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Greece Denies Turkish Terrorist Report

Greek Premier Antonis Samaras (L) with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Greek Premier Antonis Samaras (L) with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Reports in the Turkish media that Greece closed down two Kurdish terrorist camps near Athens following talks in Ankara between Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan are baseless, the Greek government said.
“The Turkish newspapers’ claims are groundless and a product of the imagination,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Grigoris Delavekouras in a statement.
“Terrorist training camps never opened or existed in Lavrio or anywhere else in Greece, so they can’t have been closed. It seems that there are those in Turkey who are irritated by the clear positions and good climate in Greek-Turkish relations evident from the joint press conference of the two Prime Ministers,” the statement added.
In February, it was reported that Erdogan gave Samaras a file compiled by the Turkish intelligence service, MIT, containing details of all Kurdish terrorists that it deems are currently in Greece. The file reportedly resurrected references to the purported existence of training camps in Attica – in Lavrio, Kinetta, Oropos and Dilesi – which Ankara has made several times in the past and have been dismissed by Athens as attempts to apply political pressure.
Claims by Erdogan that he and Samaras had discussed the issue of training camps for members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) during talks in Qatar in January were quickly dismissed by Athens at the time.
Greek diplomatic sources said Athens had expressed its irritation with the way Ankara has pursued the matter. The same sources noted that Greece has been categorical in its condemnation of terrorism and claimed that Erdogan’s stance is that all European countries tolerate terrorism.

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