Turkey is also in the pre-election phase. Within the next ten months, presidential and parliamentary elections must be held, but there are many controversial procedural and constitutional issues, as Rainer Herrmann, a columnist for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The risk for the Turkish president is that the AKP party may lose the absolute majority of 52.6%, […]
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Erdoğan delusion: Greece is not important in NATO – NATO is not strong without Turkey
Greece is not important in NATO, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday, continuing the aggressive and inflammatory crescendo of recent days, taking back the baton from his partner and leader of the Gray Wolves, Devlet Bakhceli. “NATO is strong if Turkey is present; NATO is not strong without Turkey,” he told reporters after […]
Celik for Greece: Locking our aircraft with the S-300 is considered a hostile action towards NATO
After Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Hulusi Akar and today Devlet Bakhceli, the baton of the attack against Greece was taken by the representative of Erdogan’s party, Omer Celik, who called the “targeting” of aircraft by the S-300 “hostile action” . Specifically, Celik said: “Locking down our aircraft with S-300s is considered a hostile action towards NATO. […]
The residents of Istanbul are in despair: Inflation in the city is at 99.9%
Inflation in Turkey’s biggest city, Istanbul, accelerated to 99.9% last month, according to the city’s main business association. Annual price increases jumped from 91.1% in July, according to the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (İTO) in its price index published on Thursday. On a monthly basis, the price rose 2.29%, it said. Istanbul inflation is traditionally […]
Erdogan on Greece: We know that those causing unrest in the Aegean are just pawns
Permanent “candy” in the mouth of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lately is Greece, as the national anniversaries for the side of Ankara combined with the difficult pre-election position of the government, force the Turkish President to try to arouse the nationalist sentiment of his fanatical Islamist followers. “We know that those who are […]
Turkish mob boss Peker’s complaints about Erdogan officials brought… resignations
An adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan resigned yesterday, Tuesday, after was the target of corruption charges by Turkish mobster Sedat Peker. “This lynching, which reached my daughter and my wife, has again become a threat to my health. For these reasons, I am resigning from my position,” Korkmaz Karaca, a member of the […]
M. Weber speaks of K. Mitsotakis’ determination towards Erdogan: ‘We will not be blackmailed by those who are outside our borders’
In his statements to journalists, at the headquarters of the Union of Foreign Correspondents in Rome, the president of the European People’s Party, Manfed Weber, referred to the need to observe solidarity in immigration, but also to respect European borders. In more detail, the president of the EPP, responding to a question from APE-MPE, emphasized: […]
Erdogan attack: Greece attacked NATO by ‘locking’ our F-16s with S-300s
“Greece is not our equal or an interlocutor, neither politically, nor economically, nor militarily,” said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, proving once again that Greece is a strong card in his effort to fan and promote the nationalist sentiment of his party’s base ahead of the 2023 elections. Continuing his incendiary speech, on the occasion […]
Erdogan loses more than 10 percentage points in Polis, Ankara and AKP strongholds in Pontus
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is losing voters in the country’s major cities. Compared to the 2018 elections, the AKP’s vote share has fallen by more than 10 percentage points in Istanbul, the capital Ankara, Bursa, the industrial heartland of Kocaeli and the Pontic cities of Trabzon and Rizunda, […]
Erdogan in an anti-Greek delirium – Athens’ responses to Turkey’s rhetorical and de facto détente
By Dimitris Gatsiou They are under the microscope of the Greek capital the new rhetorical crowns of the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who unfolds his anti-Hellenic delusion, constantly adding…points to his neo-Ottoman outbursts. Athens, in the face of the revisionist “dreams” of the leadership of its eastern neighbor, is sending out messages of […]
