Mitsotaki’s speech displeased Turkey

Mitsotaki’s speech to the Congress provoked a strong reaction from the Turkish media, which expressed Ankara’s dissatisfaction with the turn of events in US-Greek relations.

However, it seems that the Turkish media were even more annoyed that Mr. Mitsotakis was applauded with the entire Congress on foot, at various points in his speech and especially in the report he made on the Cyprus issue asking not to adopt a two-state solution.

The titles in a wide range show how much the map of the blue homeland shown by Kyriakos Mitsotakis bothered Turkey, as well as the statement that Greece will buy an F-35.

Ankara-Washington relations are at their worst

Let’s not forget that until the purchase of the S400, Turkey was a co-producer in the F-35 program and now Mevlüt Çavuşoλουlu is in New York and will meet with his counterpart Anthony Blinken to secure the purchase and upgrade of the old generation F- 16. In fact, at a time when the US refuses to deliver to Turkey the first 5 F-35s that have been built and paid for.

The headlines and articles show the outrage caused by these developments in Ankara: “Mitsotakis’s clowns who applauded him standing in Congress”, “Greece’s games to get an F-35”, “Slander about the eastern Mediterranean”, ” “Mitsotaki’s complaints to the Congress”, are some of them.

This is the climate in Turkey today with the possible veto of Turkey in the background, for the enlargement of NATO with the accession of Sweden and Finland, to add another thorn or according to analysts in Ankara another negotiating paper in the Ankara-Washington relations. at their worst.

Andreas Robopoulos, Istanbul

Source: Deutsche Welle