A. Georgiadis for ‘Turkaegean’: I apologize, I will do everything to prevent it – I found out later

The Minister of Development and Investments, Adonis Georgiadis, in an interview, mentioned about the trademark “turkaegan”, for which there has been a great deal of political anxiety for days:

“I am very sorry for what happened, I apologize to those who were upset that this thing happened, but I had absolutely no information, I found out after it happened,” he said, speaking in the First Program 91.6 and 105.8.

“The issue of” Turkaegean “is a much more complicated issue and I would not like to take an easy position, because I have also ordered an SAD and I respect the procedures at least in terms of the possible responsibilities of the Ministry of Development”, added the Minister and assured that Greece will take the necessary legal action to which it is entitled, in order to abolish the registration.

In any case, he made it clear that this is a commercial issue and does not create any issue of national sovereignty. In fact, he noted that for 25 years now Turkey has been advertising the Turkish Aegean with entries in the Turkish and international press. “What ‘s new is that I’m branding the’ Turkaegean ‘brand. Wrong. I’m not saying it right. I’m clearing it up and doing everything I can to prevent it. from the one and only employee who received the signal, “he said.

According to Mr. Georgiadis, in a few days the EDE will be completed and its results, he said, will be made known to the Greek people.

Regarding SYRIZA’s harsh criticism of the Minister of Development, Mr. Georgiadis noted that: “I am accused by Mr. Tsipras because an official of the Ministry of Development of the Trade Committee, when informed about this request of Turkey, did not inform the “leadership and did not raise a red flag. In fact, for that I should be blamed.” However, he wanted to quote some critical details, as he characteristically said.

The signal service with a law under the ministry of Mr. Georgiadis was abolished in April 2021, as he explained and the responsibility was transferred to OBI. “I said then that the service was not working the way I wanted, that there was no electronic protocol and if something went wrong, no one could find out. I said this in Parliament. SYRIZA and PASOK said that the service is fine and The law was passed and the service was abolished. “An EDE is open, I do not want to condemn anyone before the process is completed”, added Mr. Georgiadis.

Asked if there is political responsibility, he replied: “Should there be political responsibility in something I never learned? To take political responsibility, very gladly. Why is a politician accused of political responsibility? Why in the field of his responsibility a service does not work properly. Here , in this case the minister in question had said that the service was not working properly and abolished it “underlined and repeated” the reason I went to Parliament and abolished it is because this service operated in a way that no one could know if an official did not do what he did not do in this case. ”

“Lost” I see that Fr. Erdogan from the Summit

Mr. Erdogan is “losing”, said Mr. Georgiadis when asked if the President of Turkey finally won the NATO Summit or not. “For two months he has been saying that he will veto the accession of Sweden and Finland. His adviser, Mr Kalin, has said that we do not want a landmark in Madrid. The assessments of various diplomats were that the veto could not be lifted without serious In return, we said that he would come and raise issues of the Aegean, the demilitarization of islands, Greek overflights, that he would submit maps that would show that Greece had violated the law in various places. This was the prevailing climate.

He is coming to Madrid. In the first 25 minutes, the veto for the accession of the two countries has been lifted. Papala the blackmail. What did it take to lift the veto? He took a memorandum between Sweden and Finland, which concerns us almost at all, which says that they will speed up the process of extraditing terrorists. Do you see any serious gain from this? That was the whole point, a two-month veto to get the secret services to exchange information on the terrorists? He also received an expression that Sweden and Finland will not impose an embargo on arms sales, “the minister said.

In connection with Mr. Erdogan’s meeting with the American President, Mr. Georgiadis commented caustically “he finally saw President Biden, he managed to take a photo with him …” a great success “.

More specifically, he pointed out that 4 years ago Turkey took the F-35s in which it was a co-producing country and now it would have received the first 20 if the schedule had been met, while Greece was then trying to find a way to upgrade the F-16s to Viper. “5 years later, Greece has the first 6 Vipers in the air and they are being upgraded rapidly and the rest, 83 if I remember correctly in total will be done. It has taken 6 Rafale and they are preparing to come the next beginning of next year.

Turkey has managed to lose the F-35s it would have received and received a pledge from President Biden that it would support Congress with its proposal for Turkey to procure upgraded F-16s, the Viper. He received presidential support in Congress for this program. Presidential support in Congress, does that mean Congress will release them? This now has a long way to go, maybe 1-1.5 years in Congress, if it passes, if it is not cut. In the best case scenario for Turkey, when Greece will have in the air some 20 Rafale and some 20 Viper, then the program will be approved by the Congress to upgrade the first F-16s of Turkey, to have Viper after 5 years “added the Minister.

Accuracy: Winter will be difficult

In the field of accuracy and regarding the decrease in household deposits due to the increased cost of living, Mr. Georgiadis said “I understand the extent of the reduction of deposits by 300 million today and I am glad that it is taking such an extent because they obviously consider “Some people think that such a reduction is a big problem, but what impresses me is that when deposits increased by many billions, we passed it on as a trivial fact.” Pointing out that the reality is that we are very accurate, he noted that most of the inflation comes from rising energy and that there are very serious concerns that it will intensify in the winter.

“The reality is that foreign governments, French or German, Italian are now asking citizens to reduce energy consumption and learn to live differently because winter will be difficult, that we do not know if Russia will give natural in winter. gas in Europe or not and this is already affecting gas prices very much.In products like wheat, sugar, oil, international prices have gone up 6-7 times, the reality is that they have a war that has caused extreme inflation around the world.

We try to limit the extent of a phenomenon whose existence is impossible to prevent. With subsidy measures, especially for the weakest, the government tries to help those who do not make ends meet due to the big wave of inflation, as far as its budget margins allow. “Unfortunately, there are such people and it should be our first concern,” said the Minister of Development.

We are in a pre-election period regardless of when elections will take place

Regarding the issue of the elections and whether they will be announced in the near future, Mr. Georgiadis characteristically said that “from the time the third year of government closes and we enter the fourth, we are in a pre-election period anyway. “The elections will take place in September-October, as the journalists say, in March or July next year. It is now normal to deal with the elections because that is how democracies work.”