This in in response to the Guardian’s September 11 article on Greece and Turkey. The article is seriously distorted and takes a stance that is much too favorable to the Turkish aggressors. Turkey is attempting to drill for oil in waters that are recognized as belonging to Greece under international law. The article cites the comments of a Turkish Admiral who favors the overthrow of the Treaty of Lausanne, but the Guardian fails to challenge or criticize him. For centuries the Ottoman Empire conquered and ruled over numerous Christian peoples who were horribly persecuted. Between 1914 and 1923, the decadent Ottomans perpetrated genocide against Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks.
The article attempts to promote false understanding for Turkey by mentioning Prime Minister David Lloyd George. The Turks emerged triumphant in 1922 and escaped punishment for their aforementioned crimes against humanity. Today, Turkish leaders openly covet the Greek islands and demand the renunciation of the Lausanne Treaty. Turkey is led by a monstrous tyrant who has collaborated with monsters such as the Islamic State and is attempting to conquer Greece and Cyprus, in addition to supporting the genocidal threats made against Armenia by its allies in Azerbaijan.
Expressing a sympathetic view for Turkey today is not unlike expressing a sympathetic view for Germany in 1938 when Hitler was seeking to dismember the democratic government of Czeckoslovakia. Turkey is a country that has benefited from the western world’s blindness towards its genocidal history and expansionistic tendencies owing to the perception that Ankara had strategic value. That miscalculation has encouraged Turkish expansionism and convinced both the present Turkish leadership and its predecessors that it can bully and provoke neighboring countries such as Greece, Cyprus, and Armenia.
Turkish leaders are presently boasting that Syrian volunteers will fight on their side in the event of a war with Greece. What is to be said about a lunatic regime which openly welcomes the support of jihadists and terrorists? In addition to bragging about their support from international terrorists, Ankara never fails to remind Greece of its genocidal ambitions by praising the 1922 slaughter of Greek and Armenian Christians at Smyrna. The Guardian also fails to mention that the Turkish leadership is blackmailing Europe by threatening to unleash a wave of millions of refugees into Europe.
The Turkish leadership sees these refugees as nothing more than a weapon upon which to threaten and intimidate the whole of European civilization. Threatening to unleash an army of refugees during the worldwide pandemic which could further spread covid-19 should be seen as further evidence of the evil and barbaric nature of the Turkish government.
Theodore G. Karakostas
Link to the article being responded to
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/11/mediterranean-gas-greece-turkey-dispute-nato