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Delusional Akar attacks Greece with indirect references to the Destruction of Smyrna

What if Turkey today, August 26, celebrates the great victory of the Seljuks over the Byzantines at Manzikert, in 1071, which opened the gates of Asia Minor for the Turks? What if Turkey is celebrating these days the 100th anniversary of its victory over the Greek army in 1922, an event that constitutes one of the nationalist pillars of the modern Turkish state? Once again “us versus Greece” dominates the delusional interview Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar gave to the Hürriyet newspaper, as yet another attempt to score points for Erdogan, which shows the dire position the Turkish president is in. against the Turkish people.

“These days when we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the great victory, we say clearly and clearly to Greece that you saw how painful the price of the adventure that began a century ago was. We strongly recommend that you learn from history and avoid new adventures which will lead to disappointment”, says Akar to the journalist Fatih Çekirge, from the headquarters set up by Mustafa Kemal in Axari, Asia Minor, making an indirect reference to one of the most tragic pages in world history, which is none other than the arson and destruction of Smyrna.

“We say you have 3 thousand islands, yet you come under our noses, militarize the islands, claiming 10 miles of airspace over 6 miles of territorial waters. You are right under our noses and say we are expansionists!” he protested once again wanting to legitimize the baseless claims and demands of Ankara. “We are really sincere so that the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean are a common working space between the two countries and we always ask for this. Unfortunately, we do not see a response” Akar asserted, glossing over the fact that for more than 50 years the Turkish side she is the one who finds pretexts to leave the dialogue table, like most recently the “Mitsotakis yoke” of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

“In the Eastern Mediterranean, in Cyprus, we will not allow the rights and interests of either ours or our brothers to be violated and we do not allow fait accompli here. There, the calculations were made, and our research vessel is currently working . Our frigate TCG Gediz is escorting to the Yörükler-1 area. Our hope is that they don’t make any mistakes. Everyone knows that if they make a mistake, we will retaliate manifold, and everyone should have understood that,” Akar tells a failed attempt to arouse the nationalist feeling of the readers.

“We say that a futile arms race has started in Greece. The Greek people’s money is being wasted on arms and equipment that have reached their expiration date. Used planes, used tanks, used guns, whatever they have, France sells them to Greece and takes out money. You won’t get anywhere with that though. If you’re trying to defend Greece like this, it’s too much to defend. You don’t need that many weapons to defend yourself. But if this is against Turkey it’s too little!” he concluded the Turkish Defense Minister.

“‘Greek politicians shamelessly say there is no Lavrio camp’, they deny it. This camp is FETO’s protector and PKK/YPG shelter, DHKP-C, but they say ‘we have no such thing’. It was also captured in the press, there are statements of the terrorists there, everything is clear and clear how this camp turned into a terrorist camp” the Turkish minister further asserted.

Petros Kranias

Source: Capital

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