“Turkish provocation escalates” / Greek PM reacts harshly to Ankara’s statements on status of Greek Aegean islands

“I informed about the escalation of the Turkish provocation and said that provocations and strong attitudes cannot be tolerated by Greece and the EU. “And I asked that this issue, if Turkey insists on this absurd and hopeless strategy, be discussed again at the next European Council in June.”said Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

On Tuesday morning, Turkish media published an interview with Turkish chief diplomat Cavusoglu, who, among other things, accused Athens of violating the status of the East Aegean Islands. , but Greece did so claiming to be threatened by Turkey.

“Greece must demilitarize these islands. On the contrary, the conversation about their sovereignty begins. After these islands were given to Greece under certain conditions. We will not say: All right, you have armed them so far, stop now. Nothing like that happens. Greece violates international law“, Said Mevlut Cavusoglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey.

Cavousoglou, who during the interview showed the maps with the Greek islands, in which he sees the “problem”, from Samothrace to the southeast to the island of Castelorizo, returning to the speech of Prime Minister Mitsotakis in the US Congress, stressed that Greece lobbies against a NATO ally and that Greek politicians believe that if they do not attack Turkey 5-10 times a day, they will not be able to please their people, so Ankara ends the process of the Greek-Turkish High Cooperation Council. Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dhendias has described the statements of his Turkish counterpart as full of insults, characterizations and with an irritating spirit, emphasizing that such positions prove to even the most skeptics, how right Greece is when it says that Turkey is threatening us.

Five days ago, Athens submitted a petition to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in which it thoroughly analyzes Turkey’s unilateral and non-existent objections to the Aegean islands, which it calls legally, historically and factually unfounded.

Specifically, the whole Turkish argument for the “promise” of Greek sovereignty of the Aegean islands on the condition of their demilitarization is rejected.

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