Greek-Turkish: A return to the rhetoric of challenges from Erdogan 2024-07-26 12:13:07

The Turkish president, after seeing that his position on the activation of the illegal Turkish-Libyan pact did not pass and Greece remained steadfast in its decision to defend its sovereign rights in the south of Kasos and complete the investigations, moved on to his next move. Speaking to the AKP Parliamentary Group, Erdogan returned to his old bad rhetoric, bringing back his out-of-place and out-of-time positions about a “Turkish minority” in Western Thrace in violation of the Lausanne Treaty.

The occasion was the event organized by his party for the death of Ahmet Sadik, who played the game of the Turkish consulate in Western Thrace in the 1980s and died in a car accident in 1995 outside Komotini. The Turkish president claimed in his speech: “To Sadiq we owe a large part of what the “Turkish minority” has won in Western Thrace. In our meetings with the Greek authorities, the issues of our compatriots in Western Thrace are at the top of our agenda. We monitor matters related to religion, worship and education. We will continue to protect the “Turkish minority” in Western Thrace and the same applies to the Turkish Cypriots who have been victims of injustice and discrimination for almost three quarters of a century since the 60s,” the Turkish president initially said.

Continuing on the Cyprus issue, the Turkish president said that “we cannot forget the burnt villages, the murdered children, the tragedies of our Turkish Cypriot brothers. If these atrocities were happening, Westerners did nothing. With the “peace operation”, Turkey broke the hands of those who were plotting the independence of the Turkish Cypriots. Unfortunately, no solution emerged from the negotiations. We and the Turkish Cypriots have made our position clear and have declared that we will be committed to the fight for the independence of the TRNC,” he concluded. In the meantime, Erdogan also remembered the sad anniversary of the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque, on July 24, 2020 by him.

Answer from Athens

“The members of the Muslim minority in Thrace enjoy equality and equality,” the diplomatic sources in Athens replied and hastened to clarify that “issues related to the rule of law and the protection of the human rights of Greek citizens are not and could not be discussed.” . The same sources did not fail to respond to Erdogan’s reports on the Cyprus issue that “Ankara is committed to the independence struggle of the TRNC”

“The perpetuation of the current status quo, the possession of one third of the island and the creation of two states are not solutions”, said the same sources and noted: “We remain committed to the solution of the Cyprus problem within the framework of the decisions of the UN Security Council which they envisage a bizonal, bicommunal federation solution. In this context, we support the efforts of the UN Secretary General and his personal envoy for the reunification of the island.”

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