A provocative message from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who stated that “with May 19th we took the first step of victory” referring to Genocide of Pontian Hellenism.

“We put it again in the stamp of Islam in these territories, we defeated the imperialist forces,” he added Erdoganas Manolis Kostidis reports from Constantinople.

“May 19, 1919 is the best example. Just 106 years ago we took the first step on the road of victory, after the whole world watches him with jealousy where we released the chains of our captivity, we led to defeat the imperialist forces, in these territories we put the stamp of Islam again. The flame of independence, which lit on May 19, 1919, spread throughout Anatolia. And in the end this struggle was successfully crowned with the struggle of our peoples and our young people. “

If there is gas or oil in the Black Sea or the Mediterranean, we will find it, the Turkish Minister of Energy said and added that drilling in Libya, Somalia, Pakistan, Azerbaijan.

Alpslan Bayraktar said: “If there is anything, we say we will find it. It can be in the depths of the Black Sea, it may be in the depths of the Mediterranean, it can be below the Gabar Mountain, it can be in Diyarbakir, it can be in Thrace. We will look for these and find them.

“But I will say something else, as Turkey, now we are conducting a very important energy diplomacy and putting signatures on very important energy projects.

“From Pakistan to Somalia, from Somalia to Libya, from Libya to Iraq, from Iraq to Azerbaijan, which you love so much we are already actively involved in some projects in these countries, ie almost 50% of our production within Turkey abroad.

“In other words, we have a production of almost 200,000 barrels, which is half of the oil and gas we produce with Burat, and we have an external production of 100,000 – 110,000 barrels. This reduces our dependence on abroad. “