Ankara continues to reverse reality and accuse Greece of … violations of Turkish airspace.
By Penelope Galliou
The political leadership of Turkey indulges in an auction of revisionism and extremes, with the two co-governors Tayyip Erdogan and Devlet Bakhceli competing in threats and slanders against Greece. The government partner of Tayyip Erdogan, after the extreme statements of the Turkish president, took the baton and directly and clearly threatened to invade Greece. In particular, commenting on the delirium Erdoğan set the tone for once again, he emphasized that “it is easy to cross the Aegean, our president said it well”.
Every limit was crossed once again by the Turkish propaganda, making black and white about the overflights in the Aegean. Reversing the reality, the Turkish Ministry of Defense spoke of alleged violations of Turkish airspace by Greek fighters. Sources of the Turkish Ministry of Defense, in fact, allegedly leaked specific data based on which Greece allegedly committed 1,616 violations and harassments against Turkish airspace and territorial waters last year, while this number reached 1,123 in just eight months this year. They also persist in the lies about the locking of Turkish fighter jets, claiming that since August 15 the Greek radars supposedly “locked” the Turkish fighters for 3.372 seconds in 14 separate incidents.
In contrast to the Turkish paroxysm, Athens is firmly oriented and cool, insisting on moving exclusively in the orbit of International Law.
As the government representative explained for the umpteenth time on SKAI television, despite Turkey’s attempt to drag Greece into a rhetoric of tension and a policy of absurdity, regarding the status in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean, “Greece in a very stable, very effective, substantial way and at the level of diplomacy and at the level of strengthening our deterrent capacity throughout the previous period, it has shaped a reality such that the force of international conventions and International Law is not shaken in any way.
The argumentation of our country deconstructs step by step in every expression the irrationality of the Turkish side, the ahistorical and non-existent claims, the distortion of history in order to serve its revisionism,” said the government representative.
He also warned Ankara that “Greece has both the political depth and sufficient deterrent power to deal with any provocation. Whether it is rhetorical or of any other nature. And this is absolutely clear to our allies and to the opposite side.” at the same time making special mention of the Greek foreign policy strategy, stating that its success is that it turns these very weapons of Turkish propaganda against it. Everyone knows, in the EU, in NATO, in France, in the USA, in Israel, in the Arab world, that Turkey is a force of revisionism. Greece is a force of stability in the wider region, it does not provoke, but at the same time it is adamant regarding its national sovereignty and sovereign rights” he reminded.
Greek spotlights are focused on Tayyip Erdoğan’s tactic of revitalizing his nationalist audience with verbal outbursts, and on semiotic references to two historical crimes that burden Ankara, such as Attila’s invasion of Cyprus and the destruction of Smyrna. Hence, Athens’ alert alert is never “disarmed” as there may be an assessment that Ankara has been moving at these extreme rates for many weeks, perhaps due to the Asia Minor Disaster celebrations, but almost the same rhetoric continues for months , and cannot be ignored.
In addition, it is a given that Greece – in addition to internationalizing the Turkish provocations at every opportunity and from every “international step” – will also insist on the institutional information of our allies and partners, for the notification of the ongoing and escalating Turkish delinquency and provocative rhetoric of of the last few days, in order to make it clear who is dynamiting the cohesion of the alliance in a particularly dangerous period. At the same time, it will continue to remind our country’s role as a pillar of stability and security in the wider region of the Eastern Mediterranean, always respecting and observing the rules of International Law and the Law of the Sea.
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