A spokesman for Erdogan’s party said the militarization of the Greek islands was a question of sovereignty.
Their baton challenges from Erdogan, Tsavousoglu and Akar was also received yesterday by the representative of the ruling party, Omer Celik noting that the The militarization of the Greek islands is a reason to question the sovereignty.
«The militarization of the islands is a clear violation of the Lausanne and Paris Treaties. So Turkey says that within the framework of the law I will challenge the issue of their sovereignty“, He said in his speech immediately after the meeting of the party committee chaired by the Turkish president.
At the same time, as the SKAI correspondent in Istanbul broadcasts, Omer Celik stressed that Blue Homeland is legalwhile he commented with heavy expressions on speech by Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Congress on Cypruscomparing it with rhetoric of the “extreme right”while characterizing the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 “Peacekeeping operation”.
“The point is that there is the sensitivity of Turkey in the Blue Homeland, the description of the Blue Homeland. While Greece always sees the legal meaning of the Blue Homeland as a threat in the context of its maximalist goals. Mitsotakis went to the Congress and presented “the peace operation of Cyprus” as a threat and as a pain of Hellenism. This is an approach to rhetoric that we see in the far right of Europe“, He stated characteristically.
