Word: turkeys
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...Turkey. In 1974 Turkey invaded Cyprus with NATO arms, and since then it has occupied 37% of the island. Neither Turkey nor Greece has any business being in Cyprus. Cyprus is not Greek territory, but there are ethnic bonds of language, culture and history between Greece and Cyprus. What has NATO done to curb Turkish aggression...
Turkish leaders have never accepted the legal status quo in the Aegean. They want either the partition of the Aegean or co-sovereignty over the region. They want half of the continental shelf in the eastern Aegean, and claim that Turkey, rather than Greece, has air-defense responsibility for an area that includes some of Greece's most important islands. It looks like the beginning of the dismemberment of Greece. Since all NATO exercises in the Aegean validate the Turkish viewpoint, we do not participate in them...
...diplomacy, although neither side offered major political concessions. The mercurial Papandreou seemed content with yet another demonstration of his aggressively independent style in East-West relations. His occasional anti-U.S. rhetoric and his jabs against NATO (see box) are based on the conviction that a fellow NATO ally, Turkey, and not the Soviet Union, represents the greatest threat to Greece's security...
Despite pressure from the Greek delegation, the Soviets refused to be dragged into Greece's bitter dispute with Turkey over Cyprus, and the official communique contained only a vague acknowledgment of Greek claims in the Aegean Sea. Since Greece and Turkey are strategically placed close to the Black Sea, Moscow wants to maintain good relations with both countries. The Soviets pleased Papandreou by agreeing to build a gas pipeline through Bulgaria to Greece, starting in 1986, at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion. Moscow also promised to award Greek shipyards orders for four vessels worth $65 million and contracts...
...exchange involving Weinberger came just a day after the Reagan Administration provoked Greek anger by announcing foreign aid requests for fiscal 1986 that favor Turkey over Greece ($789 million in military aid plus $150 million in economic support, vs. only $501 million in military aid for Greece). In Athens' view, the allocations violated a congressionally mandated policy of recent years to grant Greece the equivalent of at least 70% of military aid going to Turkey. Papandreou in turn hardened his stand toward NATO. Henceforth, he told a parliamentary group of his ruling Socialist party, Greece would not participate...