{"id":1712,"date":"2017-03-10T13:44:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T13:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2017-03-10T13:46:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T13:46:53","slug":"turkish-newspaper-claims-that-greeces-president-visited-a-turkish-island-occupied-by-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/03\/10\/turkish-newspaper-claims-that-greeces-president-visited-a-turkish-island-occupied-by-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"TURKISH NEWSPAPER CLAIMS THAT GREECE\u2019S PRESIDENT VISITED A \u201cTURKISH ISLAND OCCUPIED BY GREECE\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced : Keep Talking Greece<\/p>\n

Turkey continues to escalate tension in the Aegean Sea. Ankara is determined to challenge Greece\u2019s sovereignty either through official statements or through its media.<\/p>\n

Daily newspaper S\u00f6zc\u00fc published its Friday front page claiming that Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos visited a \u2026Turkish island that is occupied by Greeks.\u00a0 The President visited the island of Pserimos on Tuesday 7th<\/sup> of February to celebrate the Independence of Dodecanese part of it is the island of Pserimos. The newspaper uses the Turkish name Keci for the island of Pserimos.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Greek President went to the occupied island. Greece has taken in the past 18 islands from us and they stage a show,\u201d S\u00f6zc\u00fc writes and adds that Pserimos (Keci) is opposite of Bodrum and presents a map claiming that the Greeks flag on the island is illegal.<\/p>\n

The island of Pserimos (Greek: \u03a8\u03ad\u03c1\u03b9\u03bc\u03bf\u03c2 \u0394\u03c9\u03b4\u03b5\u03ba\u03b1\u03bd\u03ae\u03c3\u03bf\u03c5) is a small Greek island in the Dodecanese islands chain, lying between Kalymnos and Kos opposite from the coast of Turkey. The island is part of the municipality of K\u00e1lymnos, and has a population of 80 inhabitants according to the 2011 Greek population census.<\/p>\n

The map graphically presents the Turkish claim that Turkey has a sovereign right over all islands of the Aegean Sea that are within a distance of 6 nautical miles from the Turkish coast although the Treaty of Lausanne (24 July 1923), which settled the issues of sovereignty in the region after the end of the WW I and the Greek-Turkish war (1919-1922), clearly mentions that only the islands of Imvros, Tenedos, Rabbit islands, as well as, the islands situated at less than three miles from the Asiatic coast, remain under Turkey\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n

S\u00f6zc\u00fc newspaper belongs to the Kemalist opposition that last autumn started to accuse Erdogan\u2019s government of having handed over to Greece \u201c16 Turkish islands.\u201d In the daily\u2019s front page, the number of islands has risen to 18 islands.<\/p>\n

Citing retired colonel \u00dcmit Yal\u0131m, a former Secretary General at the Ministry of National Defense, the daily writes about what it calls \u201cthe scandal\u201d:<\/p>\n

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\u201cAccording to the Treaty of Lausanne, Yal\u0131m said, a total of 18 Turkish islands and 1 Turkish rock [probably \u2018islet\u2019] which are under Greek \u201coccupation\u201d were under the sovereignty of Turkey. The Greek President, ministers and commander-in-chief went to Presimos island and the scandal was disclosed when Greek media covered the visit. It is understood that the task of the Turkish Armed Forces was prevented,\u201d retired colonel Yalim said.<\/p>\n

While in Pserimos, Greek President Pavlopoulos sent a message of friendship and good neighborliness to Turkey and urged it to follow the European path. \u201cAt the same time, however, we are sending the message that we are here to defend respecting and implementing the international and the European law as a whole,\u201d Pavlopoulos said and underlined \u201cEspecially the Treaty of Lausanne, the sovereignty, the borders and, of course, the territorial integrity of Greece, which is at the same time the borders, the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of the European Union.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ankara\u2019s comment on Pavlopoulos speech came from the Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu who said that the Greek President \u201cprovokes\u201d and \u201cdoes not know the basics of the international law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pavlopoulos replied \u201cIf you do not understand we can help you\u2026\u201d, while the Greek Foreign Ministry issued a statement telling Turkey \u201cunderstanding the international law means that you don\u2019t violate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Turkish FM Cavusoglu said later on Friday that the \u201cAegean is a national issue\u201d and revealed that the after the presidential referendum, the government will invite the opposition party leaders in order to draw a united stance on the issue.<\/p>\n

Ankara set out to increase tension in the Aegean Sea after Greece\u2019s Supreme Court rejected its request to extradite 8 Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece one day after the failed coup in July 2016.<\/p>\n

The Turkish Constitutional Referendum to expand the powers of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scheduled for April 16th 2017. As \u201cnational causes\u201d have always had a great impact on the Turkish electorate, tension is expected to escalate until the referendum is over.<\/p>\n

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