“I think that Mitsotakis does not know that the sovereignty of these islands was given with a civilian regime. I think he will find out”, said Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during his interview on the state channel TRT.
“Come, let’s have a meal” about 1-5 months ago. We had dinner with Mitsotakis at Vahdettin Mansion. I told him: “Let’s not bring a third country between us from now on, whatever we do, let’s set up a direct line, let’s negotiate.” He went from there and did similar things in Davos. We are Turkey, we are not a tribe.
I canceled the meetings of the High Level Cooperation Council. There are 9 US bases in Greece. When you say this, they deny it. American bases will also be on the islands. They say it’s to defend against Russia.
What power do you have? Even the US can’t do that. Greece is trying to prevent us from buying planes. They say “don’t give them to Turkey”. But we maintain our position with our attitude.
They learned the lesson from here. These activities carried out by Greece are contrary not only to the Lausanne Agreement, but also to the Paris Agreement. I think that Mitsotakis does not know that the sovereignty of these islands was given while remaining under a civilian regime. I think he’ll find out.”
