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Well I didn't say that it claims all of the Aegean but that it has some claims in the Aegean. The 12nmi/6nmi is the main point of disagreement I guess. Turkey says that 12nmi would cut its connection from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean although Greece argues that it's guaranteed due to the...

Well the Greeks voted for pro-European parties in the 2012 elections. Why not now as well? Especially after they see how awful this government was and what it really means to default on your loans... There was actually a proposal by the creditors recently. They asked us to proceed in cuts of...

Sadly I'm not very optimistic about the possibility of reaching a deal with the current government. What I predict is that a solution won't be found, we'll default and then we'll have elections where a pro-European coalition wins, manages to reach a deal with Europe in a short time and saves the...

We can't send them all back. Some of them come from Syria. It'd be against both EU and international law...

Not a good move. Unless Russia invades the UK or something, they have nothing to do there... They'd be much more useful staying in Germany or (even better) moving to an Eastern European country. They're just doing this to cut military spending and lower the deficit.

I'd talk about the genocides and the massacres that all these countries have commited but the main point is that it's not a prerequisite for Turkish membership so it wouldn't matter.

Come on that's such an obvious conspiracy theory... In fact the US government and Obama personally have been supporting the new Greek govt quite a lot... It's just recently that they've started losing their patience because Greece refuses to reach a deal with its creditors, almost released a...

Jaysh al-Islam is part of the Islamic Front which in turn is part of the Syrian Revolutionary Command Council. The FSA is also part of the SRCC but this doesn't mean that Jaysh al-Islam is part of the FSA.

Well our crazy commies that are now in office threw around some empty threats a few days after they were elected, saying that they would veto the sanctions against Russia. In the end they agreed with the EU's decision to extend the sanctions. The reality is that although our current government...

Very good decision by the US. NATO members have to support each other in times like these.

Italy has to arrest them all and put them in these reception centres. If there isn't enough space build more of them. Then release only the genuine refugees after they pass through screening and send everyone else back in their origin countries. And then have the EU distribute the genuine...

In life you have to make compromises. Would I like the Cyprus issue to be solved? Greece to have 12 n. miles territorial waters? Turkey to recognize the Armenian genocide? I would really like all of that. The problem is that Turkey would enter the EU in the year 2150 if we waited until all of...

You don't just need to fulfil economic conditions to join the EU. There's no way European countries would agree to Turkey joining the EU without having solved the issue with Cyprus first.

The argument that Greek leftists and communists use, that Greece's debt is due to us buying expensive military equipment is totally baseless. For example, from 1999 to 2014 ordinary budget expenditure totals ~830 billion euros. About 300 billion of which was given as wages and pensions to public...

It's just a fact that both the West and Iran see Iraq as a common ally. I'm not buying into the sob story that ISIS prevailed due to the suppression of the Sunni minority by the Iraqi govt. They're still butthurt due to the US invasion that put an end to Saddam's tyrannical rule and started...

I'm not so optimistic. For now all I'm seeing is Assad losing to ISIS day by day. In the end Assad will fall but how the opposition will handle ISIS is another issue...

We're talking about the US fighting with the Iraqi army to defend Iraqi territory. It has nothing to do with Iran or Hezbollah. Obama doesn't want it because he's afraid of the political cost. They give them air support now. Iraq is a democracy. ISIS attacked Iraq and many countries came to...

If the argument is that Turkish ships won't be able to pass through Greek territorial waters if they are extended to 12 nautical miles, it's not a good argument because of a concept of international law called innocent passage which allows vessel to pass through the territorial waters of another...

I'm just saying it because of the disputes that Greece has (mostly with Turkey and Albania) over whether its islands are entitled to an EEZ or not. Greek islands have villages, are populated since ancient times, have ports and airports and yet there are disputes.

This thing has an EEZ? Really? ._. Damn.