U.S. Navy Admiral James Stavridis, the senior American officer in both the U.S. European Command and NATO, blames Turkey for violence against its Greek minority, including his own family, almost 90 years ago.
In a first-person book he published last year, before he took over as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), Stavridis termed Turkey's moves "ethnic cleansing" and a "pogrom," whose victims included his grandparents, expelled from their hometown of Izmir, and his father's uncle, who was killed by violent anti-Greek Turks.
Fighter planes from United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) and other elements under Stavridis' command were to have taken part in the Anatolian Eagle exercise, from which the U.S. withdrew earlier this week, after Turkey barred Israel from participating. Stavridis is closely supervising the upcoming American-Israeli Juniper Cobra air and missile defense exercise, and is scheduled to visit Israel soon.
Stavridis, a 1976 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, was born in Florida and hardly speaks any Greek. As a child, he lived for two years in Athens, where his father, a U.S. Marine Corps officer, served in the American Embassy alongside a U.S. Navy officer whose daughter Stavridis later married. The four-star admiral is widely acclaimed as a brilliant officer, with a Ph.D. in international relations and an impressive record of command and staff positions. Currently, he wears two hats: In addition to his job at NATO - of which Turkey is a member, with forces serving in Afghanistan and working to prevent terrorist penetrations across its border with Iraq - he heads the U.S. European Command (EUCOM), which includes Greece, Turkey and Israel among its dozens of countries.
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Slaying the Turkish beast
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Re: 4 star admiral of the U.S. European Command and NATO Blames Turkey for 'ethnic cleansing
October 15 2009, 2:38 PM
bleh, armenians are crying since 45 and all they get is a sealed border. you can cry as much as you want but we'll keep to pump illegal immigrants to your sorry land just like the rest of the world.
Re: 4 star admiral of the U.S. European Command and NATO Blames Turkey for 'ethnic cleansing
October 15 2009, 2:47 PM
"to pump illegal immigrants"
you can keep pumping them we can keep expelling them, illegals are not citizens they can be expelled at any given time
but how do you expel 30 million Kurds from Turkey numb nuts??? They are there to stay, they have their own representation in turkish parliament soon will elect a Kurdish prime minister that will govern turdgay
i suggest you better get with today's program and learn Kurdish pronto
Re: 4 star admiral of the U.S. European Command and NATO Blames Turkey for 'ethnic cleansing
October 15 2009, 2:56 PM
LOL, you cant expel them... actually thats the prolem for you, you can't do anything right. we need you just 150 more years hand i hope you can keep existing through. the true big migration waves aren't started yet
oh btw, they are not 30 millions but 30 gazillions and we are going to pump them all around after then 2025, just keep your fertilizing rate
Re: 4 star admiral of the U.S. European Command and NATO Blames Turkey for 'ethnic cleansing
October 15 2009, 3:09 PM
Look turco
Muslims in greece are only fighting to get a god damn mosque in Athens (which is no where near any politicians agenda yet) while Kurds in turkey are fighting for Independence and we have seen the amount of bending your AKP government has done over this issue to accommodate the Kurds ie More Kuridhs in schools, Kuridish in universities, renaming towns back to kurdish, Kurdish as 2nd language in south eastern turkey, Kurdish freely spoken in Turkish parliament
so as you see your problem is way more pressing then ours for the time being Muslims in greece can still use the public washrooms in Athens to pray in