Athens' response to Ankara's objections regarding the historical map offered by the Chief of the Hellenic National Defense Staff, General Demetrios Houpis, to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew during his recent visit to Istanbul was strong. The Ministry of National Defense, citing sources, clarifies that the gift was purely symbolic in nature and characterizes Turkey's reactions as "stupid." According to military sources, the map that General Houpis gave to the Patriarch is the "Thraciae Veteris Typus" of 1585, the work of the Flemish cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius. The map in question depicts the wider geographical area of ​​Thrace, including the Dardanelles Straits, the Propontis, the Bosporus, Constantinople, the Black Sea and the islands of Imbros, Tenedos, Lemnos, Samothrace and Thassos. "The map was chosen as a symbolic gift to His Holiness, because it depicts his special homeland, Imbros," the same sources note...