The neighbors “escaped”… “Mitsotakis threatens Turkey and with war” Turkish media reports. They accuse the Greek prime minister of being too hard on Turkey, of dealing with Turkey in a harsh way, because he said that “if necessary we will use the armed forces again”, i.e. the same logic with the demilitarization of the islands by the Turkish government and Defense Minister Yasar Guler, reports SKAI’s Istanbul correspondent Manolis Kostidis.

“Greece is an expansive and revisionist country, not Turkey, and Mitsotakis is to blame for that. Arms Greece, prepares Greece for war” Turkish media claim.

“When there is a threat to our sovereign rights, to our national integrity as in 2020, obviously the armed forces will be mobilized, either in the Evros or in the Aegean, which is a point that touches our sovereign rights… This was the statement of the prime minister and this still applies. We don’t have expansive moods, in the neighbor there are distorted interpretations, obviously to serve an internal audience” The Deputy Minister of Defense responded to SKAI and the program Today Giannis Kefalogiannis.

The controversial Mitsotakis statement

“Let’s agree that we can disagree in a civilized way (s.s. Greece and Turkey). This is important because I have also managed times when the Armed Forces were on alert. And, obviously, if necessary we would do it again, but we hope we don’t have to and I think everyone will agree on that.” it was the prime minister’s controversial statement that upset Ankara in an interview with To Vima newspaper. Mr. Mitsotakis had spoken of a large investment in the Armed Forces.

For “predominance of the Turks in the Eastern Mediterranean” mentions at the same time a front-page article of the newspaper Turkiye. Turkish analysts specifically reported that “after Syria we must also sign an agreement with Egypt”, essentially... discounting a Turkey-Syria agreement on the EEZ.

Turkiye’s front page: