President of Pomaks: The Aegean islands have been Greek for 3,000 years – Erdogan is a fanatic like Mussolini

“The Aegean islands have been Greek for 3,000 years, inhabited by Greeks from the Aegean and Asia Minor. “The Turks came in 1071 and then for the first time they saw the Aegean and today they are getting up to claim it after so many years, they want to claim the Greek islands”, said o President of the Panhellenic Pomak Association, Imam Ahmet and director of the Pomak newspaper Zagalissa, speaking at the First Program.

In fact, he sent it himself open letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accusing him of hypocrisywith Ankara’s request for demilitarization of the islands at the forefront, which in fact connects it with the issue of Greek sovereignty.

“We say no to these threats and he even asks him if he would send his children to fight. Would he send them to be killed? Τplease stop because parents, mothers and fathers will cry from both parts of the Aegean. There will be dead and refugees “he said characteristically.

He explains that he wrote this letter because “Recently, Mr. Erdogan complains that he is surrounded and besieged in the Balkans, the Caucasus and the Middle East, and threatens to intervene. It launches threats to the Greek islands, calls for demilitarization and links it to sovereignty. It’s facing the Aegean army, thousands of soldiers, the same is true in northern Syria and northern Iraq. He threatens and he says he is threatened. It directly threatens the islands of the Eastern Aegean and Kastelorizo».

«It threatens a part of Greece’s maritime sovereignty. Threatens to land. And he has both his amphibious army and his navy. That’s why I had to send him this letter and tell him that he invokes international law, but he does not apply international law. Imbros and Tenedos have special status, according to Article 14 of the Treaty of Lausanne. He has never applied it, never. He refers to the Treaty of Lausanne, and I write to him that other times were then and others are today“, Underlined Mr. Ahmet

He even asks the Turkish president about does not apply Article 14 of the Lausanne Treaty on Imbros and Tenedos which were Greek islands and had to have some special autonomy to be governed accordingly. “They were purely Greek islands given under that treaty,” he recalled.

«And above all, we Pomaks do not want to become refugees again. We do not want to become refugees again in the 21st century. 100 years ago thousands of Pomaks were massacred and persecuted, expelled and today many live in Turkey, even in Syria“, He added with obvious emotion.

«Our government, our ministers must emphasize these, shout them. It is not my job. I just remind him that he is not implementing the Treaty and he demands that we implement it“, write down.

According to the president of the Pomaks, Mr. Erdogan «he is now going to become the only Turkish “father” like Kemal Ataturk. To take his place. One abolished the Ottoman Empire and founded the Turkish Republic, he is now founding the new Ottoman Empire. Well, he will not pass this, we will not let him pass “, he continued, reminding that Mussolini also made threats and said words like a fanatic. “Let him leave us alone,” he clarified.

«The Turkish president is using the wrong “measure”. This is not a threatening way, but he will eat his face, do not be upset. The Turkish people will not let him do these things. I believe that in the upcoming elections he will go home“, Assessed Mr. Ahmet.

In addition, the president of the Panhellenic Association of Pomaks, assured that the Turkish people want to live peacefully with the Greek. “People have nothing to share, only governments have differences, like Erdogan who wants to be world leaders, equal to Putin and Biden. “None of this is, his idea is,” he said characteristically.