Greek-Turkish: On “amok” Erdogan – Bakhtseli – How Athens responds to threats
Ankara continues to reverse reality and accuse Greece of … violations of Turkish internal space.
By Penelope Galliou
The political leadership of Turkey indulges in an auction of revisionism and extremes, with the two co-governors Tayyip Erdogan and Devlet Bakhceli competing in threats and slanders against Greece. The government partner of Tayyip Erdogan, after the extreme statements of the Turkish president, took the baton and directly and clearly threatened to invade Greece. In particular, commenting on the delirium Erdoğan set the tone for once again, he emphasized that “it is easy to cross the Aegean, our president said it well”.
Every limit was crossed once again by the Turkish propaganda, making black and white about the overflights in the Aegean. Reversing the reality, the Turkish Ministry of Defense spoke of alleged violations of Turkish airspace by Greek fighters. In fact, sources of the Turkish Ministry of Defense have allegedly leaked specific basic data that Greece supposedly committed 1,616 violations and harassments against Turkish internal space and territorial waters last year, while this number reached 1,123 in just eight months this year. They also persist in the lies about the locking of Turkish fighter jets, claiming that since August 15, the Greek radars supposedly “locked” the Turkish fighters for 3,372 seconds in 14 separate incidents.
In contrast to the Turkish frenzy, Athens is firmly oriented and calm, insisting on moving exclusively in the orbit of International Law.
As the government representative explained for the umpteenth time through SKAI television, despite Turkey’s attempt to drag Greece into a rhetorical tension and into a political absurdity, with regard to the regime in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean, “Greece . in a very stable, very effective, substantial way and at the level of diplomacy and at the level of improving our deterrence capacity throughout the previous period, it has shaped a reality such that the force of international conventions and International Law is not shaken in any way.
Its argumentation deconstructs step by step in every expression of the country the irrationality of the Turkish side, the ahistorical and non-existent claims, the distortion of History in order to serve its revisionism” said the government representative.
He also warned Ankara that “Greece has both the political depth and sufficient deterrent power to face the challenge. At the same time, making special mention of the Greek foreign policy strategy, stating that its success is that these very weapons of Turkish propaganda , is turning against her. Everyone knows, in the EU, in NATO, in France, in the USA, in Israel, in the Arab world, that Turkey is a force of revisionism. Greece is a force of stability in the wider region, it does not provoke, but at the same time it is adamant that it concerns its national sovereignty and its sovereign rights” he reminded.
Greek spotlights are focused on Tayyip Erdoğan’s tactics to revive his nationalist audience with verbal outbursts, and on semiotic references to two historical crimes that burden Ankara, such as Attila’s invasion of Cyprus and the destruction of Smyrna. From this, Athens’ readiness alarm is never “disarmed” as it can be estimated that Ankara has been moving at these extreme rates for many weeks, perhaps due to the celebrations of the Asia Minor Disaster, but almost the same rhetoric continues for months . , and cannot be ignored.
In addition, it is a given that Greece – in addition to internationalizing Turkish challenges at every opportunity and from every “international stage” – will also insist on institutionally informing our allies and partners, for the notification of the ongoing and escalating Turkish delinquency and provocative rhetoric. of the last few days, in order to make it clear who is dynamiting the cohesion of the alliance in a particularly dangerous period. At the same time, it will continue to remind our country’s role as a pillar of stability and security in the wider Eastern Mediterranean region, always respecting and observing the rules of International Law and the Law of the Sea.
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