Pserimos was left aside and today the topic in the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet is Crete which “expands its naval base” and it gives full information to the Turkish public about the Greek military movements.
According to the article, “the button was pressed for 13 projects worth 800 million euros, which provide for the construction of new facilities, the modernization and the purchase of ammunition in the Greek naval and land forces. The Minister of Defense Nikos Panagiotopoulos received approval from the parliamentary armaments committee “Contracts for 7 projects for the navy and 6 for the land forces. In this context, the Greek naval base located in Souda of Crete will be expanded at a cost of 190 million euros and with the construction of new facilities”.
According to the article, the move is clearly “against Turkey”, as the aim is the memorandum of understanding on the border of maritime jurisdiction signed between Turkey and Libya in 2019 and the naval base in Crete, which has acquired an important position after the crisis. of Oruç Reis in the Eastern Mediterranean in 2020, to host half of the Greek navy “.
As the columnist points out: “The Greek staffs stated that the second largest naval base in the country will be located in Crete, after the island of Salamis, near Athens. There is a Greek naval base at one end of the Gulf of Souda on the island of Crete and a US naval base at the other end Other approved projects are:
EUR 160 million for the modernization of S-70 Aegean Hawk helicopters.
EUR 90 million for the modernization of RM-70 multi-launcher systems.
80-90 million euros for the modernization of 122 mm missile systems.
150 million euros for the purchase of 30 thousand 122 mm tanks.
€ 20 million for the purchase of Hellfire missiles used in Apache helicopters “.
The news is also reproduced by CNN Türk.
In another article in the same newspaper, they deal with the text of the Summit, for which they state that “at the request of Athens, the paragraph on Turkey was included in the final statement of the summit”, and which they have titled “Mitsotakis’s dert Turkey again “.
For its part, Milliyet presents an alternative armament plan for Ankara in the event of no agreement with the US on F-16 fighters. “Plan B” envisages the purchase of used Eurofighters from Britain and the relevant discussions are already taking place, as the country was visited by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom, Liz Trass.
Petros Kranias
Source: Capital
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