“Turkey’s goal was not the hot episodes, but to drag us into a dialogue with all the material – even on the sovereignty of Greek islands – with tactics similar to the one it had followed in 1998-99 with Syria”
“I’m afraid of the mistake. A wrong move, a collision, anything with the prevailing nerves, with the interception of planes running at speeds of hundreds of kilometers, it is easy to lead to a mistake”, said the Deputy Minister of Education and Professor of International Law and Foreign Policy, Angelos Syrigos, speaking in the First Program 91.6 and 105.8 for developments in the Greek-Turkish field.
Asked about the possibility of Turkey seeking a heated episode with Greece within the next year, Mr. Syrigos pointed out that this is not the goal of the neighboring country.
“Her goal is to draw us into a dialogue about all the matter. And when I say about everything, I mean even about the sovereignty of Greek islands. At the moment, in order to achieve this, he has no reason to make a hot episode, anything else, but he is following a tactic similar to the one he had followed in 1998-99 with Syria”, he added.
“Syria then hosted Öcalan on its territory. There had been strong reactions from Turkey. Syria did not back down and then Turkey for 7-8 months started making such statements, conducting military exercises near the Turkish-Syrian border, transferring forces from other regions, giving the impression that it was only a matter of time before the intervention inside Syria . Syria, seeing what was happening, expelled Ocalan. I think it follows a similar logic. That is, the hot episode is not the goal. The heated episode also has risks, because it is not certain when he messes with Greece, which of the two will lose”, explained the professor of International Law.
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