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Article: ARBITER IN THE AEGEAN
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 1, 1987
CopyrightCopyright 1987 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The Balkans had an old - ashioned, pre-1914 kind of crisis
last week when Greece and Turkey made menacing military gestures
toward one another. The Turks sent an oil-exploration ship
accompanied by warships and jet fighters into the Aegean Sea and
announced it would begin searching for oil in waters near a Greek
island. The Greeks replied that this would be tantamount to an
invasion. For two days, both sides had their armed forces on a war
footing. Scare headlines dominated the newspapers in Athens and
Ankara.
War did not happen because the United States put pressure on
the Turks to back off. Turkey and Greece are members of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization. The United States ...