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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/turkey-greece-blue-homeland/2020/09/26/15cf7afe-fc3b-11ea-830c-a160b331ca62_story.html

Retired Turkish Admiral Touts Supremacy at Sea

(Washington Post) Kareem Fahim - Retired Turkish admiral Cem Gurdeniz, 62, touts an expansive, nationalist vision of Turkish power projected far into the contested waters off his country's shores. His doctrine, called Blue Homeland, includes a map showing Turkey's land mass surrounded by a wide buffer of nearly 180,000 squares miles of sea stretching beyond the Greek islands off Turkey's west coast. Blue Homeland has energized Turks who feel the country has been unjustly denied its rightful claims to the sea, given its long coastline, and has confirmed for adversaries fears of resurgent Turkish expansionism. The admiral has become a frequent guest on television talk shows, and Blue Homeland has been widely adopted by Turkish politicians.

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