Erdogan endangers Turkey-Greece ties by disputing borders treaty: Tsipras
‘Greece says Turkey is endangering bilateral relations by deriding the 1923 Lausanne Treaty that defined the modern boundaries between the two countries.
“Questioning the Treaty of Lausanne, which established norms in Greco-Turkish relations (and) the status quo in the Aegean and its islands, is dangerous to relations between the two countries and to the broader region,” Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s office quoted him as saying on Friday.
A day earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described the almost-a-century-old peace accord as a defeat, whose “setbacks” have been endured by the country ever since it came into force.’
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