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In situation nervous crisis is the Anchor after the trip and the top contacts of Kyriakos Mitsotakis in the USA, with the result that the Turkish leadership from Erdogan to his ministers, unleashed multiple and repeated attacks.
Greece is central to Ankara, which came to the fore dynamically and further strengthened its international presence after the Prime Minister’s visit to the American capital.
In “parallel circles“Turkey has also positioned Greece’s allies with the United States first, mainly due to their stance on Greek-Turkish relations and the positive approach they showed to Greek positions during Mr. Mitsotakis’s trip to Washington, as well as NATO. , due to the request of Finland and Sweden to join the alliance, for which Ankara, in its favorite tactic, tries to exhaust its oriental bazaars, gaining as many benefits as possible.
The same time the Greek side is currently reaping the fruits of its contacts on the other side of the Atlantic, confirming – even from the range of Turkish reactions – that it has returned dynamically to the world stage – and insisting in all directions that we are a country that designs its own policy based on its national interests. «We are doing what is necessary to strengthen the deterrent power of our Armed Forces as a whole and to discourage aspirations and intrigues from wherever they come from.Was the message of the Minister of Defense Nikos Panagiotopoulos after his return from the USA.
Ankara’s attack is naughty
The irritation and embarrassment of Turkey from the presence of the Greek Prime Minister in Washington is so great that even the attack launched against our country shows “naughty”after the Turkish leadership seeks to raise any issue it deems to affect Greece, with Tayyip Erdogan remembering Greece’s debt and Mevlüt Tsavousoglou unable to hide his annoyance at the warm applause the Greek prime minister received in the US Congress.
«See what is happening with Greece. It owes the West 400 billion euros, but they also give it weapons and approval in the US to build bases. On the other hand, when they meet with us, they say: “We want to develop the relationship with you”. But he says that in Cyprus he does not see positively the solution of the two states. So who told you that we will see positively what you say; » said Tayyip Erdogan in a desperate attempt to present Greece as an insolvent country.
This is in line with the suggestions made by Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay and Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoγlu to the US Congress. for the applause received by the Greek Prime Minister during his speech in Congress but also the understanding shown by the American leadership in what Kyriakos Mitsotakis set in the USA. overall for the situation in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean.
«I told my counterpart Blinken that they always kept the balance in the Cyprus issue and in the policies of Turkey and Greece. I told him that lately they have lost that balance“Were the words of Mevlüt ÇavuÅŸo .lu, who stated that he conveyed to his American counterpart Anthony Blinken during their meeting.
Shots, to which the Greek Minister of Defense responded Nikos Panagiotopoulos speaking on SKAI radio, pointing to Turkey as responsible for the “imbalance” in the wider region of the Eastern Mediterranean. «The balance is disturbed and the security environment and stability are disturbed by the attitudes of Turkey that have developed recently. And it is not only a bilateral problem for Greece, but it is a problem that is recognized as a problem by all partners in the region” he said. After all, the Turkish idiots and the Turkish bazaars have become widely known both from Ankara’s stance on the Ukraine war and the convenient version of avoiding sanctions against Russia, as well as from the bargains it started with the US, so that on the “balance” of the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO, to include on the other hand the request of Turkey for the “thawing” of the upgrade of its armaments programs by Washington.
Regardless of the result, however, Ankara has been for a long time can not hide its embarrassment for the armament upgrade of Greece, with the result that the Turkish Minister of Defense, Hulusi Akar, is often unable to hide his annoyance by criticizing our country’s armaments programs and talking about a rally. “It does not make sense for a country with so much debt to have such a love of armaments or to run for new alliances when NATO exists,” he said, as Turkey almost begged Congress to unfreeze upgrading Turkish F-16 fighter jets. .
A request whose outcome is being judged, according to Nikos Panagiotopoulos. “The road to the acquisition or upgrade of F-16s according to what the Turkish side is asking for is long and uncertain. “I have serious doubts whether it will be approved by the legislatures of the United States, that is, the Congress and the Senate,” said the Greek Minister of Defense, who participated in the government mission in Washington.
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