Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made new provocative statements against Greece, as well as against the EU and NATO, during a ceremony at the National Defence University. “Turkey knows that those who cause unrest with harassment at every opportunity in the Aegean are only pawns and the real struggle is fought by those who are behind them”,…
[AP] “Those that sow unrest within the Aegean at each alternative with their harassment and rudeness are solely pawns,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan mentioned on Wednesday, the most recent in a sequence of feedback which have fueled rigidity with Greece. Talking at a army ceremony in Istanbul, the Turkish chief mentioned that the tensions within the Jap Mediterranean have been designed to undermine his nation’s pursuits. “We all know very effectively why the EU, which we're ready to hitch, excludes us and consists of international locations that can't be in comparison with us,” he added. Erdogan’s newest feedback comply with his revisiting on Tuesday of Ankara’s declare that Greek S-300 surface-to-air missiles stationed on Crete locked on to a Turkish plane west of Rhodes on Sunday, which he described as a “hostile act.” Athens has vehemently denied Turkey’s allegation, with Greek army sources assuring that the S-300s didn't lock on to Turkish F-16 fighter jets. Turkey plans to share proof of its allegations that the lock-on occurred. [Anadolu, Ekathimerini]
