They could gain Thrace but any attempt to conquer Istanbul would be a unsuccessful bloodbath
Maybe not if the US government decides to send its full support especially if Greece’s new neighbors are communists? I don’t think the US is going to take the idea of a Communist-controlled Bosporus very lightly.
Actually no. Lets assume a Turkish civil war during the colonels junta, say in 1971 when the Turkish coup by memorandum took place. On the Greek side of the border the Papadopoulos regime is joined at the hip with the United States ( I won't go to whether the US had any connection to the 1967 coup, probably it did not. The fact remains that by 1971 the Nixon administration had very close ties to the regime) and the latter is not going to support anything of the short, if it somehow came to being. Second these are the same people that in 1974 left Cyprus on its own devices in the face of the Turkish invasion and in the ATL they'll dare launch an invasion of Turkey to gain what exactly? Several million Turks as subjects? While forgetting that general mobilizations puts in immediate threat their hold over the army? Not really likely. Taking advantage of the civil war to declare union with Cyprus is as far as they are going to go and would be more than sufficient by itself in terms of gaining them public support.
They could also use a propaganda campaign to remind Greeks of their past oppression and genoicde and the loss of Thrace and Constantinople and the western coast of Anatolia. I’d imagine that could rally some people up. And if the Turkish civil war gets messed up I won’t be surprised if the Greeks are able to exploit the advantage of the distraction of both parties. And like I mentioned the US is NOT going to like a Communist nation on the Mediterranean very much especially when it has NUKES in that country.
Also anyone who knows about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict knows that Greece would resort to practices that... well, let’s just say are better off not mentioned. That’s how they’d be able to secure their claims.
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