Erdogan aide threats 'alien to European political culture,' Athens says

The Foreign Ministry has condemned the violent threats issued this week by a senior adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan against Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, his ministers and other Greek officials, as "unspeakable" and "alien to European political culture."

In an interview aired on Turkish TV channel TRT on Wednesday evening, Yigit Bulut warned Athens that anyone who sets foot on the eastern Aegean islets of Imia, whose sovereignty Ankara disputes, will "feel the anger of Turkey, worse than that in Afrin" - a reference to the Kurdish-controlled enclave in Syria where Turkey has launched an air and ground offensive.

"We will break the arms and legs of any officers, of the prime minister or of any minister who dares to step onto Imia in the Aegean," he said.

In response to a journalist's question, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexandros Gennimatas said...