How the Turkish media broadcast Erdogan’s ‘Mitsotakis yoke’

The speech of the Turkish president has become a topic in the Turkish media, but also the reaction on Greek soil to the echo of the words of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who said that after the trip to the USA and the speech in the Congress “for me now Mitsotakis yoke”.

The fanatically pro-government Milliyet, with the headline “Erdogan caused an earthquake in Greece” captures the headlines in the Greek media, while in parallel with an attempt at tailoring, tries to show how pro-Hellenic US policy is, how anti-Turkish Kyriakos’s speech was on Sunday. Congress and why Erdogan is right in what he says. “The US military, which made Souda its base in the Eastern Mediterranean, also sent then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to the base in Crete. Pompeo posed on the US aircraft carrier with Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis,” is one of the pro-government phrases. newspaper audience with the necessary anti-American arguments.

With the headline “Mitsotakis yoke”, the newspaper Takvim talks about: “President Erdogan’s very harsh reaction in hypocritical Greece”, emphasizing the Turkish president’s statement that “there is no Mitsotakis anymore” for him. The article in the electronic version is accompanied by a collage of photos depicting the Greek Prime Minister as a “puppet” of the USA.

“President Erdogan blasts the Greek prime minister: There is no Mitsotakis for me” is the title of a Sabah article. A few hours later, a mini who is who was published informing the readers of the newspaper who K. Mitsotakis is: “Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Greek politician. He is the son of Konstantinos Mitsotakis, one of the former prime ministers of Greece. Mitsotakis, who is an MP from 2004, he served as Minister of Administrative Reform from 2013 to 2015. He was elected leader of New Democracy in 2016 and became leader of the main opposition party.In the Greek general elections of 2019, his party took first place and became Prime Minister of Greece “.

For its part, Yeni Şafak, after speaking in yesterday’s article about “Erdogan’s very harsh reaction” to Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who called on the US not to give fighter jets to the US, today the pro-government newspaper returns with a mini … who is who for the Greek Prime Minister, so that readers can find out who this Mitsotakis is … who was blasted by the President of Turkey.

“Erdogan’s very harsh reaction to the Greek leader: Mitsotakis no longer exists for me,” writes Hurriyet, commenting that the Turkish president announced that the Greek-Turkish summit in the autumn would not take place. In another article, the Turkish newspaper hosts the view of the “greatness” of the Turkish governments that vetoed and managed Greece and France to return to NATO, while informing their readers that Greece had left “because of the Turkish peacekeeping mission. in Cyprus “in 1974.

“They advised not to give F-16s to Turkey. There is no Mitsotakis for me,” Aksam wrote, adding that President Erdogan had said he would follow in the footsteps of honorable politicians who would keep their word.

Characteristic is the fact that only the left-wing anti-government Sol Haber and Cumhuriyet hosted the comment made by government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou, responding to Erdogan.

Petros Kranias