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Thursday, December 29, 2011

A former Turkish prime minister admits that in the 1990s, his country officially sabotaged Greece by setting forest fires.

Greek politicians reacted angrily on Monday following the 
admission by former Turkish Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz 
that Turkish secret agents intentionally started forest fires in 
Greece in the 1990s as part of state-sponsored sabotage.
The claims are not new and were common knowledge on 
the islands of the eastern Aegean which were particularly 
hard hit by wildfires in the 1990s. But Yilmaz’s 
comments -- part of an interview published in the 
Turkish daily newspaper Birgun over the 
weekend -- are the first admission by an official source 
that Ankara was funding subversive activities in Greece.
According to Yilmaz, who served as premier three times in the 1990s, agents of the 
Turkish secret service set fire to Greek forests during the leadership of his archrival 
Tansu Ciller, from 1995 to 1998. During that period major forest fires caused huge 
damage on the islands of the eastern Aegean and in Macedonia.
The news sparked political outrage Greece on Monday. Foreign Ministry spokesman 
Grigoris Delavekouras said the claims were “serious and must be investigated,” 
adding that Athens was awaiting a briefing from Ankara.
Conservative New Democracy’s shadow foreign minister Panos Panayiotopoulos 
said the revelations “cast heavy shadows over Greek-Turkish relations” and called 
on Turkey recompense Greece for losses incurred.
Giorgos Karatzaferis, the leader of the right-wing Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS), 
was indignant and triumphant, noting that he had been accused of extremism when 
as an MP he had accused Turkish secret agents of arson in Greece. “Now, from the 
lips of former Turkish premier, we have an admission to the crime,” he said.
   
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