In any case, he made it clear that this is a commercial issue and does not create any issue of national sovereignty.
“I am very sorry for what happened, I apologize to those who were upset that this thing happened, but I had absolutely no information, I found out after it happened,” said the Minister of Development and Investment, referring to the issue of the “Turkaegean” brand. , Adonis Georgiades speaking at the First Program with Vassilis Adamopoulos.
‘The subject of’TurkaegeanIt is a much more complicated issue and I would not like to take an easy position because I have also ordered an SAD and I respect the procedures, at least in terms of the possible responsibilities of the Ministry. Development “he added and assured that Greece will proceed with the necessary legal actions to which it is entitled, in order to abolish the registration.
In any case, he made it clear that this is a commercial issue and does not create any issue of national sovereignty.
In fact, he noted that for 25 years now Turkey has been advertising the Turkish Aegean with entries in the Turkish and international press.
“The new thing is that brand-like the brand”Turkaegean‘. Badly. I’m not saying well. I will clarify it and I will do everything to prevent it. I personally or my general secretary, even a director of the Ministry. “Development was unfortunately not informed by the one and only employee who received the signal,” he said.
According to Mr. Georgiadis, in a few days the EDE will be completed and its results, he said, will be made known to the Greek people.
In relation to SYRIZA’s harsh criticism of the Minister of Development, Mr. Georgiadis noted “I am accused by Mr. Tsipras because an official of the Ministry of Development of the Trade Commission, when informed about this request of Turkey, did not inform the political leadership and did not raise red flag. In fact, I should be blamed for that. “
However, he wanted to quote some critical details, as he characteristically said. The signal service with a law under the ministry of Mr. Georgiadis was abolished in April 2021, as he explained and the responsibility was transferred to OBI.
“I was saying then that the service was not working the way I wanted, that there was no electronic protocol and if something went wrong no one could find out. That is what I was saying in Parliament. SYRIZA and PASOK said that the service is fine and why should I hurt it.
The law was passed and the service was abolished. This happened in the transitional period, ie in the period of the transfer of responsibility to OBI, which has been operating since February with electronic protocols and control systems. I still want to be careful, an EDE is open, I do not want to condemn anyone before the process is completed “, added Mr. Georgiadis.
Asked if there is political responsibility, he replied “should there be political responsibility in something I never learned? To take political responsibility, very gladly. Why is a politician accused of political responsibility? Because in the area of ​​responsibility a service does not work properly. Here, in this case, the minister in question had said that the service was not working properly and abolished it “he underlined and repeated” the reason I went to Parliament and abolished it is because this service operated in a way that no one could learn anything if an employee did not do what he did not do in this case “.
Erdogan leaves the Summit “lost”
Mr. Erdogan is “losing”, said Mr. Georgiadis when asked if the President of Turkey finally won the NATO Summit or not. “For two months now, he has been saying that he will veto the accession of Sweden and Finland. His adviser, Mr Kalin, has said that we do not want Madrid to be a landmark. The assessments of the various diplomats were that the veto could not be lifted without serious exchanges from Turkey and we would probably go to the October Summit.
Also, the estimates said that he would come and raise issues of the Aegean, demilitarization of islands, Greek overflights, that he would submit maps that would show that Greece has become illegal in various places. This was the prevailing climate. He is coming to Madrid. In the first 25 minutes, the veto for the accession of the two countries has been lifted. Papala the blackmail. What did it take to lift the veto? He took a memorandum between Sweden and Finland that does not concern us at all, which says that they will speed up the process of extraditing terrorists. Do you see any serious gain from this? That was the whole point, a two-month veto to get the secret services to exchange information on the terrorists? “He also got an expression that Sweden and Finland will not impose an embargo on arms sales,” the minister said.
In connection with Mr. Erdogan’s meeting with the American President, Mr. Georgiadis commented caustically “he finally saw President Biden, he managed to take a photo with him,” a great success “.
More specifically, he pointed out that 4 years ago Turkey took the F-35s in which it was a co-producing country and now it would have received the first 20 if the schedule had been met while Greece was then trying to find a way to upgrade the F-16s to Viper . “5 years later, Greece has the first 6 Vipers in the air and they are being upgraded rapidly and the rest, 83 if I remember correctly, will be done in total. He has taken 6 Rafale and they are getting ready to come next year early next year.
Turkey has managed to lose the F-35s it would have received and received a pledge from President Biden that it would support Congress with its proposal for Turkey to procure upgraded F-16s, the Viper. He received presidential support in Congress for this program. Presidential support in Congress, does that mean Congress will release them? This now has a long way to go, maybe 1-1.5 years in Congress, if it passes, if it is not cut.
In the best case scenario for Turkey, when Greece will have in the air some 20 Rafale and some 20 Viper, then the program will be approved by the Congress to upgrade the first F-16s of Turkey, to have Viper after 5 years »Added the Minister.
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