Conference on Turkey&#8217;s New Security Concept,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahaber.com.tr\/gundem\/2016\/11\/22\/cumhurbaskani-erdogan-lozan-kutsal-bir-metin-asla-degildir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erdo\u011fan declared<\/a>: &#8220;Lausanne&#8230; has never been a sacred text. Of course, we will discuss it and struggle to have a better one.&#8221; Subsequently, pro-government media outlets published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabah.com.tr\/fotohaber\/gundem\/iste-erdoganin-lozanla-verdik-dedigi-adalar\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">maps and photos<\/a> of the islands in the Aegean, calling them the territory that &#8220;Erdo\u011fan says we gave away at Lausanne.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Turkey Wants to Invade the Greek Islands Turkish propagandists also have been twisting facts to try to portray Greece as the aggressor. Although Turkey knows that the islands are legally and historically Greek, Turkish authorities want to occupy and Turkify them, presumably to further the campaign of annihilating the Greeks, as they did in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18487,1167,19012,1908,818,18692],"class_list":["post-31743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-gatestone-instiitute","tag-greece","tag-greek-islands","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-turkey","tag-uzay-bulut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31745,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31743\/revisions\/31745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}