“Obvious aggressive move that shows that our islands are being spied on. We remind you that everything that is threatened is not demilitarized”
With the Greek-French exercise “Argo” underway in the northern Aegean, the Turkish regime is creating a war atmosphere. The Erdogan government through the Turkish Ministry of Defense released video of the Yıldırım recruitment exercise that took place on Saturday with hundreds of reservists arriving at the recruitment sites, taking ergonomic measurements, receiving clothing and weapons and even firing shots. with their individual rifle and pistol.
The Erdogan government itself continues to create a belligerent climate by feeding the Turkish media with Defense Ministry leaks, images taken by drones apparently on a spying mission that monitored the transfer of armored vehicles and other war material that the Turkish report said took place in Lesbos and Samos on September 18 and 21.
It is typical that CNNTurk presenter Kaan Temeltas prefaced the relevant provocation report as follows: “There are times when Greece, in violation of international law, transported armored vehicles given to it by the USA, to non-militarized Aegean islands.” With these images, Erdoğan is trying to substantiate his story about the violation of Treaties by Greece, which militarizes islands that, according to the Turkish reading, should not have military units.
The immediate response of Athens to this attempted provocation with circles of the Ministry of Defense and military sources pointing out: “An obvious aggressive move that shows that our islands are being spied on. We remind you that everything that is threatened is not demilitarized.”
It seems that in Ankara they have not yet analyzed the Greek Prime Minister’s message from the UN podium because Erdogan seems to continue to “fish” for votes with anti-Greek rhetoric.
“This year, from August 26 to September 9, it was 100 years since a series of victories with which we expelled the Greeks from the country and the National Struggle ended with victory. I point out that the Adapazari region fought an epic fight against the Armenian and Greek gangs and faced the occupying forces in the National Struggle,” the Sultan specifically said.
The president of the Turkish parliament, Mustafa Sedop, who proceeded to make disparaging characterizations of Greece, was also close by: “We have only one word to say about wagon states, not locomotives, like Greece that sails with the winds of others. Our interlocutors are not puppets but puppeteers who manage them.”
The representative of Erdogan’s party, the well-known Omer Celik, also fired arrows against Greece and the Greek Prime Minister personally: “To be convincing for peace, Mitsotakis should start by stopping the massacres committed by the Greeks elements in the Aegean. Turkey is a state of peace. The Greek government, on the other hand, was a government of harassment.”
The threat was preceded by Akar, who vented his anger by sending a message in an interview to Hurriyet that the Greeks should remember what happened 100 years ago and learn to swim because they will need it. The answer came through the mouth of Nikos Panagiotopoulos: “We neither provoke nor offend but yes we do not forget! And this is not a source of weakness but it is the source of our strength”
