Turkey, Emboldened by Fresh Entrée in Syria, Taunts Athens Anew Over Fabled Greek Islands
It may soon be up to Washington to defuse tensions between the two members of the North Atlantic Treaty.
Turkey has already said it will not hesitate to intervene in Syria if the country starts to break up — but is that kind of language a precursor to designs on the territory of, in Greece, a fellow member of the North Atlantic Treaty? Judging by the latest diplomatic kerfuffle between Ankara and Athens, which risks escalating into a full-blown feud or worse, this could already be happening.
A rightist ally of President Erdogan, Devlet Bahceli of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party, this week openly questioned Greece’s sovereignty over the islands of the southeastern Aegean. In so doing Mr. Bahceli challenges the provisions of international laws and agreements such as the 1923 Lausanne Treaty.
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