Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called on Greece to stop “militarising” Greek islands neighbouring Turkey and warned that Turkish military forces could come “at night”.
The threat comes after tensions between the two neighbours have become increasingly heightened in recent months, Euroactiv writes.
Questioned about his earlier use of the phrase and the possibility of Turkish military action against its NATO ally, Erdogan reiterated the expression.
“What I’m talking about is not a dream,” he said at a news conference in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo. “If what I said was that we could come one night all of a sudden (it means) that, when the time comes, we can come suddenly one night.”, AP reports.
”What I earlier said is not a dream, if I have earlier said that we can come one night…, but if there are islands, military bases, and have some pretensions that are illegal and threat to us, our patience has ending, because when we lose our patients, everything can happen. If it comes to that, we can do everything necessary.”
