New Turkish crescendo despite international de-escalation pressures

By Penelope Galliou

As much as Greece and its allies try to reason with Turkey by calling on it to abandon its tactics of provocations, Ankara insists on the same attitude.of inflammatory statements and false claims, which pushes it further and further away from the west.

Indicative of the behind-the-scenes processes and pressures that Ankara receives to de-escalate the tension and challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean, is the new – phone call this time – communication between the US national security adviser Jake Sullivan and the representative of the Turkish presidency Ibrahim Kalin, just two weeks after their previous meeting in Istanbul. A meeting that obviously did not produce, at the time, the expected results of de-escalation on the part of Ankara, as the day after the meeting Turkey’s agreement was signed with the interim government of Libya for the exploitation of hydrocarbons in the area of ​​reach of the non-existent Turko-Libyan memorandum. During the new communication between the two officials of Turkey and the US as reported by the Turkish side, Ankara’s expectations for the process of approving the request for the supply and modernization of the F-16s by Congress were formulated, while Ibraim Kalin reportedly told Jake Sullivan that Turkey does notwill not hesitate to protect its rights and interests in the Aegean and the Mediterranean by repeating the non-existent accusations against Athens and stating that Greece should put an end to actions and provocative statements that ignore international law.

Despite the pressures exerted on Ankara, the baton of absurdity and reversal of reality was taken up by the representative of the Erdogan party, Omer Celik, targeting for the umpteenth time the Greek prime minister as well as the head of GEETHA and insisting on delusional revisionism, which questions the sovereignty of Greek islands while at the same time being unable to hide the Turkish annoyance with the Greek alliances.

“It is as if the Mitsotakis government came to privatize Greece. He speaks like a governor of a state of other countries, and the head of GETHA of Greece speaks like a sheriff of a state of other countries” he said Omer Celik and continued the anti-Greek crescendo by calling our country to stop militarizing the islands, setting absurd and non-existent conditions. “If they stop militarizing the islands that have a demilitarized status, if they stop harassing our fighters and if they stop their approach to turning the Aegean into a Greek lake, the tension will decrease,” he said.

The spokesman for the Justice and Development party did not fail to show Ankara’s discomfort with Greece’s alliances, repeating threats of an invasion one night. “They say they rely on Western countries, they say they buy armored vehicles, weapons, fighters and behave in a hostile manner against Turkey. Let them look at their history with Turkey. If you get into an aggressive attitude towards us and when you try to show aggressive behavior then the “software” will change and the “we will come suddenly one night” will start,” he repeated. Omer Celik.

In contrast to the Turkish delirium against Greece, Athens insists on walking exclusively on the path of International Law, not following the dead-end Turkish tactic of insults and baseless allegations. As government sources commented, the Greek side will not be drawn into Ankara’s incendiary and threatening tactics and will stubbornly insist on telling Turkey that the only way to solve the problems is International Law and the Treaties that derive from it alone.

The whole government strategy of internationalizing Turkish provocation is based on this context, which, the more it intensifies, the more it strengthens the Greek arguments presented to the international community. “I think that our country with its foreign policy, but also with its general attitude, has managed to make everyone – allies, partners, major powers – understand who is a factor of stability in the region and who, on a rhetorical level and not only, is a factor instability. Turkey must realize that this option and this road is a dead end. The Turkish leadership and the political figures in the neighboring country should leave behind this dead-end tactic” noted the government representative during the briefing of the political editors.

Internationalization by Dendias, Theodorikakos, Mitarakis

In the meantime, Nikos Dendias continues the barrage of information about the Turkish provocative tactics in all his international contacts, with the latest update of his 26 EU counterparts in Luxembourg during the Council of Foreign Ministers, as well as all government officials, such as the Minister of Immigration and Asylum Notis Mitarakis and the Minister of Citizen Protection Takis Theodorikakos, who have informed the UN and the European institutions about the unprecedented sad and shocking incident with the 92 naked migrants in Evros, which was once again inhumanely attempted by the Turkey to instrumentalize with unimaginable brutality practices.

Today, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias has meetings with the representatives of the parliamentary parties, in order to inform them about the current foreign policy issues.

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