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Article: GREECE, TURKEY THREATEN WAR OVER AEGEAN RIGHTS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 28, 1987
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ATHENS - Turkey and Greece threatened war yesterday as a
Turkish oil exploration ship prepared to move into the Aegean Sea
with a naval escort, but Turkey said last night that the vessel
will stay out of disputed waters if the Greek military does the
same.
Greece blamed the United States for the crisis, saying it
supported Turkey. The Greeks said they was closing a US Navy
communications base near Athens.
Prime Minister Turgut Ozal of Turkey said the exploration
ship Sismik-1 would remain in territorial waters and "wait for them
to make the first move.
"If the Greeks intervene against our ship we will intervene in
exactly the same way," he said. "This may be the cause of a war ...