A report on Turkish state television reported that “the Aegean islands had been ceded to Italy to be returned to the Ottoman Empire.”
The provocative rhetoric from Turkey about the Greek islands.
THE Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan In his statements yesterday, he stressed that the promises for the Aegean islands were not kept.
At the same time, the Turkish media target the Greek islands.
A state television report said that “the Aegean islands had been ceded to Italy to be returned to the Ottoman Empire.”
“The Aegean islands include the Dodecanese. In 1912 they were ceded to Italy on the condition of their return to the Ottoman Empire. In 1923 it was imposed to be under the regime of demilitarization and after the Second World War they were ceded to Greece. In 2021, the militarization of the islands accelerated. This time Greece is not alone. “The United States, which is Turkey’s biggest ally, has begun to deploy weapons systems in the Aegean islands. So ten is the number of US bases in Greece.”
He also reached the extremes Masum Turker, former Minister of State of Turkey, with his statements, proposing “the Turkish navy to intervene in the Greek islands and carry out a liquidation operation”.
“In some of these islands we have to do a clearing operation. “Our Navy must take action in those Aegean islands that will stop the situation that has developed there.”
Then a journalist from the panel told him that what he was saying meant war, and he replied: “If war is needed to defend our rights in the Treaty of Lausanne.”
