In Regards to my Threat been closed, as the last comment mentioned the Nazis expansion I owned to myself to write the below as I did not had the adequate time to post it
‘It depends how you see it dear Leo. For you might look as a nationalistic plan. However you do forget that Turkey conquered the whole of Greece from 1000 AD to 1500 AD. Greece became a state again in 1833 after a 12 years national liberating war. So the ΜεγαλήΙδέα, does not express vital space and expansion as in Nazi Reich. It express a national Liberation war of the Greek nation and the areas that historically and up until 1923 used to live from the occupation of one of the stronger empires of the earth. That why it is called Great Idea, as a small nation was fighting against an empire by itself within the empire and power system of Europe and Near East. Don’t forget that in the areas of today’s Turkey we are talking about the Greek used to live and were a majority from 2000 BC up until 1923. The Turks enter in the area after a victory of theirs against us in 107somthing.’
In regards to comment to documented sources.
Everything can be found easily in the net and I have already included so
1. Ottoman Steam Navy 1828-1923
2. Greek Naval Strategy and Policy 1910-1919
3. Memoirs of Kemal Ataturk, Leader and father of the Turks
4. Times History of the 20th Century
5. Papyrus Larose Encyclopedia
6. Trotsky’s memoirs as a correspondent during the Balkan’s War
7. The Mediterranean Naval Situation and Greek Naval policy from the Ethiopian Crisis to the outbreak of the Second World War