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Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias did not accept that his country was threatened by a missile attack from Turkiye. Both of these countries are members of NATO, but continue to be at war. Photo/REUTERS/Costas Baltas
The two countries are both members of NATO, but have been at war for decades.
“It is unacceptable and universally condemned that the threat of a missile attack against Greece was made by an allied country, a member of NATO,” Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on Monday, arriving in Brussels for a meeting of foreign ministers. of European Union.
“North Korea’s position cannot and must not join the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO),” Dendias continued, equating Turkiye’s behavior to North Korea, as quoted apTuesday (13/12/2022).
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Earlier, Erdogan told a town hall meeting with youth in Samsun on Saturday that Turkiye had started manufacturing its own short-range ballistic missile called Tayfun, which, he said, “frightens the Greeks”.
“(Greeks) said ‘It could hit Athens,’ said Erdogan, whose comments were televised Sunday night.
“Of course. If you don’t stay calm, if you try to buy goods from the US and elsewhere (to arm) the (Aegean) islands, a country like Turkiye… must do something.”
Relations between NATO’s neighbor and ally have long been tense, with the two sides divided over a number of issues, including territorial claims in the Aegean Sea and energy exploration rights in the eastern Mediterranean.
They have been on the brink of war three times in the last half century.
