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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Not returning Turkish soldiers will not help relations with Greece

ATHENS (Reuters) - Turkey's ambassador to Athens said on Tuesday that not extraditing the eight Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece after a failed military coup on the weekend would not help bilateral relation between the two neighbours. Relations between the NATO allies have warmed in recent years but they have a long history of enmity and a longstanding dispute over territorial borders in the Aegean, with warplanes from both sides regularly engaging in mock dogfights. Territorial disputes almost provoked a war between Greece and Turkey in 1996 over tiny uninhabited islets. ...


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