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Article: Bitter foes near brink on Ocalan.
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 28, 1999
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****THE ATHENS-ANKARA RIFT IS HEATING UP, PUTTING PRESSURE ON GREECE'S NEW FOREIGN MINISTER.****
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Diplomatic reports warn that rising tensions between Greece and Turkey over the seizure of a Kurdish guerrilla leader are liable to escalate into a damaging conflict.
Much depends on the performance of U.S.-born George Papandreou, Greece's new foreign minister, whose task is being described by diplomats as "keeping Greece away from the brink."
These diplomats say the repercussions have only just begun from seizure earlier this month by Turkish agents of Abdullah Ocalan, head of the leftist Kurdistan Workers Party, after he had ...