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A US State Department spokesperson responded to a map released by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ultra-right MHP party leader Devlet Bahceli, showing many Greek Aegean islands and most of Crete as Turkish, by yet another firm affirmation that for the US the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Greece is not disputed.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has led Turkey for the past 20 years, announced during a speech in Izmir on June 9 that he will seek re-election in next year's elections.

A new campaign ad for Turkey's nationalist MHP party, which supports Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the upcoming snap election, depicts the island of Cyprus as Turkish territory.

The party, which campaigns under the slogan "Everything for our country," has focused its narrative on building a Turkey that is strong and unified.

The video was released on Monday.

In the latest serving of hostile rhetoric from across the Aegean, the leader of Turkey's ultra-right MHP party Devlet Bahceli, an ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Monday hit out at Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

Washington appears to have activated a channel of communication with Ankara in a bid to reduce the recent spike in tensions with Greece in the Aegean Sea.

The daughter of the founder of the extremist group the “Grey Wolves” will not vote in favor of the constitutional changes in the upcoming referendum, which leaves open the question of what is the organization going to do.

 
On a parallel development the nationalistic MHP party seems divided as a number of MPs has stated that they will reject the constitutional changes.

More than half of Turkish voters have voiced preference for the current political system in the country to be preserved, an Ipsos poll suggests.

The survey was carried out on November 02, a day after the early election in which the Justice and Development Party (AKP) regained the majority it had lost in the June 07 vote.