“We will not enter into a sterile confrontation of statements,” Athens emphasizes.
With coordinated diplomatic moves and cool handling, Athens responds to barrage of challenges from the Turkish side both through media reports and statements by high-ranking Turkish officials, most recently Mevlüt Tsavousoglu from the occupied.
Diplomatic sources commented on ERT that Greece has rejected with legal arguments based on International Law all Turkish objections. “We will not enter into a sterile confrontation of statements. “We have responded with maps and letters to all the Turkish accusations,” they said.
“Greece is crying in the international community”
Earlier, the Turkish minister once again accused our country of violating international law. “Greece, which engages in demagogy, dishonest rhetoric, can not give a legal answer to Ankara’s letters” (s.s. to the UN), the Turkish Foreign Minister claimed.
“Greece is crying in the international community that we will attack it “he claimed.
He argued that Greece has nothing to gain through hostility to Turkey and called it unacceptable to lobby the United States to prevent the United States from supplying F-16 fighters to Turkey.
#Canlı📡#KKTC Cumhurbaşkanı Sayın Ersin Tatar ile Ortak Basın
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– Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (@MevlutCavusoglu) June 13, 2022
“We do not expect the Greek prime minister or any other Greek prime minister to praise us in the European Union. We do not have such an expectation. We have never had a lobby for Greece. They do not need to be comforted by such nonsense.” “We are in favor of cooperation, not tension. We are fully committed to protecting our rights,” he said.
Regarding the Cyprus issue, he insisted that “a two-state solution is needed in Cyprus. “Negotiations must begin between two equal sovereign states.”
Turkey and the TRNC will also evaluate the steps they can take at the diplomatic and political levels, Tsavousoglu said.
“According to our common vision, we will continue to defend our national cause together,” Tsavousoglou tweeted.
