Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that his country's navy will not back down as Greece "sows chaos" in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, where the two countries have deployed frigates in an escalating rhetorical confrontation over overlapping resource claims.
"The ones who throw Greece in front of the Turkish navy will not stand behind them," he said.
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Greek government spokesman Stelios Petsas said, "Greece is responding calmly and with readiness both on a diplomatic and on an operational level. And with national confidence, it does everything needed to defend its sovereign rights."
