US EditionGreece Says Turkey Must Lift War Threat To Get Access To EU Defence Funds
- The Greek Prime Minister emphasized on Thursday that Turkey must remove a decades-old war threat against Greece before Athens will approve Ankara's participation in EU defence funding.
- The demand follows decades of Greek-Turkish disputes, including Turkey's 1995 parliamentary 'casus belli' over Greek territorial waters in the Aegean Sea.
- Mitsotakis linked Turkey's access to the EU's Security Action for Europe arms fund to addressing Greek and Cypriot concerns while noting upcoming high-level talks.
- He told Skai radio that after three decades, it is now appropriate to urge Turkey to withdraw its war threat from consideration.
- The issue complicates Turkey's inclusion in EU defence projects, as Greece and Cyprus oppose it, while EU decisions will proceed by qualified majority despite their objections.
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Greece says Turkey must drop war threat for EU defence funds
Turkey must lift a 30-year old war threat against Greece if it wants Athens to consent to Ankara accessing European Union defence funds, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday. Greece and Turkey, NATO allies but historic foes, have been at odds for decades over a range of issues from airspace to the extent of their maritime boundaries and ethnically-split Cyprus. In 1995, the Turkish parliament declared a "casus belli", or cau…
Greece Says Turkey Must Lift War Threat To Get Access To EU Defence Funds
Turkey must lift a 30-year old war threat against Greece if it wants Athens to consent to Ankara accessing European Union defence funds, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday.
Greece says Turkey must lift war threat to get access to EU defence funds
ATHENS - Turkey must lift a 30-year old war threat against Greece if it wants Athens to consent to Ankara accessing European Union defence funds, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Drop war threat to access EU defence funds, Greek PM tells Turkey
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said Turkey must withdraw its long-standing threat of war against Greece if it wants access to European Union defence funding, including the bloc’s new Security Action for Europe (SAFE) arms initiative. Speaking to Skai radio on Thursday, Mitsotakis said, “It has been 30 years since the Turkish National Assembly voted on the infamous casus belli. I think that 30 years later, the time has come to direc…
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