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Waving a Map at the U.N., Greece's Leader Takes On Turkey Over a Line in the Sea
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of Greece stood before the United Nations Security Council on Thursday holding a map. It showed a line drawn across the Mediterranean between Turkey and Libya that runs straight past Crete, Greece's largest island, as if it were not there. "Turkey and Libya have tried to draw a maritime border between them as if the Greek islands that lie between their coasts did not exist," Mr. Mitsotakis said. "These are not uninhabited rocks in the middle of the sea. These are thriving communities with centuries of history, where hundreds of thousands of people live. G