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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other officials walk to the mausoleum of modern Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on Victory Day, in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022.
TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to “come down suddenly one night” on Greece by attacking Aegean islands that have had military bases set up.
The president’s warning on Saturday, in which he said Greece should “look at history” and see how “heavy the price” would be for alienating Ankara, is the most direct threat of war yet issued against Turkey’s neighbour — a fellow member of the US-led Nato alliance.
He spoke at an air show where the Turkish military displayed a prototype of a robot jet fighter which would fly without a pilot.
From nuclear bomb storage in the 1950s to surveillance flights over Gaza today, the Cyprus base has enabled seven decades of machinations so heinous that Starmer once blurted out ‘we can’t tell the world’ what goes on there, writes NUVPREET KALRA
