Athens hits back at Erdogan

Athens on Monday sought to send a stern message to Ankara after a photograph emerged over the weekend showing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in front of a map showing his country's territorial waters extending nearly halfway across the Aegean Sea.
In comments on Alpha 98.9 FM, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias dismissed the photo as a "public relations stunt," adding that Turkey could continue to "act like the region's troublemaker" but Greece had no intention of responding in kind.
"States' borders are not defined by whatever map some ministry decides to draw, but on the basis of international law," Dendias said, referring to the photograph of Erdogan at the National Defense University in Istanbul.

He added that Turkey's opinions belong to a "minority of one" - repeating a phrase used by former US assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs...

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