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FILE- Turkey s Defense Minister Hulusi Akar addresses a meeting of his country s ambassadors, in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. (Turkish Defence Ministry via AP, Pool) 12/31/2020 TNH Staff
Although Greece has repeatedly rejected the demand, Turkey – this time through Defense Minister Hulusi Akar - insisted again Greece take troops off islands in the Eastern Aegean near Turkey s coast.
Akar said that Greece is violating the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne by militarizing 16 islands, citing a 97-year-old agreement that Turkey doesn t recognize and wants rewritten, seeking the return of some islands ceded to Greece.
Speaking to the A Haber TV network, Akar said Greece is positioning itself for trouble and that it has only six nautical miles of territorial waters and 10 nautical miles of airspace, both regularly violated by Turkish fighter jets and warships.