“Our inspiration is the slogan that says ‘I will include islands, Western Thrace and Thessaloniki in Turkey,'” said Erdogan’s government partner. Devlet Bakhcelirevealing his doctrine, as transmitted from Constantinople by Manolis Kostidis.

Speaking to his party’s parliamentary group yesterday, Bakhceli said: “Our line is the line drawn by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who hung like a medal around the neck of history the words: ‘My only honor and my only wealth in life is nothing but Turkism. One of our sources of inspiration is the chant ‘God willing, I will take back Mosul and Kirkuk and the islands if I am worthy and I will include Western Thrace, including Thessaloniki, in the borders of Turkey’. And as the beloved Atatürk said again, ‘the Turk is the lightning, the hurricane, the sun that illuminates the world’.

Targeting the Ecumenical Patriarch

Continuing, Bakhtseli also said that “there will be no Ecumenical Patriarch, nor a city named ‘Constantinopolis’.” There will be no second Vatican, the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque has driven the enemies mad.”

“Another unacceptable issue is the invitation of the Roman Patriarch Phanarios to the summit, calling him the ‘Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople’ and his signature on the final declaration. The Ukraine Peace Summit deliberately ignored the law of the Turkish Republic’s sovereignty and the relevant provisions of the Lausanne Treaty.

There is no city named ‘Constantinopolis’ within the borders of the Republic of Turkey. Universal title has no validity and legalization. Those who claim otherwise are all fans of Byzantium. And raging enemies of the Muslim Turkish nation. No one has the power to turn Constantinople into a second Vatican. Constantinople, the legacy of our conquest, is also the epitome of our national and spiritual honor. The restoration of Hagia Sophia to its original mosque form and its opening for worship to Muslims has frightened many circles and driven everyone crazy since that day,” Bakhceli added.

Erdoğan: “One foot of our state we fix in Anatolia, with the other we embrace the whole earth”

“Our state was founded on the remains of an empire that ruled over three continents”

ERDOGAN: “A state like Turkey, founded on the remains of a world empire that ruled three continents and seven climates, no one has the power to trap in the shallow waters of racist, lumpen fascism. We will not accept attempts to damage our country’s economy, tourism, barrier and public diplomacy. With the global vision that Mevlana designed, with the metaphorical concept of diabetes, so will we, we will continue to fix one foot of our state in Anatolia and with the other to embrace the whole earth”.

Turkish NAVTEX “within the Turkish continental shelf, area south of Rhodes and east of Crete”

Ankara’s reaction to the telecommunications cable laying project between Israel, Cyprus, Italy.

Ankara’s reaction to Cyprus’ NAVTEX.