New provocative statements were made today by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoλουlu, once again questioning the sovereignty of the Greek islands.
“America has always pursued a balanced policy on the issue of Cyprus, the Eastern Mediterranean and Turkey-Greece relations. We remind them not to upset this balance. “, Said the Turkish Foreign Minister.
“If we evaluate it from the point of view of Greece, it is trying to spend money on weapons in an irrational way. However, when we look at its economy, the Greek economy can not stand this. When we look at their reasons, they mainly say “threat from Turkey”. “But the threat is Greece itself,” he added.
Tsavousoglu even referred to Turkey’s latest letter to the UN, in which Turkey said that “if Greece violates the status of these demilitarized islands and does not back down, the sovereignty of these islands will be discussed.”
“We are now opening it up for discussion and we are determined on this issue. “Its sovereignty is being discussed here, since it is not acting in accordance with the agreement,” Tsavousoglou said.
In addition, he said Turkey would step up its efforts to “take the necessary steps on this issue”.
“Some of these islands were given by the Treaty of Lausanne and some by the 1947 agreement by the Italians, but on the same terms. “Finally, I try to say that lately the Greek Prime Minister and the Greek Foreign Minister have been making provocative statements every day,” Tsavousoglou said.
“They want to increase the tension in the Aegean. In the past, the prime minister was a little more sensible. He did not follow the provocative steps of the Foreign Minister. “Probably he came to the line of Nikos Dendias and the prime minister for reasons of domestic policy”, he added. “Instead of trying to squeeze us into believing something nonsense like the ‘map of Seville’, instead of provocative rhetoric and actions like ‘we will extend the territorial waters to 12 miles, but there is Casus Belli’ if there was an understanding of ‘two neighbors’.” “Everything would be very different,” said the Turkish Foreign Minister.
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