Unlike the coronavirus, Turkey is here to stay

No one expected that Turkey would join Greece in celebrating the anniversary of the 1821 uprising against the Ottoman Empire. Nor did anyone expect that on that very symbolic day for Greece, Turkish fighter jets would violate Greek airspace over the Evros border region and the Aegean Sea. In doing so, Turkey violated agreements that stipulate refraining from military activity on national holidays.

The coronavirus pandemic has left the globe in disarray. Anti-government activists in Hong Kong were stranded at home. So were the yellow vests in Paris. Even Islamic extremists appear to have put their terrorist activity on hold.

The one thing that the coronavirus does not seem to have affected is Turkey's provocative policy toward Greece. Ankara's submission to the United Nations of the coordinates included in the Turkey-Libya maritime boundaries accord - which shun the...