Athens informs allies and partners of Erdogan’s new threats
THE adherence to international law and the strengthening of the country’s deterrent capacity is Greek answer at constant challenges from the opposite side of the Aegean. Analysts consider that the inflammatory statements of Recep Tayyip Erdogan they are not addressed to the Greeks but mainly to the internal audiencehowever they express worry for a possible “intentional accident” on the part of Turkey.
In the microscope of Athens it is located neo-ottoman crescendo of the president of Turkey, who, against the background of the completion of 100 years since the Asia Minor Disaster, upgraded the threat intensity which launches.
The Greek capital strips away all the rhetoric of the leadership of its eastern neighbor and, using International Law as a weapon, is preparing to brief allies and partners on Ankara’s extreme challenges.
“The Turkish side has been trying for a very long time to drag us into a rhetorical tension and an absurd interpretation, a political absurdity, regarding the status in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean. “Greece, in a very stable, very effective, substantial way, both at the level of diplomacy and at the level of our deterrence capacity, has shaped such a reality that the validity of international conventions and International Law is not shaken in any way,” he said to SKAI the government representative, Giannis Oikonomou.
THE Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues his anti-Greek delirium, enriching the content of his verbal debauchery with lyrics from a 1974 song that refer to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
“O Hellene, look, look at the story. Look at the story again. If you go too far, the price will be heavy, heavy. has only one suggestion for Greece, don’t forget Izmir. (…) The possession of the islands (by Greece) does not bind us. When the time comes, the time, we will do what is necessary,” said the Turkish president.
Promises characterizes them news regarding the occurrences of natural gas reserves off Cyprus the president of the next. In an interview with “Kathimerini of Cyprus”, the Roberta Metzola points out that the European Union has clearly called on Turkey to immediately reverse its actions in Varosiaas they make the prospect of a solution to the Cyprus issue more difficult.
“THE Turkey must show commitment in maintaining good neighborly relations and stop promoting unacceptable and extreme proposalsthis for the two-state solution in Cyprus, contrary to the spirit and the letter of the United Nations framework” noted the president of the European Parliament.
Them 157 they arrived overflights with the one that took place on Saturday night, by a Turkish drone, at 19,000 feet above the islet of Kandeliosa.
Reporting: Dimitris Gatsios