The map, which was delivered by Chief of General Staff General Dimitrios Houpis in Ecumenical Patriarch K. Bartholomew, during his visit to Constantinople, as part of the 18th Council of the leaders of the Armed Forces of the Balkan countries, is the “Thraciae Veteris Typus” map of 1585 AD. designed by Flemish cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius (Abraham Ortelius), his sources reported Ministry of National Defense Responding to allegations by the Turkish Ministry of Defense.

As conveyed by Constantinople the Manolis Kostidis his sources Turkish Ministry of Defense They reacted to the map commenting: “The tooling of the past to give a message is but a nostalgic consolation. We call on those who are trying to disrupt the constructive approaches that the leaders of the two countries are promoting and those who are trying to make a political career by sowing divisions between the Turkish and the Greek people to see, to understand and to accept the realities by abandoning them.

Responding to sources from the Greek Ministry of Defense, they noted that the map “reflects the geographical area of ​​Thrace, the straits of the Dardanelles, the Propontis, the Bosphorus, the Constantinople, the Black Sea and the Islands Thassos, Samothraki, Samothraki. He was handed over as a symbolic gift by the Chief of General Staff to Panagiotis, precisely because he depicts his homeland, Imbros.

“To complain about the map of this particular historical” sources “of the Ministry of National Defense of Turkey, a country citing a 2025 map of the ‘blue homeland’, which only in their imagination has nothing to do with international law and international law and international law. It touches the boundaries of the funeralness“