Turkey ups pressure on Greece to extradite soldiers who fled there after failed coup



ANKARA: -- Turkey says eight of its soldiers who fled to Greece after Friday’s attempted coup are “traitors” who must be handed back.

The Turkish ambassador to Athens said on Tuesday that not extraditing them would harm diplomatic relations between the neighbouring countries, which have long been uneasy.

The soldiers have already started procedures to seek political asylum in Greece. They were registered near the northeastern city of Alexandroupolis.

One of their lawyers, Vassiliki Ilia Marinaki, said the men feared for their lives: “They said that they are afraid of the death penalty or torture if they go back to Turkey.”

Turkey’s ambassador to Athens, Kerim Uras, said the soldiers would have a fair and transparent trial back home.

They already face trial in Greece on Thursday for entering the country illegally. They have denied involvement in Friday’s failed coup, saying their helicopter had been used to transport wounded and had come under fire from police, at which point they fled fearing for their lives.

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LOL. Good luck with that. No love lost between them.

What will they do? Even more incursions of Greek air space?

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For once in Europe those soldiers are real political refuges

"Turkey’s ambassador to Athens, Kerim Uras, said the soldiers would have a fair and transparent trial back home."

I wonder how much they paid the people traffickers to get on a flimsy rubber dingy

Should be no hiding place wherever................send them back

...sounds like a pretext for war....

...the soldiers entered illegally and were arrested......

...so why don't they cut the crap.....

...Greece did not ignore their communications.....

...seems like a setup for war....

...maybe they were purposefully sent over the border.....

Why are these refugees in handcuffs, thousands come from Turkey last year I don't see any one else in handcuffs and no requests for Greece to send them back.

Double standards if Turkey wants them back they have to have the others back too

...sounds like a pretext for war....

...the soldiers entered illegally and were arrested......

...so why don't they cut the crap.....

...Greece did not ignore their communications.....

...seems like a setup for war....

...maybe they were purposefully sent over the border.....

All megalomaniacs eventually over reach and are instrumental in their own undoing. That Erdogan is mentally unstable is there for all to see now, there can be no more pretending so this marks a most dangerous stage where Erdogan in a fit of temper may decide to go down in flames by starting a religious war.

A coup per se is almost impossible to justify under almost any circumstance.

That being said, the big mistake of the coup gang was to not go right after Erdogan himself. If you're gonna have a coup against a stiff punisher such as Erdogan you've got to go right at him and go right to him first and foremost. Pop him right off, first thing and right away.

When Pinochet the fascist did his coup in Chile his forces went right to the presidential palace and plugged Pres. Allende between the eyes. Allende was not Erdogan but Pinochet did it exactly by the book...in fact Pinochet rewrote the book on it.

So now this mad autocrat and tyrant Erdogan is applying all the power of the Turkish state against everybody who ever looked at him in the wrong way...and anyone who ever looked at him period.

It wouldn't be such a bad thing if Greece told Erdogan to be satisfied with the many thousands of innocents he already has in soiled hand.

"Turkey’s ambassador to Athens, Kerim Uras, said the soldiers would have a fair and transparent trial back home."

And then be shot

The reply to the Turkish Ambassador should be 'This is Sparta.'.