“Today’s new demonstration of Turkish provocation by President Erdogan, who again spoke of a “Turkish minority” in Thrace facing a clumsy, embarrassed Kyriakos Mitsotakis, confirms the dangers entailed by his IX foreign policy and the doctrine of the given ally that he applies, putting the country’s interests at risk with its systematic yielding. The same applies to his lukewarm reaction to the recent challenge of converting the Monastery of Chora into a mosque,” SYRIZA-PS emphasizes in a statement.

“This meeting, whose importance the Greek government had attempted to downplay, was revealing in terms of the intentions and goals and strategy of the Mitsotakis government. The interests of the country, as derived from international law, are addressed by the government in terms of communication tactics, vote-hunting and maintaining its internal party balances”, notes the official opposition and adds: “Paving the way for the Turkish government to question the sovereignty and sovereign rights of Greece, to gray islands, islets and islets in the Aegean, to violate the Treaty of Lausanne , to bring back the provocative narrative of the “Blue Homeland”, to turn world cultural heritage sites into mosques. And all this against a government that has reduced to a permanent tactic of dealing with Turkish provocation its… degradation, to an ostrich logic”.

“Mr. Mitsotakis himself did not mention anything important. It is an unprecedented fact that he actually gave the “green light” to the Turkish President for the illegal conversion of the Monastery of Chora from a Museum to a mosque, focusing only on issues of public accessibility. A weakened prime minister, unable even to express his displeasure at the provocative protest of the Turkish Ministry of Defense regarding the marine parks announced by the government in the Aegean and Ionian Seas”, SYRIZA continues and concludes:

“SYRIZA-PS stands, as it did as a government, in favor of continuing and maintaining the dialogue, with clear red lines on the basis of international law that serves the interests of Greece and peace in the region, on the basis of a specific strategy with beginning, middle and end. In this direction, we call for the umpteenth time for the Mitsotakis government to move, abandoning its extremely dangerous for our country, concessionary towards Turkey, policy”.