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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again drawn attention with provocative remarks suggesting a redefinition of his country’s borders, this time referencing cities far beyond Turkey’s geographic limits, including Thessaloniki in Greece and Crimea.

The Eastern Mediterranean is an area vital to Greek and Cypriot interests, and Turkish belligerence in the region is definitely disturbing in Athens and Nicosia, but also Jerusalem, Beirut, Tehran, Erbil, Baghdad, as well as in the homes of common folk in Damascus.

“We are left with two people among the world’s leaders right now. Me and Putin,” said Recep Tayyip Erdogan.