Members of the Turkish speaking Muslim community of Thrace have apparently colluded with the Turkish consulate in Rhodes to provide Turkey with Greek state secrets. Those Greek citizens involved in this collusion should be prosecuted for treason and the Turkish consulate in Rhodes should be permanently closed and its diplomats expelled from Greece.
This is reminiscent of the activities of some members of the Muslim community in Thrace in the run up to the anti Greek pogroms in Constantinople in 1955. Some members of that community colluded with the Turkish consulate in Thessaloniki to bomb the birthplace of Mustafa Kemal. Kemal’s house is on property that belongs to the Turkish consulate.
The news in Turkey that Kemal’s house was bombed contributed to the rage of Turkish mobs who attacked Greeks and their Churches, homes, and businesses. Although members of the Turkish consulate in Thessaloniki were investigated, no arrests were made. Nor were the Muslims who were Greek citizens held accountable for their treasonous actions.
We will see if Greece has changed in the past sixty five years by the manner in which the Mitsotakis government responds to treason by Greek citizens and by espionage by the enemy. By all rights, the Greek citizens should be given life sentences in prison and the Turkish consulate should be closed.
Further Turkish hostility toward Hellenism can be ascertained by the comments of Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Kavusoglu who said that Turkey only supports a two state solution for Cyprus. In fairness, it has been clear for decades that Turkey had no intention of ever withdrawing from the territories that Ankara seized through its invasions in 1974. Greece and Cyprus never took the Turks seriously.
Since Turkish officials are openly affirming that they have no intention of respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Cyprus, Athens and Nicosia should begin to see reality. Both Greece and Cyprus should declare to the European Union that failure to impose sanctions on Turkey over Ankara’s aggression against both Hellenic states will be seen as a hostile act.
Greece and Cyprus should cease cooperating with the European Union on other matters and should focus on relations with Russia. Greece and Russia are on the same side in Libya while Turkey is supporting a rival faction and has signed a bogus agreement to divide the Mediterranean with Libya. Greece has restored diplomatic relations with Syria which further demonstrates that Greece and Russia have many things in common.
Turkish aggression against Greece and Cyprus, and espionage in Greece by Turkey demonstrate that Greece cannot depend on its “partners” in the European Union. Whether Greece and Cyprus can depend on the United States remains to be seen, but Washington has other priorities and Turkey could very well take a back seat to the Biden administration’s anti Russian stance.
2 replies on “Turkish Aggression Continues unhindered”
It was ludicrous for the Greeks to think northern Europe was going to do anything substantive towards Turkey, especially with the international pandemic raging. This is not the time, economies are precarious enough as it is. Once we get vaccines distributed and economic confidence is restored, it might be a better time to confront Turkey. Right now everybody is holding on with their fingertips and hoping for recovery in 2021. Next year is going to be challenging for Greece and Cyprus even then. I see US foreign affairs swinging back to more pro-Turkey under a Biden Administration. With Erdogan in Ankara America won’t embrace Turkey like they once did, but the Dems will favor Turkey more than Trump did with Pompeo as SOS-if only to chart a different direction. Democrats treat the Greek American support that party has with contempt, they take the 60-70% of GA support for granted because too many Greek American leaders sold out for photo ops with Clinton/Obama in past years and never pushed for more than that. I’d like to note that-once again-Ekathemerini has not been subtle about their support for Democrats to retake the White House. And naturally they won’t own up to their error in judgment when State swings back to more pro-Turkey than under Pompeo. The years come and go but the GA leadership never get any wiser, our ethnic group always gets played because of it.
I think the Europeans rejected Greek demands for sanctions for two reasons. First, the traditional anti Greek and pro Turkish attitude based on Turkey’s strategic position. Secondly, Turkey is threatening to flood Europe with refugees. Mitsotakis lobbying Europe was understandable but based on reality Greece needs another plan and strategy,