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Kotzias: Turkey Realizes 'Greece is not Afrin'


Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias has warned Turkey it could lose a war in the Aegean, saying “Greece is not Afrin”.
In an interview with SKAI TV aired on Tuesday night, Kotzias said Ankara had realized that the cost of an Aegean conflict is perhaps too high.
“Greece is not Afrin and [Turkey] realizes that it would not only be costly but that it could lose,” he said, referring to Turkey’s ongoing military intervention in northern Syria.
He also revealed that the two NATO allies came close to conflict last February when a Turkish coast guard vessel rammed a Greek patrol boat off the Imia islets in the Aegean Sea.
Turkey has “come close” to overstepping Greece’s “red lines,” he said.
“If we didn’t have a calm and composed approach from the Greek side, no one can say where this could have led,” the foreign minister added.
Asked to comment about the two Greek servicemen held for two months in a Turkish jail for crossing inadvertently into the country’s territory, Kotzias said that he is “not in a position to say whether they fell into a trap or whether this was planned”.
He noted that in the past such incidents had been dealt with and solved immediately by border officers.
“It’s not the same Turkey, with which we used to exchange soldiers who crossed over and were arrested. I have a whole file (of such cases) on my desk,” Kotzias said.

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