Surprise Turkish Claim to Major Greek Island Draws State Department Rebuke
‘Take a good look at this map. Crete, Rhodes, Lesbos, Chios, Samos all consumed by Turkey,’ the Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, tweeted.

In what could be called the Asia Minor social media sensation that went major, an image of a large, framed map that depicts several major Greek islands — including the biggest one, Crete — as belonging to Turkey is making the rounds online. The revisionist map, apparently a present to the head of a nationalist party allied with Turkey’s president, Tayyip Erdogan, from a separate ultranationalist group, prompted an outcry from the Greek prime minister.
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