Greece cool towards Erdogan rhetoric – The thermometer goes up in Greek-Turkish
The ends are now driven by Turkish provocationin view of the summer, with the President Tayyip Erdogan to personally attack the Greek Prime Minister, while the immediate response was from Athens, which emphasizes that Greek foreign policy is strongly based on history, international law and our alliances, no matter how much it bothers some.
Choosing the rhetoric of the familiar sharpening, Mr. Erdogan, in an event for the six Turkish submarines of a new type, and unable to hide his irritation for the diplomacy of Athens and the defensive shield of Greece, proceeded. in an unprecedented statement against the Greek Prime Minister.
“For me, Mitsotakis no longer exists. “I will never meet with him, we will continue our way with honest politicians,” said the Turkish President, after the criticism made by Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Ankara during his visit to the United States. Mr Erdogan accused the prime minister of trying to block US F-16 fighter jets in Turkey.
A little earlier, Tayyip Erdogan, verbally against Greece and Cyprus, on the occasion, reiterated the narrative of the “Blue Homeland”, while he also called on NATO for the sanctions imposed on his country after its entry into Cyprus.
The appearance of the Turkish President, according to political observers, is also attributed to the need for Mr. Erdogan not to address the interior of the country with the Turkish economy to say the least and lead to elections next year.
Cool she was reaction of Athens through the government representative Giannis Oikonomou:
“The prime minister is defending both our national law and international law as effectively as it does bother some,” the government spokesman said. “We will not confront statements with the Turkish leadership. Our policy is a policy of principles, added Mr. Economou.
THE SYRIZA -PS described as “absolutely unacceptable and condemnable” the statements of the Turkish President for the termination of the dialogue with the Prime Minister of Greece, noting that we expect the reaction of our allies and partners, which can not once again be based on equal distances and words without confrontation . .
In the meantime, particularly elevated is lately the refugee flows from Turkey to Greece, both in the Eastern Aegean and in Evros, characterized by the incident of preventing the approach to Greek waters of 9 boats with 600 passengers, in the sea area between Chios and Samos, which occurred in the last 24 hours.