Provocative recital on Saturday by the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as, as reported by Manolis Kostidis, he spoke about the Turkey of the “National Oath” with territories from Bulgaria, Greece and Iraq as well as Syria.

“We will not look at the tears of anyone who has aspirations in our country. We will not tolerate anyone who tries against our country. We will not allow any intervention even in the 782 thousand square kilometers of the territories of our homeland, nor in the geography of the National OathTayyip Erdoğan said according to the SKAI correspondent in Istanbul.

Various versions of the borders of the Turkish Republic according to the Oath:

The Turkish National Oath (Turkish: Misakı Milli) is a six-point declaration passed by the last Ottoman parliament in the early 1920s, citing the decisions of the Turkish nationalist assemblies in Erzurum and Sebastien.

The oath set the borders of the future Turkish Republic, based on the recent borders of the Ottoman Empire, defeated in World War I, including, among others, “the areas of Kirkuk, Thessaloniki, Aleppo and Mosul”.

The main lines of the Oath were formulated in the national Congress of Erzurum (Erzurum Kongresi, July 22 – August 7, 1919) and the equivalent of Sebastia (Sivas Kongresi, September 4-11, 1919), of the Turkish National Movement and Mustafa Kemal.

The reports of the Oath

The terms of the Turkish national oath are:

  • The future of the areas that were inhabited by a majority of Arabs at the time of the signing of the Mudros Armistice will be determined by referendum. Those areas which were not under the occupation of the allies at the time of the signing of the armistice and had a Turkish-Muslim majority constitute the homeland of the Turkish nation.
  • The future of the regions of Kars, Ardahan and Vatum will be determined by a referendum.
  • The status of the region of Western Thrace will be determined by the vote of its inhabitants.
  • The safety of Constantinople and the Sea of ​​Marmara should be ensured. The regime of free movement of products as well as transport through the Bosphorus Straits and the Dardanelles will be determined between Turkey and the other states concerned.
  • Minority rights will be ensured on the basis of reciprocity of Muslim minority rights in neighboring countries.
  • With the goal of developing the country at every level, its freedom and independence should be ensured, which will be achieved by removing every obstacle in the economic, political and legal fields.

Although the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923 annuls the Turkish national oath, yet Turkey’s modern foreign policy seems to revive it along with Turkish nationalism. Alexandretta (annexed by disputed referendum in 1939) and occupied Cyprus are within the borders of the Turkish national oath, as are the territories of foreign and sovereign states in which Turkey is currently operating without their consent (Iraq, Syria). As far as the Greek territories are concerned, western Thrace, the Dodecanese and the whole of Cyprus are included in the boundaries of the revived Turkish national oath.

With information from wikipedia