Turkey eyes undoing of international treaties

The 1913 Treaty of London, the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, the Convention between Italy and Turkey signed in 1932, and the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty leave no room to question or misinterpret Greece's sovereign rights in the Aegean. Athens is right to invoke these pacts against Ankara's systematic claims which appear to be part of a national strategy after 1974 and following the devastating coup by the military dictatorship on Cyprus. Turkey's efforts have not met with much success as Greek diplomacy has been quite effective in defending the country's interests and territorial integrity.

The effective defense of sovereign rights on the basis of international law was possible up until recently as international agreements enjoyed a meaningful degree of respect, but now volatility across Greece's wider region is on the rise and Turkey seems determined to unmake treaties which it...