Shortly before the Mitsotakis-Erdogan meeting, the vice president of Turkey, Cevdet Yilmaz, made new provocative statements, bringing the Turkish-Libyan memorandum and the “Blue Homeland” back to the fore.
The Turkish-Libyan memorandum and the “Blue Homeland” brings Turkey back to the fore after the new provocative statements made yesterday by the vice president of Turkey, Cevdet Yilmaz. According to what the SKAI correspondent broadcasts from Istanbul, Manolis Kostidis these statements that i.e “Libya is a neighboring country in the Blue Homeland” are a confirmation of Turkey’s support for the Turkish-Libyan memorandum.
“Yesterday there was a great disaster, from floods in Libya in our “Blue Homeland” our neighbor Libya. There are many dead and injured. We immediately took all kinds of measures to show that we are with the brotherly people of Libya and all measures were taken to send our aircraft to help. No one has the power to harm this relationship. We will move forward together” said Cevdet Yilmaz.
According to the SKAI correspondent, in the meeting that will take place between Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the two leaders will try to take many serious steps for the relationship between the two countries, but Turkey will sit at the table with a specific attitude, the Turkish-Libyan memorandum.
Turkish analysts: We will deal with whatever Rafale the Greeks buy”
At the same time, the attitude of Turkish analysts who comment that “Whatever Rafales the Greeks buy, we will deal with them with the Siper anti-aircraft system.”
They also state that “with our anti-aircraft systems we will lock the Aegean, not even a bird will fly” promoting a rhetoric which, as reported by the SKAI correspondent, did not exist after the great earthquake in Turkey and is now resurfacing again.
“The system. Siper creates a large area of air defense, which you cannot do with other systems. . This anti-aircraft system was placed in the Aegean, two such systems, not a single bird will fly in the Aegean. If you want to buy as many Rafale fighters as you can, buy both the one weapon and the other. Hundreds or thousands!” said the military analyst, Mete Jarar.
Anger in Turkey over Biden and the US
The same time anger prevails in Turkey about the American president, Joe Biden. The messages from the US about the F-16s are not positive, the SKAI correspondent reports, since as they claim “they are not giving us either the F-35s or the F-16s while they are supporting the Greeks and equipping the Aegean”.
Speaking on a TV show, the academic, Mesut Haki Jasin said: “There was a balance between Greece and Turkey 7 to 10. and it has changed. the US does not give spare parts for weapons. Every day they point the finger at us. On the other hand, you decide to lift the arms embargo on the Greek Cypriots. Along with Alexandroupoli and 20 other bases, they are arming and militarizing the Aegean, which means there is a bad intention,” said the academic, Mesut Haki Jassin.
“They tell us, ‘We don’t give you the F-35s.’ because you got the ‘S-400”. Yes, but you didn’t give us the Patriots. You gave Greece weapons, they have the S-300. They tell us that with the S-400 we will gather data and give it to the Russians,” he concludes.
Source: Skai
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