Joint European-Greek front against Turkey – Ankara frenzy with vain arguments

By Penelope Galliou

Without provocation, the Turkish provocation against Greece is escalating and one after another, Erdogan’s top ministers, Turkish officials and the Turkish media are attacking our country directly, questioning the sovereignty of the Greek islands, falsifying every aspect of the black history. without a nugget of truth. Athens insists on choosing calmness and the path of arguments and international law, rejecting tension while collapsing for Turkey is the report of the European Parliament on the accession process of Turkey in 2021, which, above all, focuses on and condemns its provocation towards Greece and Cyprus.

The extreme insulting outburst of Tsavousoglou

Tearing up every historic treaty and all the rules governing international law, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoλουlu, in yet another insulting delusion against Greece, again raised the non-existent, arbitrary and provocative issue of the his country’s arguments for the demilitarization of the islands while accepting the baton of provocation from Erdogan’s government partner Devlet Bahceli and the representative of the Turkish Ministry of Defense

“We have sent two letters to the UN with our positions. In case Greece continues its violations on islands with a demilitarized regime, then I repeat that their sovereignty will be discussed. Because they can not answer us legally they become even more nervous, they give stupid answers they do demagogy, and they say that Turkey wants to take our islands. “Greek politicians have an inferiority complex,” said Mevlut Tsavousoglou, during statements with his counterpart from Northern Macedonia.

The answer of Athens

In the Turkish frenzy Athens opposes the path of argument and international law refusing to follow the delusion of lies and provocation of the neighbor, contributing to the instability caused by Turkey in the wider region. According to diplomatic sources, “Regarding the recent statements of a senior Turkish official, regarding the” interconnection “of Greek sovereignty of the islands and the adjacent Aegean islands with the alleged obligation to demilitarize these islands, it is noted that the Greek side has sent two “The two letters of the Greek Permanent Representative to the UN Secretary-General underline a series of legal arguments that the unilateral objections of the Turkish side are not valid. “They have clear revisionist motives and further fuel the instability that Turkey is causing with its actions.”

The message of Mitsotakis

Earlier, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, after clarifying Greece’s unwavering ability to defend its sovereignty and sovereign rights, referred to Ankara’s deadlocked provocation and sent a new message urging the Turkish side not to transfer its rhetoric to the field. Rhetoric that, as the Prime Minister said, goes beyond the limits and from one point onwards becomes graphic. “This is an unpleasant development because I also had the impression after the meeting with President Erdogan that we had found a framework for reconciliation. We had an unprecedented barrage of overflights and a constant shaking of the unthinkable argument for supposedly reduced sovereignty in the Greek islands. This rhetoric can lead us nowhere. “It is the duty of our country to raise this challenge and seek the support of our allies, whether we are talking about the US or the EU. This support came publicly without asterisks and footnotes,” replied the prime minister, who noted that in the past we have seen periods of great intensity in rhetoric. “I hope, I hope and I openly encourage Turkey that this rhetoric will not be translated into more tension in the field. “Greece in any case is ready to defend its sovereignty and sovereign rights”, he underlined, speaking in a discussion within the conference on “The Health System in the New Age”.

Mr. Mitsotakis also referred to the personal attacks he receives from time to time by the Turkish president, on the occasion of the recent “Mitsotakis yoke” of Tayyip Erdogan. “This is not the first time the Turkish president has said that he does not speak to me. He had said it even after Evros. I imagine at some point we will talk because we have to talk. I do not hold a grudge. However, I will defend the Greek positions with the certainty that we are right on our side “, the Prime Minister answered when asked about the possibility of his meeting with Tayyip Erdogan on the occasion of the NATO summit at the end of the month in Madrid.

Condemnation of Turkey by the European Parliament

The culmination of all of Turkey’s extreme behavior and provocations came the European Parliament (EC) report on Turkey’s 2021 accession process, which is a blow to Ankara in terms of its human rights and state performance. law but also in terms of its provocation towards Greece and Cyprus.

On the Greek-Turkish issue, MEPs are focusing on the new Turkish escalation and deploring the recent statements by Turkish officials questioning Greek sovereignty over some of its islands, which are counterproductive and undermine the security environment in the region, such as they mention. Reiterating the call on all parties to make a sincere collective effort to negotiate the boundaries of the EEZs and the continental shelf in the region on the basis of good faith and international rules, condemn the harassment of research vessels within the Greek Cypriot EEZ, as well as the Greek airspace, including overflights.

The angry reaction of the Turkish Foreign Minister

“While the need to strengthen relations between our country and the EU through mutual efforts is obvious, we do not accept and reject the biased and unrealistic assessments of the EP in the report, which ignore this need with a shallow and visionless approach.

Our primary expectation from the EP is not to become a tool in the narrow-minded agenda and to show an encouraging attitude towards the EU institutions in order to revive the accession negotiation process. Unfortunately, the EP has so far taken the opposite stance. This attitude of the EP, which tolerates even members of terrorist organizations to nest in the EP and make terrorist propaganda, is not really surprising. Thus, the EP has lost both its credibility and its credibility in the eyes of the Turkish people.

Therefore, the unfounded views in the report that reflect the claims of democracy, rule of law and human rights regarding our country and the narrow-minded efforts of one or two EU members for the Aegean, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Cyprus issue do not benefit us.

Our expectation from the EU is for all EU institutions to fulfill their obligations to Turkey, to revitalize the accession process in this context, to speed up the dialogue on visa liberalization, to start negotiations on updating the Customs Increase cooperation in the fight against terrorism, in particular voluntary humanitarian issues in the context of migration cooperation. It is the implementation of the Readmission Plan.

“This report, which assesses Turkey with a shallow perspective instead of encouraging steps to take on these issues, is a new example of the EP’s distancing and ideologically biased stance and only damages the EP’s reputation.”

The anti-Greek delusion Bahceli

It was preceded by the anti-Greek extreme delirium of Tayyip Erdogan’s far-right partner Devlet Bahceli, unleashing incendiary and extreme threats to the Dodecanese and accusing Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of pursuing the

“Turkey is not relinquishing its rights, it will not allow its rights to be violated,” he said. It has responsibilities to international law. In addition, the heart and face of the Dodecanese are facing Turkey! “Whoever touches our vein, we will uproot his heart,” said Bahceli.

The president of the Nationalist Action Party, which co-rules with Erdogan’s party, also personally attacked the Greek prime minister, describing the foreign powers’ instrument “as his grandparents” and making provocations “to create an atmosphere of armed conflict”.

“Mitsotakis, like his grandparents, becomes an instrument of foreign powers and with his actions and rhetoric leads the situation to overflow the glass. Visiting the islands that are in question sovereignty attempts to challenge Turkey and are in front of our noses. “He is trying to make provocations to create a climate of armed conflict if necessary as he wants to make the Aegean the Greek sea,” he said characteristically.

Bahceli’s amok aggravates the insurmountable discomfort of the Turks for the internationalization of the Turkish provocation on the part of Athens and, unable to hide this annoyance, he continued to go crazy, accusing the Greek Prime Minister of returning from country to country showing the map of Paris. complains about Turkey. “He goes from country to country, from island to island showing us his weapons, with the map of the Blue Homeland he complains about our country,” he said.

“Mitsotakis should know that whoever gets on a foreign horse will get off very quickly and it will snow in the mountains he trusts. For us, the homeland is one. Homeland is an honor. There is no difference between sea and land. Break all the enemy hands that will touch her. “Those who want to drown in the Aegean must not stop and come in front of us,” he said characteristically.

In the same inflammatory tone, the representative of the Turkish Ministry of Defense, Boutsu Naric Yokova, lying, reversing the reality and making black and white, also attacked Greece, claiming that “Greece continued the escalating, aggressive rhetoric, provocations and illegal actions. he left unanswered all the calls for dialogue and conversations and continued the baseless accusations “.

He even “ended” it, saying that Greece “continues to outlaw the civilian regime on the islands with its ships and aircraft”, adding that our country committed 953 violations in 2022, both at sea (316 of the warships naval) and in the air (637 of the aircraft), while he also referred to 73 visits to these islands, with 24 of them being made by the Deputy Minister of Defense Nikos Hardalias.