Turkish leader revisits Aegean spat

Continuing a trend of provocative statements, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday indirectly disputed the status of the Imia islets in the Aegean Sea, over which Greece and Turkey nearly went to war in 1996, and of other islands too ahead of a telephone conversation between the two countries' defense ministers.

"This year there was no crisis around Kardak because of the stance we maintained there," Erdogan told journalists, using the Turkish name for the Imia islets.

"We said that if [Greece makes] any move, of the sort it has made in the past, then we will also do something. But if Greece does not do anything, you will see that we will not do anything," he said. "My defense minister would most probably call the Greek defense minister to thank him and to continue this process in [Imia] and the other islands," he added.

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