By Penelope Galliou
Boiling cauldron reminds Turkeyby Tayyip Erdogan to desperately look for ways to vent his unfavorable inner position “exporting” the crisis, against Greece and the Greek Prime Minister and those who support the commonly acknowledged upgraded international position of our country. An unprecedented coordinated escalation emanating from Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s trip to Washington, the top contacts he had and the positive footprint he brought. An orchestrated attack that has already crossed the borders and the differences between Greece and Turkey and managed to provoke a chain of international reactions from State Department to the Commission.
In Turkish delirium, which is expressed verbally with unethical face-to-face attacks, but also in the field, with violations and re-employment of the immigrant but also with the operation of new aggravation in the Aegean with anti-naftex in a planned Greek exercise, Greece stands with calmness and constant diplomatic and operational vigilance. Greek readiness is reflected in specific moves in the field of information of both the EU and NATO and the UN faithful to the principles of international law and the rules governing international law. While he maintains in every direction that Greece is not going to follow the path of aggravation chosen by Ankara.
The domino of escalation
The crescendo of aggression shown by Tayyip Erdogan against our country and Kyriakos Mitsotakis after the trip to the USA, continued yesterday and the nationalist government partner of the Turkish President, Nevlet Bahceli, fired at Kκουtτάr Μηs
The Turkish politician said about the Greek prime minister that he “aspires to become the pawn of the West”, while he exceeded all limits, talking about “historical rupture” and “dishonorable weakness”, characterizing, in fact, Kyriakos Mitsotakis as insidious and cowardly as his grandparents “. Extremes that stem as he admitted with his position from the successful presence of the Greek Prime Minister in the US Congress. “The Greek prime minister’s speech to the US Congress was applauded 37 times in 42 minutes, ten of which were standing. We do not know what the deputies found in Mitsotakis’s speech, but if we know anything it is that they met in common ground against Turkey,” he said. unable to hide his discomfort.
He also referred to the Cyprus issue, provocatively claiming and telling everyone that “Cyprus is and will remain Turkish” while insisting on Turkey’s position for resolving the Cyprus issue on the basis of two states, unabashedly accusing the Greek Cypriots of atrocities and torture and falsifying history once again. . “No matter how much Prime Minister Mitsotakis opposes, there is no other way out in Cyprus than the two-state solution, which will be based on sovereignty and equality. The will of Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots is in this direction. Or they will willingly accept it. “When will this goal become a reality? When will Mitsotakis remember the massacres, bloody attacks, atrocities and tortures against the Turkish Cypriots? (…) The fate of Cyprus is not Greek rule, but Turkish rule,” he said.
Bahceli insisted – according to the popular tactics of the Turks – to distort reality by accusing Greece of provocative policies, reversing what is happening years now in the Aegean! “The Turkish nation will resist to the end the policy of harassment and provocations of Greece and will stand under any circumstances against the attackers in the Mediterranean and the Aegean,” he stressed.
New escalation in the field as well
In parallel with the delusional verbal attacks, Ankara proceeded yesterday to another direct challenge to the Greek sovereign rights as the hydrographic station of Turkey issued an illegal Navtex with which it sends the research vessel Yunuz to the heart of the Aegean. According to the illegal Navtex, Junuz will be sent to an area between Ai Strati, Lemnos, Lesvos and Chios. A strategic move that adds fuel to the fire of the tensions of the last days.
We will not fall into the trap of Turkey
In this delirium of aggression and distortion of reality and history, Athens is watching calmly and as Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias clearly stated the country’s position, Athens will not fall into the trap of aggravation that Turkey is trying to impose.
In an interview with SKAI radio on the occasion of the new frenzy of Tayyip Erdogan, Mr. Dendias clarified that “We are not going to fall into the trap of escalation at the choice of our interlocutor. If the Greek government deems it necessary to intensify, it will “It exacerbates because it judged it, not because the other side forced it. I think there is no reason for us to respond in the same way or enter into a litigation process.”
Explaining Ankara’s orchestrated aggression against Greece, Mr. Dendias said: “This behavior of Turkey is the absolute documentation of the Greek arguments. That is, the fact that we are threatened. That the casus belli against Greece is not empty. “Greece is facing a threat from Turkey. You understand that dialogue with a regime of constant arrogance and insults has a difficulty. To put it as elegantly as I can.”
The message of power of the Minister of National Defense
In this climate, the Minister of National Defense, Nikos Panagiotopoulos, sent a message to Ankara about the deterrent power of our country’s Armed Forces but also about the expansion of Greece’s international alliances with a defense footprint. The Minister of National Defense also sent a message to Ankara. “Today, the Armed Forces are, through their constitutional role and mission, a guarantor of the territorial integrity of our country, which is the condition for the full functioning of our democracy,” he said, reminding at the same time that the country strengthens the already capable and deterrent Armed Forces of the country, on the other hand expands our international alliances with a defense, above all, imprint.
The international reactions to the Turkish “amok” against Greece
The Commission sent a strong message to Ankara about its inflammatory attitude, warning that respect for neighbors and the strengthening of good neighborly relations are the basis for constructive cooperation with the European Union. Asked by Greek journalists, Deputy Commissioner Dana Spinand said: “On the issue of relations with Turkey and de-escalation, I can say that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is the leader of an EU government, which is recognized as such. from all over the world.
As repeatedly emphasized by the European Union (European Council) (March and June 2021 EUCO conclusions), Turkey is expected to make a constructive commitment to the EU and its Member States and to take steps to de-escalate. “Respect for our neighbors and the strengthening of good neighborly relations are the basis for constructive cooperation with the European Union,” he concluded.
The State Department also referred to the unprovoked tension on the part of Turkey and to Erdogan’s extreme statements against Kyriakos Mitsotakis. “We continue to encourage all NATO members, including Greece and Turkey, to work together to maintain peace and stability in the region, to resolve their differences diplomatically and to avoid increasing rhetoric,” he said. further the tension “he said characteristically.
Challenging Erdogan inside Turkey
Erdogan’s provocative policy comes under fire from within, with the mayor of Izmir ousting the Turkish president during his meeting with Athens mayor Costas Bakoyannis. “We want to improve our relations and we know very well that cities can only be friends or brothers, so we want to improve these relations for our people and for our future,” said Toud Sawyer, while Mr. Bakoyannis Condemning the provocation, Erdogan called on his counterpart to take another step. “We can not allow Erdogan to hold hostage the relations between our two peoples. We must strive for stability, for peace and we, the local authorities, must do it from the bottom up, building bridges,” said the mayor of Athens. .
Due to the aggressive crescendo of Erdogan
It is a common secret, however, that “every time the Turkish president feels that the Greek prime minister is one step ahead of him, he reacts in this way personally”, commented the internationalist, ND MP Tassos Hadjivassiliou, emphasizing that Greece will continue to defend its strong national law “even this does not like Mr. Erdogan” because as he explained “we have a policy of principles and positions, we have strong alliances, we are based on international law and we are not going to enter into the logic of rhetorical confrontation with the Turkish leadership”.
However, according to experts and analysts, the Turkish frenzy, apart from the discomfort caused by Mitsotaki’s trip to the USA, is due to a series of other events that prove the international and geopolitical upgrade of our country, such as the energy hub launched in Alexandroupolis, the US base. same city, the international alliances of Greece in the Eastern Mediterranean with economic and energy impact and of course the unfavorable internal environment of Turkey. A country that is “impoverished” day by day and financially plagued by three-digit -now- inflation, that the role of mediator in the war Russia-Ukraine and the relevant bargains with the West did not “come out” to Tayyip Erdogan, relations with America They remain frozen, like any talk of upgrading the country, and now the Turkish president has to play to the last card, in his desperate attempt to persuade at home the paper of his nationalism, his blue homeland and his Ottoman bigotry, may he succeed. to raise its popularity a little, which is falling dangerously and self-destructively, in view of the 2023 elections.
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