The Turkish president receives criticism from the opposition media for changing his rhetoric towards Greece: “He used to say ‘Mitsotakis is a yoke’, now he calls him his friend”, “he used to say ‘one night we will suddenly come to the islands’, now he says he meant it about the terrorists ».

Fatih Portakal, anchor of HALK TV, commented yesterday: “Erdogan is traveling to Athens tomorrow. As you know, a few years ago there was a proposal that Erdogan repeated. When there were air battles and about the situation of the islands, he said that ‘one night we will come suddenly’. Erdoğan therefore spoke to the important newspaper, Kathimerini. The journalists asked him the question: Mr. President, you say that you will come suddenly one night. What does this mean;’. Erdogan declared that ‘I said this about the terrorists, I did not say it about Greece’. Also Erdogan, who declared that ‘for me, Mitsotakis does not exist’, but now he called him ‘my friend’. After all, we are like the pseudo-maniacs in the neighborhood, or they hear thunder but it doesn’t rain.”

The CNN TURK television network reported: “President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave an interview to the Greek newspaper. Daily. He answered questions from the newspaper ahead of the Supreme Council of Cooperation. There is great interest in both Greece and Turkey regarding Erdogan’s visit. President Erdoğan stated that we have no problem that we cannot solve and spoke of a “new page” in relations.

SOZCU newspaper reports: “We can come one night suddenly or turn one night suddenly”

URRIYET newspaper comments: “I will tell my friend, Kyriakos”, while AKSAM “Erdogan: Greece is not our enemy”.

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Speaking about today’s visit to Athens, the Turkish president stated that “we will strengthen our relations with Greece”.

In detail, the Turkish president said, as reported by Manolis Kostidis: “Tomorrow we will travel to Greece. Then on the 18th of December we will go to Hungary. We will strengthen our cooperation with the countries of the region, starting with our neighbors. Every distance that our country travels in its bilateral relations in the political, diplomatic and economic fields brings one step closer to the Century of Turkey”.

And he continued: “The faith of the West comes from Jerusalem and Nazareth, this philosophy comes from the Aegean and Western Anatolia, its jurisprudence comes from the Mediterranean and Rome, and its science comes from Andalusia and the Eastern world . Only brutality is a value that truly belongs to the West.”

According to a HURRIYET analyst, “the Greek air force is rapidly modernizing with new F-16s and F-35s” and “this is causing concern in Ankara”.

Sendat Ergin notes: “For whatever reason, this plan also appears to be in jeopardy, unless Germany’s hurdle to the Eurofighter market is overcome. On the other hand, serious progress has been made this year in the 4.5 generation modernization program of the Hellenic Air Force. Since last August, the VIPER modernization of the 10th F-16 in the Hellenic Air Force has been completed.

According to a publication in Kathimerini, the modernization of a total of 84 F-16 fighter aircraft with VIPER kits will be completed by 2027.

Greece also applied to the US for the purchase of the fifth generation F-35.

The fact that Greece has begun to make progress in modernizing its air power, while Turkey has yet to take a step due to political problems on the US and German fronts, appears as a matter of concern for decision makers in Ankara.”