Greece, Turkey snipe over maritime borders

ISTANBUL/ATHENS (Reuters) - Turkey warned Greece on Tuesday it would not tolerate a shift in Greece’s maritime border, drawing a sharp rebuke from Athens that it would decide when and how it exercises its sovereign rights.



FILE PHOTO: A Turkish coast guard ship patrols in the Aegean Sea off the Turkish coast, April 20, 2016, part of a NATO naval presence meant to monitor illegal naval movement between Turkey and Greece. REUTERS/John MacDougall/Pool/File Photo

The statements from both sides came a few days after Greece’s former foreign minister said Greece planned to extend its territorial waters to 12 miles to the west of the country.

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