Originally Posted by
Just This Once...
I struggle to imagine a UK that could descend to the depths Erdogan has achieved in order to prompt so many good men to even consider a coup.
No we wouldn't, I agree - but as I described it above - and you were to subsitute the names and locations - that is exactly what happened in Turkey. Previous coups have been reasonably quiet transfer of power - no street fighting etc - but loads of extrajudicial killings, executions etc..
But back to the Thread. Do not believe everything the Greeks claim - they can be as equally difficult as the Turks and the history of the Aegean leaves egg on our faces, too - such as in 1947 awarding islands that sat only a couple of hundred metres off the Turkish mainland to Greece - after they had been occupied by the Nazis. Greece also claims the FIR boundary as sovereign air space - and Turkey deliberately flies through what they believe as international airspace, to demonstrate customary usage.