Sources who study Ankara’s tactics, estimate that Ankara is seeking a scenario of tension, mainly targeting the US, which, because of the S-400, has imposed sanctions on its neighbor.
By Penelope Galliou
There is no end to Turkey’s “ingenuity” in its anti-Greece propaganda with the Turkish Ministry of Defense falsely claiming, five days late, that on August 23 Turkish aircraft were harassed by Greece’s Russian-made S-300 air defense system located in Crete and how the S-300 system’s target tracking and missile guidance radar locked on the F-16, which was on a reconnaissance mission 10,000 feet west of Rhodes.
Non-existent claims that were categorically denied by sources in the Ministry of Defense attributing Ankara’s propaganda to the attempt to cultivate impressions at home and abroad.
Sources who study Turkey’s tactics, estimate that the Turks want to create a scene of tension mainly targeting the US, which reminds that – because of the S-400 – they have imposed sanctions on the neighbor.
With today’s leak, the Turkish Ministry of Defense, according to the same sources, cannot be excluded from wanting to present as an argument that Greece has similar technologies to the S-300 that it activates against NATO allied countries. A fact that is categorically rejected by military sources who point out that Greece has had the S300 systems since 1999 and they have not been activated.
The new Turkish claims come in the wake of similar leaks by Ankara, about alleged Greek harassment by trying to involve NATO while, as analysts estimate, Turkish escalation is always aimed at the domestic audience as well.
As the internationalist and ND MP Tasos Hatzivasiliou commented on SKAI TV, “Turkey is once again playing the smear game by accusing Athens of things that have nothing to do with reality. In any case, Greece is a force of responsibility and stability in the Mediterranean. Attempts to create negative impressions about Greece within the NATO alliance always fall on deaf ears. We continue to believe in the value of dialogue, and for the quagmire, Turkey is fully responsible.”
In any case, Turkey’s new propaganda shows in yet another way its desperation due to its isolation from its Western interlocutors, but also its irritation towards the defense and diplomatic power of Greece.
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