“We are friends with those who are friends with us, but they must know well that we will do what is necessary with those who see us as enemies.”
While Cesme continues to sail in the heart of the Aegean with illegal NAVTEX challenging Greek sovereign rights, Turkey is questioning Greece’s right to conduct an exercise southeast of Karpathos by occupying an area, claiming that this area is under Turkish jurisdiction!
At the same time, Ankara-friendly countries, such as Azerbaijan and Albania, are taking part in the EFES exercise, and their soldiers are being trained by Turks on boarding landing craft to land on an “enemy” shore while the Albanian Defense Minister in Athens…
The United States… and France… and Pakistan, which has excellent relations with Turkey, are also taking part in the exercise.
Among the scenarios are those in which helicopter landings approach a coast that has been considered hostile and has previously been hit by Turkish military attack helicopters.
The Turkish Air Force also violated the National Airspace on Sunday. With an unmanned aircraft, he crossed the borders of the EEX of the islands of the southeastern Aegean 16 times!
Five hundred and sixty-nine years after the Fall of Constantinople, the neo-Ottoman revisionism clearly shows its intentions with aggressive rhetoric, fiestas for the day for Hellenism and amphibious exercises a short distance from Greek islands such as Chios, Samos and Lesvos.
Returning from Azerbaijan and asked about Greek-Turkish relations, Erdogan classified Greece as one of Turkey’s enemies and threatened.
“We are friends with those who are friends with us, but they should know well that we will do what is necessary with those who see us as an enemy,” he said.
In Athens, both the government spokesman and the Ministers of National Defense and Foreign Affairs sent their own messages on the anniversary of the Fall
“The fall of Constantinople is not the end, because Byzantine ecumenical civilization has never stopped illuminating humanity.”
Nikos Dendias states: “It is an open day for our national memory. “Today, the conversion of Hagia Sophia, a World Heritage Site, into a mosque, like the vandalism of the Imperial Gate, saddens any person who respects history.”
With the Fall of the City 569 years ago, “Romania is gone”. Memory stays alive and reinterprets our decisions, whenever circumstances require. The memory and the sense of duty are unquenchable, serving values and principles such as Greece, Freedom, Democracy, the right side of history as loyal and honorable soldiers and not as deliberate neutrals. So “it blooms and brings more”.
In Ankara, however, they continue to devise ways in which they will cause unrest on the Greek side. With a relevant NOTAM, two areas opposite Lesvos were blocked and from June 1st to June 25th, Turkish fighters will perform supersonic flights! As military sources who spoke to PENTAPOSTAGMA point out: “Shock waves from the sound explosion that will cause the breaking of the sound barrier by the Turkish fighters will reach the shores of Lesvos, possibly disturbing the inhabitants”.
