Growing consensus against Turkey’s threats to Greece

The US State Department, in unusually tough language, slammed Turkey for creating another crisis off the coast of a small Greek island. Turkey has been using NAVTEX, a naval warning announcement, to force its navy into Greek waters or off the coast of Greek islands under the guise of “research.” It is a carefully orchestrated series of provocations by Ankara, stage-managed every month by Turkey’s increasingly aggressive an extremist far-right President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to try to bully Greece and Mediterranean countries.






