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Article: Greeks and Turks replay old slanging match over Aegean
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 6, 1994
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TURKEY and Greece are at it again: military manoeuvres, angry
rhetoric and intricate diplomatic arguments about the Aegean Sea,
supported by background briefing papers that take their readers
back more than 100 years.
Both sides would be mad to fight - and their foreign ministers
have agreed to stop using the word "war". But tensions are still
high between Nato's most inimical "allies". Diplomats in the region
are crossing their fingers, hoping that an almost inevitable
incident over a fishing incursion or an airspace violation does not
lead to a wider confrontation.
The pretext for all the excitement is the lumbering progress of
the International Law of the Sea, due to come into force on 16 ...