NEW TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTRY WEB SITE AROUSES INDIGNATION IN GREECE

PanARMENIAN.Net
13.05.2008 12:42 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Greece has protested to Turkey over an official
web site claiming Greece was trying to destabilize its neighbor and
longtime regional rival, the Greek foreign minister said Monday.

Dora Bakoyannis said she had summoned Turkey’s ambassador for
clarification after a Turkish foreign ministry web site detailed past
grievances between the two countries, which normalized ties at the
end of the 1990s after decades of hostility.

Athens newspapers on Sunday quoted from the web site, including a
passage implying Greece had sought to destabilize its neighbor.

The Web site had made "unfounded allegations" concerning Greek-Turkish
relations, Bakoyannis told journalists, adding, "We expect a
correction."

"The Internet is a place for the free spreading of ideas, not for
unfounded allegations," she said.

The site details at length long-standing differences between the two
countries such as questions of sovereignty over areas of the Aegean
Sea separating them, the status of the Turkish minority in Greece
and of a Greek Black Sea minority.

At that all disputable issues are presented in Turkey’s favor.

Since normalizing ties a decade ago, the two sides have generally
sought in official relations to play down past differences, the
AFP reports.
From: Baghdasarian