New challenges from Turkey’s Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, who is calling for the sharing of the wealth of the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean, while warning that Ankara will not allow a fait accompli and will not allow its rights to be violated.

As the SKAI correspondent broadcasts from Istanbul, Manolis Kostidis, o Hulusi Akar he said: “Let us start the process with dialogue, with meetings with peaceful methods so as to create an environment of peace and tranquility in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean, to share the wealth in a fair way and for both sides to live with prosperity and joy.

This is our wish and desire. We repeat it. But don’t see this as our weakness. We have not and will not allow our rights to be violated. We will not allow any fait accompli. And don’t see that as a threat.”

Erdogan on economy: God willing…

New appeal to the higher powers by the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoganwho said he is getting instructions from God, this time about the Turkish economy.

“If God wills we will increase we will increase our foreign exchange reserves as in the past” he said.

Erdogan said: “Those in the opposition are taking instructions from the terrorists who are on Mount Qandil. From the terrorists. While we receive instructions from God and from our people. This is our difference. Until today, this is how we have done it and this is how we will continue. To those who want to hand over the economy of our country to the usurers of London and the technocrats of the IMF, our people answered them and said to them, ‘Get out of here, get out’.”

And he added: “When I was prime minister at one point our foreign exchange reserves reached up to 135 billion dollars. If God wills, we will reach these levels, because we are determined.”

There was no shortage of reports in the Turkish press about the political developments in Greece and today’s swearing-in of the caretaker prime minister, Ioannis Sharma.