Erdoğan questions historic treaty

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The Debates feature from Euro|Topics offers English (+ French and German) translations of a selections of articles in European news sources on this topic.

Euro|Topics relaunched their website during 2016. Features published before that date are still available via an archive website (see related url hyperlinks0With strong words about the 1023 Treaty of Lausanne in October 2016 Turkey's President Erdoğan not only called into question his country's founding myth but also its borders with Greece: the Turkish president described the 1923 treaty which defines the borders of modern Turkey as humiliating and lamented that it gave away Aegean islands to Greece. Is he just trying to provoke a reaction?

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Hürriyet Daily News, 02.10.16: Row over Lausanne Treaty continues to roil Turkish politics http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/row-over-lausanne-treaty-continues-to-roil-turkish-politics-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=104493&NewsCatID=338
Kathimerini, 05.10.16: [Opinion]: Erdogan’s motives http://www.ekathimerini.com/212560/opinion/ekathimerini/comment/erdogans-motives
Wikipedia: Treaty of Lausanne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Lausanne

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