Distortion of history once again by the Turkish president, in order to serve his revisionism. Decisive response from Athens.
By Penelope Galliou
A message of determination and readiness to defend the rights of Greece from any Turkish propaganda and distortion of reality and history, the government representative sent, responding to Tayyip Erdogan’s new delirium against our country.
“Mr. Erdogan has chosen to distort history to serve his revisionism. Greece, on the contrary, in its centuries-long course, is writing history. History of which we are proud, since Greece excels with its culture and achievements Greece, whenever necessary, knows very well how to defend its rights with vigor and efficiency”answered Mr. Giannis Oikonomou to the crescendo of the Turkish president.
A little earlier, with his eyes fixed on Turkey’s domestic audience and with his bigotry “flaring up” on the occasion of the anniversary of the Asia Minor Disaster, the Tayyip Erdogan returned to extreme aggravation, with nationalist crowns and direct attack on the Greeks, once again trashing history.
In his speech in Kyutachia to mark the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor Disaster, the Turkish president vented his anger on the Greeks using derogatory terms such as “infidels and scoundrels” and unleashed new threats against Greece. “With his heart full of faith, this nation threw the unbelieving Greeks into the sea of Smyrna”, Erdogan said, arguing that “the fact that while the enemy was retreating, they were burning all our cities, is proof of how vile they are in their character. Just like today,” he said among other things.
According to Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish offensive that started from Kocadepe and Tumlu Bunar and continued to Izmir was the first major offensive operation of the Turkish army in a long time. “The enemy had many machine guns, cars, cannons and airplanes. But our soldier’s heart full of faith compensated for all these shortcomings. While the Greek army was withdrawing, 65% of its 200 thousand soldiers remained as casualties in Keutachia and Afyon Karahisar”. The “ultimate goal,” he added, was reached on September 9.
“Our nation tore up the treaties of Sevres in these lands and threw them in their faces. We declared to the whole world with this revolt that the Turk cannot be captured. Our nation has shown once again to friend and foe that it is determined to protect his eternal homeland”, Erdogan added.
Where is Erdogan going?
However, the Greek government and analysts were already expecting a new nationalist outburst from the Turkish president and his government officials, primarily because of the black anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe, which “rekindles” the extreme discourse, acts as reinforcement for the “neo-Ottoman dream” and of course in keeping the extreme nationalists who with him their leader Devlet Makhceliare currently a strong support for the weak Erdogan government.
Besides, the internal situation in Turkey and especially the conditions in the economy, with the Turkish lira collapsing, inflation having soared to triple digits and poverty depriving Turkish citizens of the basics, do not leave much room for triumphalism to Tayyip Erdogan during the pre-election period which has already started, since the polls are expected to be held in 2023.
The “difficult neighbor”
In this climate, Mr Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias had a brief “social” greeting with This Ukrainian counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu, on the sidelines of the strategic meeting of more than 25 European foreign ministers on the challenges facing Europe, in Slovenia. In a highly inventive way, Mr. Dendias expressed to his colleagues the his discomfort with Turkey and the instability it causes in the wider Mediterranean region. “I was smiling because I was thinking about one of my best dreams in the last three months. One night I fell asleep and I thought how I was the Foreign Minister of Luxembourg, so it was so nice. And then I woke up and I was still the Foreign Minister of Greece where I have to be next to a difficult neighbor, Turkey with complete instability in the Mediterranean and I have to talk to you about the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. So the challenges we might face are many. If you start thinking about what might happen, you really won’t go for sleep. What we have to do is think in an optimistic way” said the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Erdoğan and Akar are in trouble
T. continued the propaganda against Greece, turning white into blackurk Minister of Defense Hulusi Akar, in an equally abusive style and with false allegations. “In the Aegean, the bad neighbor is constantly harassing us. Let me say clearly that we do not do any harassment, if they do not do to us. This applies to the Navy, the Air Force and the Army. What we are doing is that we will not allow encroachment on our rights. We will not allow any donees. That’s for sure” he claimed.
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