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Re:War Between Greece and Turkey Is Now a Real Possibility by nanis on Saturday July 25, 2020 @07:35AM (#23948433)
This is such a lazy headline and article. For more than 1,000 years, war between Turks and Greeks has been a real possibility. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Greece and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seljuk_Empire

My objective is not to defend one side or the other. The article is lazy and shallow. When I read this:

> if Turkey pushes forward with its plans to survey for has in Greece’s exclusive economic zone.

I ask "what is this exclusive economic zone?"

The answer is

https://www.marineregions.org/gazetteer.php?p=details&id=567...

The idea of extending Greek waters all the way to the shores of Anatolia is not new https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0308597X90...

This is an issue that is independent of who is running Turkey. There is no conceivable scenario in which 90% of the population of Turkey would not be against being essentially land-locked by Greece, Israel, and Egypt.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120119043637/http://world.gree...

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1706686/middle-east

I do think, without regard to country, having 200 mile EEZs in an enclosed sea is a disaster both for nature and stability in the region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea

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Re:War Between Greece and Turkey Is Now a Real Possibility by higeorge13 on Saturday July 25, 2020 @08:07AM (#23948577)
Hundreds of countries in the world have EEZs [0], but let's make it a big deal for Greece even though it currently doesn't actually exercise their rightful claim to have one. The stability of the region would not be destroyed by Greece utilizing their EEZ, but from aggressive unstabilizing countries claiming borders they don't have and having military presence in places where they shouldn't be.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone

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Re:War Between Greece and Turkey Is Now a Real Possibility by cblconfederate on Saturday July 25, 2020 @07:56AM (#23948528)
But this is about turkey exactly doing oil expeditions 200 miles off their coast. That's OK, but Greece applying international law is not?
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Re:War Between Greece and Turkey Is Now a Real Possibility by mebebil on Saturday July 25, 2020 @11:43AM (#23950010)
I think there are some subreddits you can discuss this at
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Re:War Between Greece and Turkey Is Now a Real Possibility by edna314 on Saturday July 25, 2020 @08:12AM (#23948603)
> This is an issue that is independent of who is running Turkey. There is no conceivable scenario in which 90% of the population of Turkey would not be against being essentially land-locked by Greece, Israel, and Egypt.

*90% of the nationalist/islamist population which consider Greece, Israel, Egypt enemies.

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