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Article: Turkey and Greece Put Forces on Alert;U.S. Base Affected in Aegean Sea Dispute
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- The Washington Post
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- March 28, 1987
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Greece and Turkey put their military forces on alert yesterday,
and Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou asked the United States
to suspend operations at one of its four bases in Greece as a dispute
intensified over Turkish plans to send an oil exploration vessel
today into an area of the Aegean Sea claimed by both countries.
After a day in which officials of the two eastern Mediterranean
neighbors issued a series of warnings to each other, however, Turkish
Prime Minister Turgut Ozal was quoted by Turkish radio late last
night as saying that his country's oil research ship would not move
into the disputed waters unless Greece did the same.
"We are waiting for the first move from them," ...