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Erdogan’s ideologue is calling for a Greater Turkey, which includes northern Greece and parts of Bulgaria. Such a card is distributed by MP Metin Kyulyunk, it is a provocation for us. This is what the media in northern Greece write, reported 24rodopi.com.
Kyulyunk, who is a deputy in the Mejlis of the ruling Justice and Development Party, uploaded the map to his personal profile on Instagram and Twitter. It shows large areas in northern Greece, almost half of Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Armenia, as well as large areas in Georgia, Iraq, and Syria.
“In fact, party lawmaker Recep Tayyip Erdogan accompanies his tweets with Turkey’s provocative nationalist expansionist aspirations in Greece. Külünk even goes so far as to ask Greeks to remember the good times when they lived” fraternally “with the Turks in the Ottoman Empire, notes the newspaper O Chronos de Komotini. “I appeal to the Greek people, who have experienced the taste of Turkish justice and peace for 400 years before falling under imperialism: historians know well, before their leaders would prefer the slavery of imperialism, we lived in these lands in brotherhood for a long time, ”Kyulyunk commented in Greek.
The map accompanying the Turkish MP’s publication refers to the territories of the famous “National Oath” of 1925, which together with the stories about the “Blue Homeland” have become a dogma of Turkish foreign policy, writes O Chronos . The Greek media’s attention to the MP’s statements on Instagram and Twitter comes at a time of tension between Ankara and Athens. Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay has warned Greece that it risks a military conflict with Turkey if it expands its territorial waters to 12 nautical miles.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced in parliament on Wednesday that, in accordance with the provisions of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, Athens is expanding its territorial waters in the Ionian Sea from 6 to 12 nautical miles, and will has informed Italy and Albania. At the same meeting, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said that Greece will also expand its territorial waters from 6 to 12 nautical miles south of the Greek island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea in delimited areas as a result of a recent agreement with Egypt.
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